“ Nature reports that one of the great captains of industry of Scotland has specially organized and equipped an engineering factory for the employment exclusively of educated women of good social standing instead of the usual woman factory worker, and with the fixed determination to carry on operations permanently under those conditions, the work to be taken up being that associated with the manufacture of internal-combustion motors. ”

“ The case of medical students who have not advanced so far has recently engaged the attention of the Ministers of War and of Education, and of the General Staff, with the result that arrangements have been made by which medical students from the ranks may attend special courses of lectures and eventually obtain credit for them when they seek a civil degree in medicine. ”

“ For the purpose of this instruction a man who had on or before enlistment completed two years of medical study, and who can within thirty-six months complete his professional curriculum and obtain his medical degree or license, is to be regarded as a third-year medical student. Students who do not pass the professional examination in anatomy and physiology within six months of resuming study will be recalled to the colors, and a student transferred to the reserve, unless he resumes his medical studies and enrolls in an Officers' Training Corps, will be recalled. ”

“ At the request of the Medical Research Committee of Great Britain, Professor W. M. Bayliss last August visited various centers in France, to discuss with workers there special problems in the field and the application to them of methods devised in the laboratory. Acting upon suggestions made to it from France the committee appointed a special investigation committee for the purposes of further combined study of shock and the better correlation of laboratory and clinical observations. ”

“ The announcement is also made that the staff of the department of mining of the University of Toronto have discovered a process by which low-grade concentrates of molybdenite can be made at little cost. Molybdenite is used for hardening and toughening steel, and it is most useful in he manufacture of high-speed tools. Quebec is a larger producer, but the need for molybdenite is great, and the new process will, it is stated, render available the deposits of low-grade molybdenum ore which have been discovered in Manitoba and British Columbia. ”