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cooperative arrangement developed during the 

 past year for preventing the interchange of 

 disease between civil and military populations. 

 Among the subjects to be discussed are the 

 relation to public health of industrial hygiene 

 and sanitation, especially in war industries; 

 the care of the health of tuberculous soldiers 

 on their return to civil life ; the use of records 

 of drafted men for public health purposes; 

 effects on the public health of the forthcoming 

 shortage in the medical profession. Among 

 the subjects not so closely related to the war 

 are: the securing of better morbidity reports, 

 and the question of pure water supplies for 

 railroads. There will be reports of standing 

 committees in regard to many of the subjects 

 outlined above and in regard to the sanitation 

 of public conveyances, rural sanitation, and 

 increasing the efficiency of the conferences. 

 The sessions will constitute the sixteenth an- 

 nual conference of state and territorial health 

 authorities with the United States Public 

 Health Service. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has formed 

 a new division for applied science which is to 

 consist of six members. 



Simmons College announces the graduation 

 in May and June of specially trained women 

 to serve as secretaries in hospitals and dis- 

 pensaries, or to private physicians. Their 

 training includes all the technical secretarial 

 work and in addition a knowledge of medical 

 terms, scientific German and general and spe- 

 cial science as applied in the diagnostic lab- 

 oratory. 



The American Association of Clinical Psy- 

 chologists was organized at Pittsburgh on De- 

 cember 28, 1917. The membership includes 

 persons holding the doctorate in psychology, 

 who are engaged in the clinical practise of 

 psycholog-y in the United States. The forty- 

 five charter members are chiefly directors of 

 clinics, of bureaus of child welfare, of institu- 

 tional laboratories; engaged in army service, 

 as mental examiners of recruits and officers; 

 or connected with courts, hospitals and schools. 

 The objects of the association are to promote 

 an esprit de corps among psychologists who 



have entered the practical field, to provide 

 media for the communication of ideas, to aid 

 in establishing definite standards of profes- 

 sional fitness for the practise of psychology 

 and to encourage research in problems relating 

 to mental hygiene and corrective education. 



The biological station of the University of 

 Michigan will hold its tenth session this sum- 

 mer during the eight weeks from July 1 to Au- 

 gust 23, inclusive. This station is situated on 

 the shores of Douglas Lake in the northern 

 part of the southern peninsula of Michigan, 

 about equidistant from Petoskey, Mackinaw 

 City and Cheboygan. The personnel of the 

 teaching staff is as follows : In zoology, George 

 R. La Hue, of the University of Michigan, Max 

 M. Ellis, of the University of Colorado, and 

 laul S. Welch, of the Kansas State Agricul- 

 tural College in botany, Henry Allan Gleason 

 and John H. Ehlers, of the University of 

 Michigan, and Frank C. Gates, of Carthage 

 College. Roland F. Hussey and Glenwood C. 

 Roe will serve as assistants in zoology, and 

 Mrs. Max M. Ellis will be dean of women. 

 The courses offered deal with the natural his- 

 tory, classification and ecology of plants and 

 animals and are of necessity given almost en- 

 tirely in the field. Opportunity for investiga- 

 tion is offered to a limited number of investi- 

 gators upon the payment of very nominal fees, 

 i or further information regarding the station 

 and the possibilities for biological work offered 

 there make inquiry of George R. La Rue, di- 

 rector, Ann Ai^bor, Michisan. 



The Scottish Geographical Magazine states 

 that a curious minor effect of the war is the 

 possible recrudescence of indigenous malaria 

 in England, to which attention is called in a 

 circular issued by the Local Government Board. 

 It is well known that anopheline mosquitoes 

 are found in various parts of England. Numi- 

 bers of men who have contracted malaria dur- 

 ing the course of the fighting on the eastern 

 fronts have returned home, and as their blood 

 contains the malarial parasite, and the carriers 

 exist in this country, these men may serve as 

 foci of infection for the civilian population. 

 Some cases of indigenous malaria have been 

 already recorded in England, which probably 



