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tion Federation, -with headquarters at 456 Fourth 

 Avenue, New York City, are published two resolu- 

 tions passed by the New York Anti-vivisection So- 

 ciety at its annual meeting January 31, 1918, and 

 forwarded to you officially. The second resolu- 

 tion reads as follows: 



Be it further resolved, That a copy of the fore- 

 going resolution be forwarded to the Secretary of 

 War as our official protest against the medical 

 department's claim that serum inoculation is a 

 necessary war measure and for that reason made 

 compulsory, and as our protest against compul- 

 sory inoculation when the individual soldier con- 

 scientiously objects thereto; and we point to the 

 provision of exemption now made by Great Britain, 

 that power having been forced to rescind the rule 

 of compulsion after the alarming effects of inocu- 

 lation were disclosed. 



It has long been a matter of common knowledge 

 and deeply regretted by the medical profession 

 that Great Britain has never made anti-typhoid 

 vaccination compulsory, as it fortunately is in our 

 own army. 



In an article entitled ' ' The Red Cross and the 

 Anti-vivisectionists, " a copy of which I am in- 

 closing, I have shown by irrefutable facts how ex- 

 traordinary the protection of the anti-typhoid vac- 

 cination has been in our own army and in the 

 British army. 



Although I knew that the statement in this reso- 

 lution was an absolute falsehood, I preferred to 

 . have an authority which was beyond all question. 

 Accordingly, on Saturday, April 27, I sent the 

 following cable to Surgeon-General Goodwin, who 

 occupies the same post in Great Britain that Gen- 

 eral Gorgas does in this country: 



Sdegeon-General Goodwin, War Office, London. 

 Has anti-typhoid vaccination ever been compul- 

 sory in British army? 



Keen 



To this on Monday, April 29, I have received the 

 following reply: 



London, Professor Keen, Philadelphia. 



Anti-typhoid inoculation has never been compul- 

 sory in British army. 



Goodwin 



You will observe, therefore, that this is a flat 

 countradiction of the false assertion of the New 

 York Anti-vivisection Society. 



Nearly all of the British army has been volun- 

 tarily vaccinated against typhoid fever. Colonel 

 F. F. EusseU, in Surgeon-General Gorgas' office, 

 authorizes me to say that he understands that 

 ninety-nine per cent, of the British soldiers are 

 vaccinated against typhoid fever. The reason for 

 this is that they have seen how extraordinarily 

 complete is the protection offered by the anti- 



typhoid inoculation. At this time the fate of the 

 war depends largely on the health of our army. 

 It is in my opinion equivalent to disloyalty to de- 

 prive our soldiers of this protection and sacrifice 

 their lives instead of the lives of a few rabbits, 

 guinea pigs, cats and dogs. 



Yours very respectfully, 



W. W. Keen 



THE SILLIMAN LECTURES 



The Silliman Lectures at Yale University, 

 to be delivered from May 21 to 29, will be 

 based on seven of the twelve chapters con- 

 tained in the anniversary number of the Amer- 

 ican Journal of Science, to be published about 

 July 1. A Silliman leotureship volume, em- 

 bracing the contents of this number, with 

 some additions, will also be issued later by the 

 Yale University Press. The lectures will be 

 as follows : 



I. The American Journal of Science from 

 1818 to 1918, by E. S. Dana. May 21, 4 p.m. 



II. A Century of Geology — Historical Geol- 

 ogy, by Charles Sohuchert. May 22, 4 p.m. 



III. A Century of Geology — The Growth of 

 Knowledge of Earth Structure, by Joseph Bar- 

 rell. May 23, 4 p.m. 



rV. The Development of Vertebrate Paleon- 

 tology, by Eichard S. Lull. May 24, 8 p.m. 



V. The Progress of Chemistry during the 

 Past One Hundred Years, by Horace L. Wells. 

 May 27, 4 p.m. 



VI. A Century's Progress in Physics, by 

 Leigh Page. May 28, 4 p.m. 



VII. A Century of Zoology in America, by 

 Wesley E. Coe. May 29, 4 p.m. 



THE BALTIMORE MEETING OF THE AMERICAN 



ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 



OF SCIENCE 



The annual meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science and 

 of the national scientific societies affiliated 

 with it will be held at Baltimore, from De- 

 cember 27 to December 31. Boston had been 

 selected as the place of meeting this year, ac- 

 tion recommending that the meeting be held 

 in that city having been taken at the meeting 

 in New York City two years ago. In view, 

 however, of war conditions and of the large 

 numiber of scientific men now working at 



