246 



SCIENCE 



[Vol. LVI, No. 1444 



of tropical diseases and of preventive medicine. 



No better place could have been selected than 

 Panama City, the gateway betvi'een the Atlantic 

 and the Pacific, ■»ihere General Gorgas' well- 

 planned and executed work made possible the 

 building of the Panama Canal. 



It is hardly necessary to call the attention of 

 the medical profession to the far-reaching effects 

 of General Gorgas ' work on the welfare of the 

 people of the whole world, especially in tropical 

 and seniitropical climates, and in all places sub- 

 ject to the inroads of infectious disease. 



We of the medical profession remember him as 

 our surgeon general during the early part of tiie 

 "World War. We remember his prompt recogni- 

 tion of the necessity of bringing into active serv- 

 ice large numbers of physicians and surgeons 

 from civilian life. We remember his genial and 

 kindly nature, his high character, and his stead- 

 fast effort directed toward the organization and 

 equipment of the medical corps of the Army. We 

 remember the patriotic response. We remember 

 him as a great sanitary officer, to whom we wish 

 to pay a lasting tribute. 



A central committee has been fomied, with Ad- 

 miral Braisted, retired, ex-president of the Amer- 

 ican Medical Association, as its president. The 

 American Medical Association has appointed a 

 committee of three to work in accord with the 

 central committee, and through its members this 

 appeal is made to the American medical profes- 

 sion. 



The plan is to build at Panama an institute 

 for the study of tropical and infections diseases, 

 with a hospital, laboratories, departments for re- 

 search and all other facilities required in an insti- 

 tute of this diaracter, erected and administered 

 according to the most progressive, modern ideals. 

 The Panamanian government, owing to the far- 

 sighted, philanthropic vision of President Porras, 

 has donated the great Santo Tomas Hospital, and 

 also the ground on which it is proposed immedi- 

 ately to construct the buildings as they have been 

 described. Dr. Strong has been appointed the 

 scientific director. 



In conjunction with this work in Panama, there 

 will be established in Tuscaloosa, Ala., the Gorgas 

 School of Sanitation for the purpose of training 

 country health workers, sanitary engineers and 

 public health nurses, especially educated to deal 

 with the problems peculiar to the southern states. 

 An endowment of six and one half million 

 dollars will be required to enable the institute to 

 carry on the work according to the plans which 

 have been formed,, 



The Eepublic of Panama has demonstrated its 

 sympathetic and practical interest in this enter- 

 prise mth splendid liberality. The physicians of 

 our country, and especially the members of the 

 American Medical Association, surely mil not 

 disregard the memory of a former president, and 

 will seize the opportunity to make in this respect 

 a contribution of which they will be proud. 



The campaign for funds is to be international. 

 A large response is expected from North, Central 

 and South America, since the nations of these 

 countries have been the chief beneficiaries of the 

 labors of General Gorgas. It is fitting that his 

 'OO-workers of the Aonerican medical profession 

 should be requested to respond generously to this 

 appeal. It is hoped that every member of the 

 American Medical Association will make as liberal 

 a subscription as possible. Any sum will 'be 

 gratefulty received. Checks should be drawn to 

 the order of the "Gorgas Fund" and should be 

 mailed to the American Medical Association, 535 

 North Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. E. T. Whittaker, professor of mathe- 

 maties in the University of Edinburgh, has 

 been elected a foreign member of the Acea- 

 demia dei Lineei, Rome. 



Professor W. Roux, of Halle, has 'been 

 elected honorary member of the Academy of 

 Medicine at Turin. Professor Roux has pre- 

 sented to the Rous Foundation for researcli on 

 the mechanics of development the 30,000 marks 

 recently sent him by the St. Louis Emergency 

 Relief Committee for German and Austrian 

 Universities. 



Professor A. N. Whitehead, of Cambridge, 

 has been elected president of the Aristotelian 

 Society for the coming session. He will de- 

 liver his inaugural address on November 6. 



Dr. N. Bishop Haeman, of London, has heen 

 elected a corresponding member of the Cher- 

 bourg Scientific Society, in recognition of his 

 researches into the origin of the facial muscu- 

 lature. 



William Schaus, of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, has been elected an honorary member 

 of the Entomological Society of Brazil in 

 recognition of his extensive work on the butter- 

 flies and moths of Brazil. 



Postmaster General Hubert Work, for- 



