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provide a continuous and economieal supply of 

 eleotrieity for lighting, traction and heating, re- 

 duce the congestion of railway trafiie by diminish- 

 ing the demand for coal, and generally increase 

 prosperity and confer public benefits more than 

 sufficient to counterbalance any interference with 

 agriculture, fishing righits, or the pleasure of 

 visitors to the Moor. 



The general, and especially the local, public is 

 not qualified to weigh the rival claims, and as 

 things now stand Parliament must proceed by the 

 old, cumbrous, and very costly method of hearing 

 eloquent advocates and technical experts on all the 

 points raised. 



At present the whole question of the water re- 

 Sources, and especially of the water-power of the 

 British Isles is being investigated by a committee 

 of the Board of Trade, and on this account Parlia- 

 ment may be inclined to postpone the considera- 

 tion of private bills dealing vrith water, if not of 

 special urgency, until the committee has reported. 

 There are few areas in England where an unused 

 gathering-ground exists at an altitude allowing of 

 the development of water-power, and it may well 

 be considered inexpedient to aHoeate them finally 

 before a hydrometric survey has been carried out 

 to enable the available power and its cost to be 

 calculated on a sure basis before work is com- 

 menced. 



MEDICAL EDUCATION 



The Council on Medical Education of the 

 American Medical Association, the Associa- 

 tion of American Medical Colleges and the 

 Federation of State Medical Boards of the 

 United States will hold a congress on medical 

 education and licensure at Chicago on March 

 1, 2 and 3. The program is as follows: 



MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1920 



Morning Session, 9:30 A.M. 



Introductory Remarks by Dr. Arthur Dean 

 Bevan, chairman of the Council on Medical Edu- 

 cation, Chicago. 



Dr. George Blumer, president of the Association 

 of American Medical Colleges, New Haven, Conn. 



Dr. David A. Strickler, president of the Federa- 

 tion of State Medical Boards, Denver, Colo. 



' ' Present status of medical education, ' ' Dr. N. 

 P. Colwell, secretary of the Council on Medical 

 Education, Chicago. 



Symposium on "The needs and future of med- 

 ical education," Dr. George E. Vincent, president 

 of the Rockefeller Foundation, New York City. 



Dr. Ray Lyman Wiibur, president of Leland 

 Stanford University, Stanford University, Calif. 



Dr. Henry S. Pritehett, president, Carnegie 

 Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 

 New York City. 



Dr. Harry Pratt Judson, president, University 

 of Chicago, Chicago. 



Mr. Abraham Flexner, secretary of the General 

 Education Board, New York City. 



Monday Afternoon, 2 P.M. 



"The larger function of state university med- 

 ical schools," Dr. Walter A. Jessup, president of 

 the State University of Iowa, Iowa City. 



' ' Full-time teachers in clinical departments, ' ' 

 Dr. William Darrach, dean of Columbia University 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York 

 City. 



"Research in medical schools, laboratory de- 

 partments," Dr. Oskar Klotz, professor of pathol- 

 ogy. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 

 Pittsburgh. 



"Research in medical schools, clinical depart- 

 ments," Dr. G. Canby Robinson, dean, Washing- 

 ton University School of Medicine, St. Louis. 



TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1920 



Morning Session, 9:30 A.M. 



' ' Graduate medical instruction in the United 

 States," Dr. Louis B. WUson, Mayo Clinic, 

 Rochester, Minn. 



"Interallied medical relations; qualifying ex- 

 aminations, licensure, examinations, graduate med- 

 ical instruction," Dr. Walter L. Bierr-ing, secre- 

 tary of the Federation of State Medical Boards, 

 Des Moines. 



"Essential improvements in state medical licen- 

 sure, ' ' Dr. John M. Baldy, president of the Penn- 

 sylvania Bureau of Medical Education and Licen- 

 sure, Philadelphia. 



"Interstate relations in medical licensure," 

 Francis W. Shepardson, director of the Depart- 

 ment of Education and Registration of the State 

 of Illinois, Springfield. 



Tuesday Afternoon, S P.M. 



Reports on Medical Teaching from the Commit- 

 tee on Medical Pedagogy of the Association of 

 American Medical Colleges. 



Remarks by the chairman. Dr. W. S. Carter, dean, 

 University of Texas, department of medicine, Gal- 

 veston. 



Anatomy : Dr. Charles R. Bardeen, dean, Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison. 



