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considers that the attention of the govern- 

 ment and of municipalities should be called 

 to the possibility of reducing the evil by in- 

 creasing the tax on dogs and by enforcing by- 

 laws. The committee considers that in towns 

 the tax on one dog should be doubled and a 

 large progressive increase imposed on each ad- 

 ditional dog. 



The Henry S. Upson Foundation has been 

 organized in Philadelphia for the purpose of 

 encouraging the systematic study of problems 

 wherein dental pathologic conditions are cor- 

 related with those of internal medicine, surg- 

 ery, neurology and psychiatry. The late Henry 

 S. Upson, professor of neurology in the West- 

 ern Reserve University, had been for years 

 deeply interested in the subject, and the foun- 

 dation has been endowed by Mrs. Upson as a 

 memorial to her husband. The organization is 

 composed of a commission, the members con- 

 sisting of Drs. Edward C. Kirk, chairman, J. 

 Madison Taylor, Charles E. deM. Sajous, 

 Nathaniel Gildersleeve, Hermann Prinz and 

 Arthur Hopewell-Smith. This commission 

 elected an executive committee consisting of 

 three members of the commission — namely, Dr. 

 Edward 0. Kirk, chairman, Dr. J. Madison 

 Taylor, secretary, and Dr. Nathaniel Gilder- 

 sleeve. This committee selected a board of as- 

 sociate experts in lines which include the more 

 cognate subjects, consisting of Dr. De Forrest 

 P. Willard, orthopedist; Dr. "Wendell Reber, 

 ophthalmologist ; Dr. Morris Piersol, internist ; 

 Dr. Charles R. Turner, prosthetist; Dr. M. H. 

 Cryer, oral surgeon; Dr. John V. Mershon, 

 orthodontist; Dr. S. D. W. Ludlum, neurolo- 

 gist; Dr. Ralph Butler, rhinologist and laryn- 

 gologist, and Dr. Edward Schuman, pedia- 

 trist. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The vocational-educational bill, providing 

 for federal cooperation with the states in pro- 

 moting agricultural and industrial education, 

 makes an annual appropriation beginning at 

 $500,000 and increasing each year by $250,000 

 until $3,000,000 is reached, to be apportioned 

 to the states in proportion to their rural popu- 

 lation. 



The trustees of the University of Indiana 

 have recommended that a new medical school 

 building, power house, laundry and nurses' 

 home be erected on the grounds of the Robert 

 W. Long Hospital, Indianapolis. A committee 

 was appointed, including the president of the 

 university, Drs. Samuel Smith, Richmond; 

 Charles P. Emerson, John H. Oliver and 

 Frank F. Hutchins, Indianapolis, to formulate 

 plans for the proposed building and report to 

 the board. 



Lord Crewe at a meeting of the governing 

 body of the Imperial College of Science and 

 Technology, speaking, on June 30, of the pro- 

 fessor's memorial on the neglected teaching 

 of science, said that the government intended 

 to appoint a committee of scientific men to 

 inquire into the position of natural science in 

 the English educational system, especially in 

 the universities and secondary schools. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



MOSQUITOES AND MAN 



In Sctence for June 2, 1916, p. 784, Dr. C. 

 S. Ludlow calls attention to the association 

 with man of those species of mosquitoes con- 

 cerned in disease transmission, laying partic- 

 ular stress upon Anopheles and malaria. This 

 is an important factor in epidemiology all too 

 frequently overlooked by the sanitarian, but it 

 is surprising to find that Dr. Ludlow claims 

 for Major P. M. Ashburn, as indeed he does 

 for himself, the discovery of this relation. 



The fact is, this relationship has been long 

 recognized by careful students. Its considera- 

 tion unquestionably led Finlay to his deduc- 

 tion as to the transmission of yellow fever, the 

 truth of which was afterward so thoroughly 

 demonstrated by the American Army Com- 

 mission. 



In the case of malaria, Grassi was led to the 

 discovery of the Anopheline host by similar 

 considerations. He attacked the problem from 

 the ecological viewpoint, eliminating those 

 blood-sucking forms which did not coincide 

 with the disease in distribution. This is really 

 only a different formulation of the same idea. 



India has probably produced a larger num- 



