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colored drawings, and some living specimens 

 from the large collection possessed by the So- 

 ciety. 



An Association of Medical Librarians was or- 

 ganized at a meeting of a number of representa- 

 tives of medical libraries held at the editorial 

 rooms of the Philadelphia Medical Journal, in 

 Philadelphia, on May 2d. The officers elected 

 were : President, Dr. George M. Gould, of 

 Philadelphia ; Vice-President, Dr. J. L. Roth- 

 rock, of St. Paul, Minn. ; Secretary, Miss M. R. 

 Charlton, of Montreal, Canada; Treasurer, Dr. 

 William Browning, of Brooklyn, N. Y. 



John Guitbeas, professor of pathology in 

 the University of Pennsylvania and an eminent 

 yellow fever expert, has been instructed by the 

 Surgeon-General of the United States Army to 

 proceed to Tampa, Florida, to act as medical 

 adviser to the commander of the army which it 

 is expected will invade Cuba. Relative to the 

 dangers which may beset troops in Cuba, and 

 the precautions which should be adopted, the 

 following statement, says the Philadelphia 

 Medical Journal, is attributed to Dr. Guiteras : 

 " It is possible to prevent the infection of mili- 

 tary garrisons, though whether it can be done 

 in a campaign remains to be seen. Yellow 

 fever is circumscribed within certain areas, and 

 if it is possible to keep troops away from those 

 areas there will be little danger of infection. 

 Contrary to the prevailing idea, altitude does 

 not govern the disease. There are no extremely 

 high altitudes in Cuba, and yet there are places 

 where there is no yellow fever. In some places 

 on the coast the disease is not to be found. As 

 a general rule the more important the town, the 

 greater its commercial activity, the more in- 

 fected it is. Yet a congregation of people in 

 the interior could not originate yellow fever. 

 The cities where the disease prevails are in- 

 fected because they are permanently inhabited 

 by a crowd. Still the disease may be carried 

 to a garrison from an infected town. To guard 

 against this the troops must be placed by them- 

 selves, in uninfected places, and they must not 

 communicate with infected places. Then, too, 

 no depot of supplies should be placed in an in- 

 fected port. This is, of course, a desideratum 

 that it may be difficult to obtain for strategic 



reasons. Ideal conditions are not always pos- 

 sible in a military campaign. Whether or not 

 yellow fever can be kept from the troops de- 

 pends entirely upon whether these plans can be 

 carried out." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



Colonel Joseph M. Bennett has given the 

 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania real 

 estate valued at $80,000, and adjacent to the 

 building he had previously given to the Uni- 

 versity for a Women's Hall. It is expected 

 that there will ultimately be erected on this 

 land a special building for the women's de- 

 partment of the University, though the build- 

 ings as they now exist are available for this 

 purpose. Women are at present admitted to 

 the graduate courses of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, and it is planned to establish un- 

 dergraduate courses. Colonel Bennett had also 

 previously given to the University $17,600 for 

 fellowships for women, and the announcement 

 is just made that a fellowship for three years 

 has been guaranteed by former women students 

 of the University. 



At the last meeting of the Trustees of Colum- 

 bia University it was decided to call the building 

 erected for work in physics ' Fayerweather 

 Hall,' in recognition of the bequest of $300,000; 

 made to the University by the late Mr. Fayer- 

 weather. 



The University of Edinburgh has received a 

 bequest by the will of the late Honorable B. F. 

 Primrose of £2,000, one half to be used for the 

 encouragement of original research and one-half 

 for the library. 



The diploma of M.D. of the Paris University 

 will henceforth be given to foreign students who 

 go through the medical curriculum without 

 previously passing their baccalaureat examina- 

 tion. This diploma, in accordance with Ar- 

 ticle 15 of the Decree of July 21, 1897, does 

 not give any of the privileges attached to the 

 real degree. It happens curiously that at the 

 same time the Prussian government has adopted 

 an exactly opposite policy and has decided that, 

 after this year, the degree of M.D. will be given 

 to no one who has not passed the state examina- 

 tion and so become legally qualified to practice 

 medicine in the German Empire. ' 



