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Dr. Welch's writings are scattered through 

 a great variety of publications and are more 

 or less inaccessible. It has accordingly been 

 decided to bring together and to publish in 

 three volumes his papers and addresses which 

 strikingly reveal the great part he has played 

 in the development of medical science and 

 medical education. 



In order that the project may be assured it 

 has been decided to invite his friends and 

 former pupils to imite in making possible the 

 publication of his work. 



The volumes will be issued by the Johns 

 Hopkins Press ixnder the editorial supervision 

 of the undersigned committee. The set of 

 three volumes, bound in linen, is offered to 

 the subscribers at $16.50, which is less than 

 the estimated cost. Each copy will be num- 

 bered, and assigned in the order of subscrip- 

 tion. The edition will be restricted to the 

 niunber subscribed. 



Committee: John J. Abel, Lewellys F. 

 Barker, Frank Billings, Walter C. Burket, 

 William T. Councilman, Harvey Gushing, 

 John M. T. Finney, Simon Flexner, William 

 S. Halsted, William H. Howell, John How- 

 land, Henry M. Hurd, Henry Barton Jacobs, 

 William W. Keen, Howard A. Kelly, William 

 G. MacCallum, William J. Mayo, Ealph B. 

 Seem, Winford H. Smith, William S. Thayer, 

 J. Whitridge Williams, Hugh H. Young. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Sm Auckland Geddes, who was formerly 

 professor of anatomy in McGill University, 

 and is now a member of the British cabinet as 

 president of the board of trade, has been 

 named as British ambassador to the United 

 States. 



Dr. W. S. Halsted, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, has been elected to honorary for- 

 eign membership in the Royal Academy of 

 Medicine of Belgium. 



The following are the officers of the Asso- 

 ciation of American Geographers for the year 

 1920: President, Herbert E. Gregory; Vice- 

 presidenis, Harlan H. Barrows and Charles F. 

 Brooks; Treasurer, George B. Roorback; Coun- 



cilors, Walter S. Tower, Eliot Blackwelder and 

 Ray H. Whitbeok; Secretary and Editor, Rich- 

 ard E. Dodge. 



Major H. E. Wimperis has been transferred 

 from the office of the British Crovm Agents for 

 the Colonies to the Air Ministry, to take up 

 the position of head of the air navigation re- 

 search section. 



Mr. Alfred Smetham, chemist to the Royal 

 Lancashire Agricultural Society, has been 

 elected president of the British Society of 

 Public Analysts in succession to Dr. Samuel 

 Rideal. 



Dr. Leon Bernard, professor of hygiene in 

 the faculty of medicine, Paris, a well-known 

 writer on tuberculosis, has been elected a mem- 

 ber of the Academy of Medicine. Dr. Lesbre, 

 of Lyons, and Dr. Lignieres, of Buenos Aires, 

 have been elected correspondents. 



The Christian Fenger fellowship for 1920 

 has been awarded to Dr. Harry Culver, of the 

 University of Illinois Medical School, Chi- 

 cago. He wall continue his studies on Infec- 

 tions of the Kidney. 



Dr. Albert Ernest Jenks, professor of an- 

 thropology and director of the four-year 

 Americanization training course at the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, has been made president 

 of the newly organized ITational Council of 

 Americanization Workers. 



John Wagner, Jr., civil engineer, eldest son 

 of Samuel Tobias Wagner, chief engineer of 

 the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Co., has 

 been elected a member of the board of trustees 

 of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, to fill 

 the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph 

 Willcox. 



Dr. Nathaniel L. Britton, director of the 

 New York Botanical Garden, is engaged in 

 botanical work in Trinidad. 



Dr. J. Percy Moore, professor of zoology in 

 the University of Pennsylvania, has been 

 given leave of absence for one year to study 

 abroad. 



Professor Emilio Oddone, an Italian seis- 

 mologist, arrived recently in New York from 



