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Chemical Co. of America; Dr. A. C. Langmuir, Chairman New 

 York Section of the Amer. Chem. Soc. ; Dr. Geo. A. Prochazka of 

 Central Dye Stuff and Chemical Co. ; Dr. Geo. D. Rosengarten 

 of Powers, Weightman and Rosengarten; Dr. A. H. Sabin of 

 National Lead Co. ; Dr. Charles L. Parsons, U. S. Bureau of Mines ; 

 Mr. E. C. Uhlig, Secretary, Brooklyn Union Gas Co. 



MeMBERSHIP of the com MITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL DISEASES, 



New York Association for Labor Legislation: Prof. H. R. Seager, 

 President American Association for Labor Legislation, Chairman; 

 Prof. S. McC. Lindsay, President N. Y. Association for Labor Leg- 

 islation, ex officio; Dr. C. L. Dana, Chairman Committee on Public 

 Hygiene, N. Y. Academy of Medicine, ex officio; Dr. J. B. Andrews, 

 Secretary American Association for Labor Legislation; Profs. 

 Charles Baskerville and C. E.-A. Winslow, College of the City of 

 New York; Drs. Warren Coleman, J. H. Huddieston, J. Alex. 

 Miller, W. G. Thompson and L. R. Williams, N. Y. Academy of 

 Medicine; Messrs. M. M. Dawson, Actuary; L. W. Hatch, Statis- 

 tician Department of Labor State of New York; F. L. Hoffman, 

 Statistician Prudential Life Insurance Co. ; and Mr. Paul Kenna- 

 day, Secretary, N. Y. Association for Labor Legislation. 



Meetings. American Medical Association. The sixty-third 

 annual Session of the American Medical Association was held at 

 Atlantic City, June 3-7. The retiring president, Dr. Abraham 

 Jacobi, delivered an address on "The best means of combating 

 Infant mortality." — " In view of the very superior excellence of his 

 research exhibit on experimental nephritis," a gold medal was 

 awarded, by the Committee on Awards, to Prof. Martin H. Fischer. 

 — At a Session of the Section on Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 

 the following resolution was adopted : That the Chairman appoint 

 a committee of three to draw up resolutions to be presented by the 

 representative of the Section on Pharmacology and Therapeutics to 

 the House of Delegates, to attempt to secure legislation forbidding 

 Patents of materia medica articles and permitting patents only of 

 process of manufacture; and to request the manufacturers to act in 

 Cooperation with the Association in this necessary legislation. 



Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography. 

 Thirty-two foreign countries have accepted the federal govern- 



