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ment's invitation to participate in the Fifteenth International Con- 

 gress on Hygiene and Demography in September, and lists of official 

 delegates have already been received f rom twenty-five. These lists 

 contain many names which are well known, both to the medical pro- 

 fession and to sanitarians in general, as foremost authorities in their 

 particular lines of endeavor. — Prof. Max Rubner, director of the 

 Physiological Institute of the University of Berlin, will deliver one 

 of the principal addresses. — The Fifteenth International Congress 

 on Hygiene is a powerful Instrument for permanently improving 

 sanitation in this country. The new and permanent impetus which 

 the congress may confidently be expected '^o give to progressive work 

 in every branch of hygiene in America is eagerly awaited by all who 

 are interested in civic welfare and public health, 



Association of specialists in digestive and metaholic diseases. 

 On May 27 a meeting for the Organization of specialists in digestive 

 and metabolic diseases was held at Hamburg, in which seventy 

 German specialists participated. It was decided to hold meetings 

 yearly, but it was expressly agreed that no Separation from the 

 Congress for Internal Medicine is intended. Drs. Ewald of Berlin, 

 Schmidt of Halle, Boas of Berlin, Weintraud of Wiesbaden, Starck 

 of Carlsruhe and Pariser of Homburg will be the first executive com- 

 mittee. The initial scientific meeting will be held after the annual 

 Session of the Naturforscherkongress in September, 19 13, at Hom- 

 burg. 



Buildings, funds and general equipment. Buildings. An 

 anonymous donor has given 10,000 guineas for the erection of a 

 physiological laboratory at the medical school of University College 

 of South Wales and Monmouthshire. — An addition is being made 

 to the agricultural building of the University of Illinois by enclosure 

 of the court. The structure will be one story high, with cement 

 floors, and will provide reading room, class rooms, museum, etc. — 

 The University of Missouri is erecting a building for the depart- 

 ment of chemistry, mainly for agricultural chemistry, at a cost of 

 $60,000. This building has been named Schweitzer Hall in memory 

 of Prof. Paul Schweitzer who was for nearly forty years connected 

 with the department. — The new medical laboratories for the two 

 years' course in medicine at the University of North Carolina were 



