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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



The Main Building and 1'hysiulouical Labukatoky Buiiding of the Western 

 Reseeve Medical ScrotiL, Cleveland. The main building is of brown stone, and 

 comprises four floors and a basement. It contains two amphitheaters and the Labo- 

 ratories of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Pathology and Bacteriology and 

 Pharmacology. The building was first occupied in 1887 and cost .$240,000. The 

 Physiological Laboratory was built in 1898. It houses the Laboratories of Physiology 

 and Physiological Chemistry with private research rooms and work shops. 



but very much remains to be discov- 

 ered. A deeper insight into problems 

 of this kind may be obtained if investi- 

 gators at the same time as they are 

 working at the subject from the experi- 

 mental standpoint in the laboratory, 

 are in a position to sttidy clinical cases 

 of the disease in the hospital, and this 

 it is planned to do in the H. K. Gush- 

 ing Laboratory. 



THE CONVOCATION WEEK MEET- 

 INGS AT THE JOHNS HOPKINS 



UNH ERSITY 

 The scientific meetings to be held at 

 Baltimore during the week following 

 that in which Christmas falls promise 

 to be of very great interest. In addi- 

 tion to the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, with its 

 eleven sections covering the entire field 

 of the natural and exact sciences, no 

 less than twenty-five independent socie- 



ties will meet in affiliation. These 

 national societies include those de- 

 voted to mathematics, physics, chem- 

 istry, geology, geography, paleontology, 

 physiology, astronomy, bacteriology, 

 zoology, entomology, botany, ps\'cliol- 

 ogy, philosophy and anthropology. 

 The officers and members of the Amer- 

 ican Association, of the American So- 

 ciety of Naturalists and of these special 

 societies, are practically identical with 

 the productive scientific men of the 

 country. It is likely tliat fully two 

 thousand of tlicm will l)e at Baltimore 

 and that the number of papers read 

 will exceed five htmdred. 



While the special scientific societies 

 and their technical programs are prob- 

 ably the chief factors promoting and 

 guiding the advancement of science in 

 this country, a large meeting of scien- 

 tific men has certain other advantages, 

 the most imitortant of which are per- 



