MEDALS AWARDED DRINKER AND SHAW FOR RESPIRATOR

Two medals, carrying with them an award of $1000, were presented to Philip Drinker and L. A. Shaw '09 of the Harvard School of Public Health, at a meeting of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia last Wednesday night.

The awards, which are the first John Scott medals for the current year, were given in recognition of the two men's joint conception an development of a new respiration, a box-like apparatus which provides artificial respiration for persons unable to breathe themselves either because of injury or of illness.