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on the evenings of Sept. 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9, by Prof. Sir E. A. Schäfer, 

 pro f. of physiology, Univ. of Edinburgh, on Internal secretion in 

 general, The thyroparathyroid glands, The adrenal glandulär appa- 

 ratus, The pituitary body, The influence of internal on other secre- 

 tions. Prof. Schäfer also delivered at Stanford University a lec- 

 ture on Methods of resuscitation. 



Pasteur Inst, twenty-five years old. Owing to the renown 

 of Pasteur's studies of rabies, an international subscription, which 

 was opened by the Acad. des Sciences de Paris, soon amounted to 

 $500,000 and permitted the foundation, twenty-five years ago (Nov. 

 18, 1888), of the Institut Pasteur. At present the Inst, is a center 

 at once of scientific research, of higher instruction and of thera- 

 peutic treatment. It is divided into three principal sections : micro- 

 biologic, serotherapeutic, and biochemical. One of the sources of 

 superiority of the Pasteur Inst, consists in its independence. It was 

 founded and is carried on without ofiicial superintendence and hence 

 has a spirit of initiative and of adaptiveness which administrative 

 oversight scarcely permits to government establishments. 



ScHOOL FOR Public Health Officers. Harvard Univ. and 

 the Mass. Inst, of Tech, will cooperate in maintaining a Seh. for 

 Public Health Officers. Prof. M. J. Rosenau (Harvard) is the 

 director. The work of the school will be under his immediate 

 supervision, in association with Profs. W. T. Sedgwick and Geo. C. 

 Whipple as an administrative board. 



ApPRECIATION of the SERVICES OF THE COMMIS. ON ElECT. 



Shock. At the last annual meeting of the National Elect. Light 

 Assoc, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: 



Whereas, The Assoc. has accomplished a most creditable piece of 

 humanitarian work in the issuance of its rules on resuscitation from 

 electric shock used throughout the world and approved formally by 

 other industries, the national government and State boards; therefore, 

 be it 



Resolved, That the thanks of this association be extended to the 

 Med. Commis. for its splendid results, and also to the Amer. Med. 

 Assoc, without whose active Cooperation these laudable results could 

 never have been achieved. 



The work of this commis. is monumental and its effects will be 



