NOVEMBEE 7, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



433 



WEDNESDAY 



Sir Robert Jones, F.R.C.S., Liverpool, Eng. : 

 "Stiff and flail joints." Discussion, Dr. Joseph 

 A. Blake, New York ; Dr. John L. Porter, Chicago ; 

 Dr. Joel E. Goldthwait, Boston. 



Dr. George W. Crile, Cleveland: "Surgical 

 treatment of exophthalmic goiter." Discussion, 

 Dr. J. Chalmers DaCosta, Philadelphia; Dr. Dean 

 Lewis, Chicago; Dr. Charles H. Mayo, Rochester, 

 Minn. 



Dr. Otto P. Geier, Cincinnati: "The physician 

 and surgeon in the industrial era." Discussion, 

 Dr. John J. Moorhead, New York; Dr. William 

 O'Neill Sherman, Pittsburgh; Dr. Jonathan M. 

 Wainwright, Scranton; R. M. Little, Safety In- 

 stitute of America, New York. 



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Dr. John B. Deaver, Philadelphia: "The acute 

 abdomen." Discussion, Dr. J. M. T. Finney, Bal- 

 timore; Dr. George E. Armstrong, Montreal. 



Major Gillies, R.A.M.C, Sidcup, Eng.: "Plastic 

 operations for facial burns. ' ' 



Dr. C. Jeff Miller, New Orleans: "Radio- 

 therapeutie and other methods for treatment of 

 cancer of the uterus." Discussion, Dr. James F. 

 Percy, Galesburg, 111, "Cautery"; Dr. Henry K. 

 Pancoast, Philadelphia, "X-ray"; Dr. Harold C. 

 Bailey, New York, "Radium." 



TEIDAT 



Convocation of the American College of Sur- 

 geons. 



Conferring of honorary fellowships. 



Presentation of candidates for fellowship. 



Presidential address. Dr. William J. Mayo, 

 Rochester, Minn. 



Fellowship address. Sir Arthur Bowlby, K.C.B., 

 K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., P.R.C.S., London. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The National Academy of Sciences, as al- 

 ready announced, will hold its autumn meet- 

 ing at Yale University, New Haven, on 

 November 10, 11 and 12. Professor Henry 

 A. Bumstead is chairman of the local com- 

 mittee, the other members being Professor 

 Lafayette B. Mendel and Professor Eoss J. 

 Harrison. 



In accordance with the vote taken at the 

 Baltimore meeting, the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science and the 



national scientific societies affiliated with it 

 will hold their annual meeting at St. Louis, 

 beginning on Monday, December 29. Dr. 

 Simon Flexner, director of the laboratories 

 of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search, will preside and the address of the 

 retiring president will be given by Professor 

 John M. Coulter, of the University of 

 Chicago. 



The next general meeting of the American 

 Chemical Society will be held at St. Louis, 

 Mo., with the St. Louis Section of the Amer- 

 ican Chemical Society, from April 13 to 16, 

 inclusive. 



The thirty-fifth annual meeting of the 

 Indian Academy of Science will be held on 

 Friday and Saturday, December 5 and 6, at 

 Indianapolis. 



Dr. Frank Schlesinger, of the Allegheny 

 Observatory, was elected president of the 

 American Astronomical Society at the recent 

 Ann Arbor meeting. Dr. Schlesinger suc- 

 ceeds the late Edward C. Pichering, who for 

 many years in succession had been elected to 

 this ofiice. 



Major General "W. C. Gorgas has been 

 elected an honorary member of the National 

 Academy of Medicine of Peru. 



PR0Ei5S0R Anton J. Carlson, chairman of 

 the department of physiology at the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, who was commissioned 

 captain in the Sanitary Corps in 1917, made 

 major in 1918, and lieutenant colonel in 1919, 

 has returned to his regular work at the uni- 

 versity. In the spring of 1919 Dr. Carlson 

 wjs called to Paris and made the director of 

 the division of the American Relief Adminis- 

 tration known as the Children's Relief Bu- 

 reau. He has since visted Poland, Czecho- 

 slovakia, Austria, Jugo-Slavia, Finland, the 

 Baltic states and parts of western Russia, 

 paying particular attention to putting the 

 child-welfare work on a national and per- 

 manent basis. 



Herbert E. Gregory, who for the past five 

 months has been serving as acting director of 

 the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, has re- 

 turned to take up his work at Yale University. 



