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C. A. Lovy; sec.-treas., /. S. Hills; bibliogr., A. C. True; exec, com- 

 mit., W. O. Thompson, H. J. Waters, Brown Ayres, W. H. Jordan, 

 H, L. Russell. 



BiOL. Soc. OF Wash. Pres., Paul Bartsch; vice-p., 'A. D. Hop- 

 kins, W. P. Hay, J. N. Rose, Mary J. Rathbun; rec. sec, M. M. 

 Lyon, Jr.; cor, sec, W. S. McAtee; treas., W. W. Cooke; members 

 of Council, Hugh M. Smith, Vernon Bailey, Wm. Palmer, N. Hollis- 

 ter, J. W. Gidley. 



BoTAN. Soc. OF Amer. Pres., J. M. Coulter; vice-p., R. A. 

 Harper; sec, H. H. Bartlett; treas., Arthur Hollick; councilor, W. 

 F. Ganong. 



Federation of Amer. Societies for Exp. Biol. See page 179. 



Mass. Public Health Assoc. Pres., W. T. Sedgwick. 



Soc. of Amer. Bacteriologists. Pres., D. H. Bergey; vice-p., 

 John Weinzirl; sec.-treas., A. P. Hitchens; Council, K. F. Kellerman, 

 W. A. Stocking, Jr., R. E. Buchanan, H. J. Conn; deleg. to Amer. 

 Assoc. Adv. Sei., M. J. Rosenau. 



Miscellaneous items. Fellowships. Wesley Memorial Hosp., 

 Chicago, has established five fellowships to be given yearly to grad- 

 uates in med. who aim to solve important problems applying to 

 clinical med. and surg., or the specialties. The work will be done 

 under a Joint board selected from the staff of Wesley Hosp. and of 

 the lab. dep's of the Northwest. Univ. Med. Seh. ; the clinical work 

 to be done in the hosp., and the lab. work in the lab. of the Med. 

 Seh. The fellowships are open to any graduate in med. The re- 

 cipient of the fellowship will be required to devote his entire time 

 during the first year, at least, to investigation. 



LuBRiCANT FOR STOPCOCKs, ETC. An excellcnt lubricant for 

 use with burette stopcocks, desiccators, etc., can be made by melting 

 together equal parts of paraffin and vaselin. The paraffin gives 

 body to the mixture, which is therefore superior to vaselin alone, 

 especially in places where high temperatures prevail. 



Protest against tax on dentifrices. A commit. of N. Y. 

 physicians and dentists has been formed to petition Congress to re- 

 voke the war tax on dentifrices, on the ground that such a tax is 

 a severe blow to the work in progress, under the auspices of state 

 and municipal public health agencies, in behalf of oral hygiene. The 

 commit., of which Dr. H. L. Wheeler of the Coli, of Dental and 



