1913] General 4^5 



dren's Hospitals and Schools, Randall's Island; also clinical assist- 

 ant, N. Y. Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital and clinical 

 assistant, Neurological Institute. Dr. Bisch gave two lectures dur- 

 ing February, on Prevention of insanity, in the evening series of 

 lectures, under the auspices of the N. Y. City Board of Education. 

 — Dr. Josephine T. Berry (Washington State College), chief of the 

 department of home economics, and Louise McDanell (Washington 

 State College), assistant professor of foods and cookery, College 

 of Agric, Univ. of Minn. — Dr. C. C. Lieb, assistant professor of 

 pharmacology, Columbia Univ. (promotion). — Hermann J. Mnller, 

 assistant in zoology, Columbia Univ. — Dr. A. R. Rose, chemist, 

 Turck Research Laboratory, N. Y. City. — Dr. Hans Zinsser (Le- 

 land Stanford, Jr., Univ.), professor of bacteriology, Columbia 

 Univ. 



Conference on the prevention of Infant mortality. A Con- 

 ference on the prevention of infant mortality will be held in Caxton 

 Hall, Westminster, London, August 4-5, under the auspices of the 

 National Association for the Prevention of Infant Mortality and the 

 Weifare of Infancy. The Conference will convene immediately 

 before the opening of the International Medical Congress. Dr. 

 Philip Van Ingen is secretary of the American committee. 



Personalia. Dr. Carl L. Aisberg has been elected an honorary 

 member of Phi Lambda Upsilon by the Columbia chapter. — Dr. 

 Herbert S. Carter was one of the charter members of the N. Y. 

 Gastro-Enterological Society (p. 315). — Dr. John Howland de- 

 livered a Harvey lecture, Mar. 29, on The scientific basis for the 

 artificial feeding of infants. — Prof. Raymond C. Osburn has been 

 reelected president of the N. Y. Entomological Society. — Dr. Jacob 

 Rosenbloom has resigned his assistant professorship in biochemistry 

 at the Univ. of Pittsburgh (p. 324). — Dr. F. J. Seaver is one of 

 the spring lecturers at the N. Y. Botanical Garden, subject: The 

 scenery and flora of Colorado (May 3). — Prof. E. A. Spitzka and 

 Dr. D. C. Twichell have suffered from general nervous breakdown. 

 Dr. Spitzka has gone to Europe, and Dr. Twichell to the Pacific 

 Coast, to recuperate. Our best wishes attend them. — During the 

 fall of 191 2, Dr. William H. Welker carried out an investigation on 

 blood in Prof. John Marshall's laboratory at the University of Penn. 



