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 proceedings of the American Association for the 

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Vol. LVI August 11, 1922 No. 1441 



CONTENTS 



The Extension of the Full-time Plan of 

 Teaching to Clinical Medicine: Pkofessoe 

 Florence E. Sabin 149 



Preliminary Beport on American Bacterio- 

 logical Stains: H. J. Conn 156 



George Bruce Halsted: Peofessoe Aethue 

 M. HUMPHEEYS 160 



Scientific Events: 



The Foulerton Professorship and Stude^it- 

 ship ; Appointments and Promotions at the 

 Johns Hopkins University; Dedication of 

 the University of Colorado Mountain Lab- 

 oratory; Program on Conservation of the 

 Section of Social and Economic Sciences of 

 the American Association 101 



Scientific Notes and News 164 



University and Educational Notes 167 



Discussion and Correspondence: 



The Spectrum of Helium in the Extreme 

 Ultra-Violet: Peofessor Theodoee Ly-, 

 MAN. The California Poppy: Dr. David 

 Starr Jordan. The Temperatures of Me- 

 teorites: Professor Arthur Tabor Jones. 

 The Bureau of Standards: Professor 

 A. G. Webstee 167 



Special Arti<:les: 



Basal Glauconite and Phosphate Beds: De. 

 Marcus I. Goldman 171 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: 



Section E — Geology and Geography : Peo- 

 FESSOE E. S. MoOEE. Section Q — Educa- 

 tion: Peofessoe Bird T. Baldwin 174 



THE EXTENSION OF THE FULL- 

 TIME PLAN OF TEACHING TO 

 CLINICAL MEDICINE! 



Tou have done me the honor to invite me to 

 speak to your graduating class at your eom- 

 mencement exercises. Let me tell you how 

 much I appreciate it, and how glad I am of 

 the opportunity to affirm my profound faith 

 in the special fitness of women for the medical 

 profession. As practising physicians, the 

 large numbers of successful women, of whom 

 your city and your school have bad many con- 

 spicuous examples, make the question of their 

 value a closed subject. There are perhaps 

 fewer women working on the scientific side of 

 medicine, but no one would now advocate elim- 

 inating the work of a Madame Curie, because 

 of a prejudice against the sex of the worker. 

 In relation to education, may I call your atten- 

 tion to the fact that yesterday the Johns Hop- 

 kins University honored a woman, Miss M. 

 Carey Thomas, retiring president of Bryn 

 Mawr College, because she is one of the out- 

 standing educators of our day. She has a rela- 

 tion to medical education because her vision 

 and her profound faith in the value of the 

 college training as a preparation for medical 

 education had raised the standards of medical 

 education in this country. Thus it seems to 

 me that the question of gi\'ing women a med- 

 ical training has now been settled, but there is 

 one place where women who are now studying 

 may increase rathei- than decrease the preju- 

 dice against giving women adequate chances 

 for a medical education, namely, if the women 

 who have been adequately trained so lightly 

 give up all use of that training when they 

 marry. English women have been able to 

 carry on the practice of medicine after mar- 



1 Address delivered at the seventieth com- 

 mencement exercises of the Woman's Medical 

 College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



