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Oral Surg., is chair., includes Drs. W. S. Bainbridge, William Carr, 

 H. Holbrook Curtis, Thomas Darlington, W. C. Dean, Francis Dela- 

 field, E. P. Fowler, Wm. J. Gies, S. S. Goldwater, V. H. Jackson, 

 Ernest Lederle, O. V. Limerick, F. P. Miller and H. D. Pease. 



FoR UNIFORMITY IN FOOD AND DRUGS LAWS. The Chamber of 

 Commerce, U. S. A., a body composed of repr. from about 600 

 local boards of trade, Chambers of commerce, and trade assoc. 

 throughout the U. S., has taken up the study of uniform food and 

 drug regulation. For this purpose a special commit. was appointed in 

 July ; its first meeting was held in Washington, Oct. 8. The commit. 

 is composed of W. M. McCormick, Baltimore; A. J, Porter, Niagara 

 Falls; John A. Green, Cleveland; B. L. Murray, and T. F. Whit- 

 marsh, New York. 



OfFicers and investigators^ Sprague Inst. During the year 

 1914 the following persons have been connected with or have done 

 work under the auspices of the Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Inst. : 

 Director: H. G. Wells. — Memhers: R. T. Woodyatt, Samuel Am- 

 berg, Lydia M. DeWitt, E. A. Graham, H. F. Helmholz, Maud Slye, 

 H. J. Corper, E. J. Witzemann. — Fellows: Kaethe M. Dewey, W. 

 B. McClure, F. W. Gaarde, W. D. Sansum, Grace Meigs, L. W. 

 Sauer, A. B. Schwartz, W. H. O. Hoffmann, G. H. Coleman. — 

 Assistants: Hope Sherman, Edith Farrar, Mary E. Maver. — Vol- 

 untary associates, recipients of aid from or users of the facilities 

 of the Inst.: Frank Billings, P. S. Chancellor, Harriet F. Holmes, 

 E. F. Hirsch, J. H. Lewis, G. T. Caldwell, H. L. Huber, E. W. 

 Schwartze, J. J. Moore, E. R. Hayhurst, C. R. Spicer. 



New processes: gasoline, benzene, toluene. Sec'y of the 

 Interior Lane has announced the discovery, by Dr. W. F. Rittman 

 (ehem. engineer in the Bureau of Mines, working at Columbia 

 Univ.), of two chemical processes, one of which, it is claimed, will 

 greatly increase the supply of gasoline, while the other may make 

 the U. S. independent in regard to materials necessary for the dye 

 industry and the manufacture of high explosives. Application has 

 been made by Dr. Rittman, on behalf of the federal gov., for patents 

 of these processes, in order to prevent monopoly in their use, the 

 patents to be dedicated to the Amer. people. 



Prohibition. I have been in the actuarial profession for over 

 20 years, and I have had the opportunity of studying not only the 



