Mawr Coll.), prof. of physiol.; head of newly created dep't of physiol.

Univ. of Berlin, Rudolf-Virchow Hosp.: Prof. Julius Wohlgemuth (assis., Path. Inst.), direc., Chem.-physiol. Div.

Univ. of Cal., Med. Sch. : Dr. T. B. Robertson, prof. of biochem.; head of newly created dep't of biochem. and pharmacol.

Univ. of Cambridge: Dr. S. W. Cole (Trinity Coll.), univ. lect., med. chem.

Univ. of Chicago: Dr. E. O. Jordan, ch'r'n, commit. on sanitation and hygiene.

Utah Agric. Coll. : Dr. E. G. Peterson, pres't.

Lectures and addresses. ENDOWED. Harrington Lects., Univ. of Buffalo Med. Sch.; May 30, 31: Dr. M. J. Rosenau, Anaphylaxis. Harvard Med. Sch.; Cutter Lect., Apr. 26: Dr. Simon Flexner, Finer adjustments of immunity reactions to recovery from infection.

Jerome Cochran Lect., Ala. Med. Assoc., Mobile; Apr. 18: Dr. H. A. Kelly, Radium therapy in the treatment of disease.

Royal Inst'n: The day lectures after Easter included Prof. C. S. Sherrington, Harvey and Pavlov; Dr. T. M. Lowry, Optical research and chem. progress; Prof. W. H. Bragg, X-rays and crystals (Tyndall lect.); Prof. C. G. Barkla, X-rays.

MISCELLANEOUS. Amer. Chem. Soc., N. Y. Sect. Dr. P. A. Levene was one of the speakers in the formal discussion of "Univ. and Industry," at a meeting in the Chem. Club, Apr. 7.

Annual Congress in Med. Educ., Chicago, Feb. 7: Prof. F. S. Lee, Relation of the laboratory courses to the work of the clinical years.

Chem. Soc. (London), Feb. 3: Dr. W. H. Bragg, Recent work on X-rays and crystals, and its bearing on chemistry.

Coll. of the City of N. Y.; May 12: Dr. J. P. Atkinson, Food poisons.

Columbia Univ.; Phi Lambda Upsilon Lect., Apr. 5: Dr. Virgil Coblentz, Influence of the war on our supply of drugs and medicinal chemicals.

Franklin Inst.; May 17: Prof. T. W. Richards, Fundamental properties of the elements.

Marquette Univ., Mar. 16: Dr. A. S. Loevenhart, Biological aspects of oxidation. Apr. 19: Dr. W. J. Meek, Physiology of adrenalin.

Menominee, Mich.; Apr. 10: Dr. V. C. Vaughan, Influence of disease on civilization.

New England Assoc. of Chem. Teachers, 55th meeting; Harvard Univ., Feb. 12: G. L. Wendt, Radium and its contribution to chem.

N. Y. Acad. of Med.: Symposium on alcohol, Apr. 6.-Dr. F. G. Benedict, Influence of alc. on man, with special reference to psychol. effects.-Dr. R. C. Cabot, Relation of alc. to personal efficiency. Discussion: By Drs. Haven Emerson, F. S. Lee, B. Sachs, C. R. Stockard, C.-E. A. Winslow.

N. Y. Acad. of Sci.; Sect. of Biol., May 8: Dr. W. C. Clark, Some phases of bone growth in the adult.

Racine Co. Med. Soc., Ill.; Mar. 30: Dr. F. E. Simpson, Radium and its uses in the treatment of cancer and other skin diseases.

School lunch problem: Second Inter-municipal conf.; Boston, Mass., May 5 and 6.-Sarah L. Arnold: Popular education as to diet.-P. G. Stiles: Application of dietary standards to the needs of the normal child.-W. E. Brown: Public health and food education.

Univ. of Neb., Sigma Xi; Feb. 12: Dr. H. L. Shantz, Water as a factor in plant growth.

Univ. of Wis., Mar. 16: Dr. L. M. Warfield, Essentials of diagnosis in internal medicine.

