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of the commission by nomination of the National Electric Light 

 Association. 



Commission on typhoid fever. Commissioner Lederle, of New 

 York City, has appointed a commission of physicians and sanitary 

 experts to study the methods of the local Health Department in 

 handling typhoid and to suggest, if possible, improved methods. 

 Among those who were present at the first meeting of the com- 

 mission were Prof. William T. Sedgwick, Prof. George Whipple, 

 Prof. C.-E. A. Winslow, Dr. John Winters Brannan, Dr. Alex- 

 ander Lambert, Dr. Herbert D. Pease, and a number of representa- 

 tives of the New York Health Department. 



Advisory hoard of health. Dr. Joseph J. O'Connell, health 

 officer of the port of New York, has obtained the Cooperation of an 

 advisory board consisting of Drs. James Ewing, professorof pathol- 

 ogy in Cornell University Medical College; Dr. John H. Larkin, 

 associate professor of pathology in the College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons; Dr. Joshua M. Van Cott, professor of pathology and 

 bacteriology in Long Island College Hospital, and Dr. Francis 

 Carter Wood, head of the department of clinical pathology in the 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons. This advisory board will be 

 in complete control of the bacteriological and pathological depart- 

 ment of the port, on which the safety of the port against epidemic 

 diseases depends to a very large extent. 



American commissions on chemical nomenclature. — Inorganic 

 nomendature : James L. Howe, chairman; P. E. Browning, E. C. 

 Franklin, A. M. Patterson, Charles H, Herty, Owen Shinn and 

 Adolf Law Voge. — Organic nomenclature : M. T. Bogert, chair- 

 man ; Ira Remsen, W. A. Noyes, T. B. Johnson, J. B. Tingle, J. F. 

 Norris, M. Gomberg and C. S. Hudson. Both commissions will 

 coöperate with similar national bodies in other countries in the 

 revision of chemical nomenclature. The chairmen will be glad to 

 receive suggestions from American chemists. 



American Association of Refrigeration: Committee on State and 

 national investigations. Mary E. Pennington, chairman; A. V. 

 Staubenrauch, W. A. Stocking, Jr., R. M. Allen and H. J. Eustace. 

 The Third International Congress of Refrigeration will be held in 

 Chicago, in September, 191 3. 



