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ologists and in the new university medical building was elected 

 president of this society for the year 1906. He followed in that 

 office Edwin O. Jordan who on October 4, as an editor of the 

 Journal of Infectious Diseases, had thanked him for his " fine 

 monograph on the Bacterial Diseases of Plants " and said: "It is 

 this sort of work that gives dignity and standing to American 

 scholarship." Other officers elected were: F. P. Gorham, vice 

 president; S. C. Prescott, secretary-treasurer; W. T. Sedgwick, P 



delegate to the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science; and members of the council, Jordan, Vaughan, Flexner, 

 and Joseph McFarland. 