Wash. Acad. of Sci.; Mar. 23: Dr. L. H. Baekeland, Chem. in relation to war. Dr. E. F. DuBois, Basal food requirement of man.-Apr. 14: Prof. Graham Lusk, Nutrition and food economics. -Apr. 21: Dr. E. B. Forbes, Mineral metabolism of animals.'Apr. 28: Dr. Carl Voegtlin, Relation of vitamines to nutrition in health and disease.

Washington Irving High Sch. (N. Y. City); Mar. 24: Dr. H. W. Wiley, Relation of dental hygiene to public health.

Wellesley Coll.; Mar. 14: Dr. F. G. Benedict, Living without food for 31 days.

Winnebago Co. Med. Soc., Rockford, Ill.; Apr. 11: Dr. E. Η. Ochsner, Biochem. of topical applications.

Yale Univ., Sigma Xi; Mar. 1: Prof. C. R. Stockard, Experimental studies on the influence of alcohol in development and inheritance. Mar. 18: Prof. J. McK. Cattell, Scientific research as a profession.

Prizes. ADAMACHI PRIZE, Roumanian Acad. of Sci.: Drs. A. Babes and V. Busila (Bucharest), for a comprehensive report on pellagra in Roumania.

ELLEN RICHARDS RESEARCH PRIZE. The Naples Table Assoc. for Promoting Lab. Research by Women announces the offer of an 8th prize of $1,000 for the best thesis written by a woman, on a scientific subject. This thesis must embody new observations and new conclusions based on independent lab. research in biol. (including psychol.), chem. or phys. science. The theses offered must be in the hands of the ch'r'n of the commit. on the prize, Dr. Lilian Welsh, Goucher Coll., Balt., Md., before Feb. 25, 1917. The title page of each manuscript must bear an assumed name; and the writer must send with her manuscript, a sealed envelope containing her application blank and superscribed with her assumed name. The B'd of Examiners, for 1916-17, are Drs. W. H. Howell (J. Hopkins Med. Sch.), E. P. Kohler (Harvard Univ.), and Henry Crew, (Northw. Univ.). In April, 1911, the prize was named the Ellen Richards Research Prize, in recognition of the devoted service of Mrs. Richards as ch'r'n of the commit. on the prize from its establishment in 1900.

Paris Acad. of Sci. Proposed prizes for 1917: Chem. - JECKER PR. (10,000 f.), for work leading to progress in org. chem.; CAHOURS PR. (3,000 f.), for encouragement of young chemists who have already published good work; MONTYON PR. (2,500 f.), for a means of rendering an art or calling less unhealthy; HOUZEAU PR. (700 f.), to reward a promising young chemist; BERTHELOT PR. (500 f.), for researches in chem. synthesis. Med. and surg.MONTYON PR. (2,500 f.), for work most useful in the art of healing; BARBIER PR. (2,000 f.), for a valuable discovery in surg., med., or pharmaceut. science, or in botany in relation to med.; BREAUT PR. (100,000 f.), for a radical cure for Asiatic cholera. Physiol.MONTYON PR. (750 f.), for work in exper. physiol.; POURAT PR. (1,000 f.), for work on the relation between combined sugar and protein of the blood.

RAYMOND HORTON-SMITH PRIZE (Cambridge): Dr. E. Mellanby, for a thesis on Cause and treatment of diarrhea and vomiting in children.

The 20th Cent. Club, Detroit, Mich., offers three prizes of $20, $10, and $5, resp., for the best three stories, containing between 2,000 and 5,000 words, on the effects of cigaret smoking. The stories will furnish material for a volume of anti-cigaret literature for use in school libraries. All stories in competition must be sent to the ch'r'n of the Anti-Cigaret Commit., Mrs. O. E. Angstman, 277 Putnam Ave., Detroit, Mich., by June 15, 1916.

Medal. NICHOLS MEDAL, Amer. Chem. Soc., N. Y. Sect.: Dr. C. S. Hudson, in recognition of his work on carbohydrates.

Journalistic. NEW JOURNALS. Jour. of Bacteriology: Official organ, Soc. of Amer. Bacteriologists. Ed.-in-ch., C.-E. A. Winslow; man'g ed., A. P. Hitchens; with 22 "advis. editors" and 31 "abstr. editors." Bi-monthly: subscr. price, $5.00 per vol.

