April 15, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



359 



"The culture areas of the early Iowa Indian," 

 Professor Charles R. Keyes, Cornell College. 



"The origin, of the prairies." Professor B. 

 Shimek, Department of Botany, University of 

 Iowa. 



"Prom Iowa to New Zealand and back," Rev. 

 L. M. Dorreen, Sioux City. 



' ' How we Americans select our President, ' ' Pro- 

 fessor L. E. Aylesworth, Department of Political 

 Science, University of Nebraska. 



"Problems of Jackson's administration," Pro- 

 fessor H. W. Caldwell, Department of History, 

 University of Nebraska. 



' ' Transmutation of elements, ' ' Professor M. E. 

 Graber, Department of Physics, Morningside Col- 

 lege. 



"The last stand of the Sioux," Hon. Doane 

 Robinson, State Historian, Pierre, S. D. 



"Unfinished Iowa," Professor O. E. Klingaman, 

 director of Extension Department, University of 

 Iowa. 



' ' History of American art, ' ' Professor Paul H. 

 Grummann, Dean of the Department of Fine Arts, 

 University of Nebraska. 



"The history of the Missouri," Professor Free- 

 man Ward, Department of Geology, University of 

 South Dakota. 



' ' Periods of architecture in America, ' ' W. L. 

 Steele, Arclhitect, Sioux City. 



"Becoming acqTiainted with the suns," Pro- 

 fessor G. D. Swezey, Department of Astronomy, 

 University of Nebraska. 



• ' Survey of preMstorio man, ' ' Professor H. G. 

 Campbell, Department of Philosophy, Morningside 

 College. 



"Our raw material," Professor Haittie Plum 

 Williams, Department of Sociology, University of 

 Nebraska. 



' ' Our native landscape of Mid- America, ' ' Mr. 

 Jens Jensen, Ravinia, 111. 



' ' Our local bird life, ' ' Professor C. S. Thoms, 

 Department of -Sociology, University of South Da- 

 kota. 



"Remaking the face of Iowa," Professor R. 

 B. Wylie, Department of Botany, University of 

 Iowa. 



COOPERATION OF NATIONAL HEALTH 

 AGENCIES 



Coordination of the work of voluntary na- 

 tional health agencies has been effected on 

 May 1, a number of these organizations will 

 take possession of two floors of the Penn 



Terminal Building, in Seventh Avenue at 

 Thirty-first Street, New York City. The Na- 

 tional Health Council was formed last fall by 

 organizations, each of which will retain full 

 autonomy. The new arrangement is in no 

 sense a merger, but an effort to bring the 

 organizations together for economy in over- 

 head expenses and for cooperation in health 

 programs. In addition to its work in coordi- 

 nating the efforts of private health agencies, 

 the council will maintain an inter-organiza- 

 tion information service; a health legislative 

 bureau, which will keep track of national and 

 State health legislation and keep council 

 members fully informed on it, and a statis- 

 tical bureau. It also expects to aid in. the 

 development of health educational material 

 and will foster periodic joint conferences 

 among members of the various participating 

 organizations. 



On the fifteenth floor of the Penn Terminal 

 Building will be the offices of the American 

 Social Hygiene Association, the National 

 Committee for Mental Hygiene, the National 

 Organization for Public Health Nursing co- 

 operating with the American Nurses' Associa- 

 tion and the League for Nursing Education, 

 and the National Tuberculosis Association. 



On the sixteenth floor there will be offices 

 for the American Public Health Association, 

 formerly in Boston; the Bureau of Social 

 Hygiene, the Child Health Organization of 

 America, probably the liaison office of the 

 United States Public Health Service, the Na- 

 tional Health Council, with the Common 

 Service Committee; the Maternity Center As- 

 sociation, the New York Diet Kitchen Asso- 

 ciation, the New York Community Service, 

 and probably the American Society for the 

 Control of Cancer. 



The Federal Board of Vocational Educa- 

 tion already has its New York offices in the 

 Penn Terminal Building, on the fourteenth 

 floor. 



Officers of the National Health Council, 

 which not only maintains its offices in New 

 York, but has a national headquarters office 

 in Washington, are: Chairman, Dr. Living- 

 ston Farrand; vice-chairman, Dr. Lee K. 



