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Harvey Society. Officers-elect, 1913-14: President, Frederic 

 S. Lee; vice-president, W. G. MacCallum; treasurer, E. K. Dun- 

 ham; secretary, A. B. Wadsworth; additional memhers of the 

 Council — Graham Lusk, William H, Park and George B. Wallace. 



Illinois Water Supply Association. The fifth annual meet- 

 ing of the Illinois Water Supply Association was held at the Univ. 

 of 111., Mar. II and 12. The membership of the association consists 

 of waterworks engineers, superintendents, chemists, and others inter- 

 ested in obtaining and conserving an abundant supply of pure water. 

 Officers elected: President, C. H. Cobb (sup't, Kankakee Water- 

 works) ; first vice-president, H. M. Ely (sup't and manager, Dan- 

 ville Water Company) ; second vice-president, W. J. Spaulding 

 (commissioner of public property, Springfield) ; State vice-presi- 

 dent, V. E. MacDonald (sup't, Lincoln Water and Light Com- 

 pany) ; secretary and treasurer, Prof. Edward Bartow (director, 

 State Water Survey). 



Society of the Sigma Xi. Prof. John H. Long has been 

 elected vice-president of Sigma Xi and president of the North- 

 western chapter. Prof. A. P. Mathews is vice-president of the 

 Chicago chapter; Prof. F. G. Novy is president of the Michigan 

 chapter. 



Miscellaneous items. Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic. 

 On April 16, a new Psychiatric clinic was accepted by Johns Hop- 

 kins University as a gift from Henry Phipps, Esq. The clinic has 

 a capacity of ninety beds and includes a laboratory of internal 

 medicine in charge of Dr. Sidney R. Miller, where such investiga- 

 tions of a clinical and experimental nature will be made as may 

 seem of value for the betterment of the patient and the advance of 

 scientific knowledge. The opening exercises (April 16, 17, and 

 18) consisted chiefly of sixteen addresses : (16) Sir William Osler, 

 Specialism in general hospitals; Dr. Stewart Paton, The clinic and 

 the Community; (17) Prof. W. McDougall, The sources and direc- 

 tion of psycho-physical energy ; Prof. E. Bleider, Autistic thinking ; 

 Prof. A. Hoch, Personality and psychosis; Dr. L. F. Wells, The 

 personal factor in association reactions; Dr. F. W. Mott, A study 

 of the neuropathic inheritance in relation to insanity ; Prof. O. Rossi, 