The Phila. Sect. of the Amer. Chem. Soc. is publishing a monthly paper, "The Catalyst."

Soil Science: "Devoted to problems in soil physics, soil chem., and soil biology." Ed.-in-ch., Dr. J. G. Lipman. Among the group of internat. collab. are Drs. F. J. Alway, H. J. Conn, E. J. Russell and Oswald Schreiner. Monthly: subscr. price, $3.00 per vol.

PHYSIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS. See page 252.

JOUR. BIOL. CHEM. Dr. C. J. West has been elected a member of the b'd of ed. of the Jour. of Biol. Chem. His service began with the Feb. issue.

Fellowships. Columbia Univ.: A gift of $2,400, from Mrs. F. S. Coolidge, for the maintenance of research fellowships in med. Harvard Med. Sch.: Drs. W. R. Ohler, E. F. Walsh, J. A. Wentworth, fellows in chem.

The Mary Putnam Jacobi Fellowship has been awarded to Dr. Mildred Clark (Johns Hopkins, 1914), who will use the fell. for research in med. bacteriol. in Dr. T. C. Janeway's dep't at Johns Hopkins Hosp.

Mellon Inst., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Indust. fellowships in operation Jan. 1, 1916:

28: FERTILIZER.-$2,500 a yr. for 3 yr.; bonus, $5,000. Fellow, E. S. Bishop, M.A., Univ. of Neb. (Jan. 5, '14.)

34: FATTY OILS. -$2,100 a yr. for 2 yr. Fellow, L. M. Liddle, Ph.D., Yale. (July 1, '14.)

48: BREAD.-$6,500 a yr. for 2 yr.; bonus, $10,000. Fellows: H. A. Kohman, Ph.D., Univ. of Kan., senior fellow; T. M. Godfrey, B.S., Univ. of Kan., and L. H. Ashe, B.S., Univ. of Pittsb. (Mar. 1, '15.)

49: CANDY.-$1,800 for 1 yr. Fellow, C. A. Neusbaum, A.Β., Wabash Coll. (July 1, '15.)

51: YEAST.-$2,800 a yr. for 2 yr. Fellow, Ruth Glasgow, M.S., Univ of Ill.; scholar, T. A. Frazier, Univ. of Pittsb. (Sept. 1, '15.)

55: PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS. - $13,000 for 1 yr. Fellows: J. R. Watson, B.Sc., London Univ.; R. A. Dunphy, Ph.D., Univ. of Pittsb.; H. W. Huntley, M.A., Univ. of Wis.; J. B. Churchill, B.S., Harvard; R. N. Mullikin, Ph.D., Johns Hopk.; E. P. Wightman, Ph.D., Johns Hopk.; R. W. Harris. M.S., Ohio State Univ. (July 7, '15.)

56: SOAP.-$2,000 for 1 yr. Fellow, B. H. Nicolet, Ph.D., Yale. (June 26, '15.)

57: GLUE.-$1,800 for 1 yr. Fellow, R. C. Schuey, B.S., Univ. of Kan. (July 1, '15.)

63: PEAS.-$1,200 for 1 yr. Fellow, E. H. Taylor, M.S., Univ. of Ill. (Nov. 1, '15.)

64: Petroleum. -$10,000 for 1 yr.; bonus, $10,000. Fellows: B. T. Brooks, Ph.D., Univ. of Gött., sr. fellow; I. W. Humphrey, B.S., Univ. of Kan.; Harry Essex, Ph.D., Univ. of Gött.; D. F. Smith, M.S., Univ. of Wis. (Sept. 1, '15.)

65: COMPOUND FATS. - $2,800 for I yr. Fellow, E. O. Rhodes, M.S., Univ. of Kan.; scholar, R. L. Wharton, Univ. of Pittsb. (Oct. 1, '15.)

66: GLYCERO-PHOSPHATES. - $1,500 for 1 yr.; bonus, 10 percent of profits. Fellow, F. F. Rupert, Ph.D., Mass. Inst. Tech. (Oct. 1, '15.)