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oculated men, and 150 amongst men who had 

 not been inoculated. There were 29 deaths — 

 22 of which were amongst the inoculated and 

 seven amongst the uninoculated. 



The Jesup lectures of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History are being given this 

 year by Dr. R. S. Woodworth, of Columbia 

 University, who has taken as his subject 

 "Dynamic Psychology." The separate sub- 

 jects and the dates of the lectures, which are 

 on Friday evenings at 8 :15, are as follows : 

 November 10, The Modern Movement in Psy- 

 chology; November 17, The Problems and 

 Methods of Psychology; November 24, The 

 Native Equipment of Man; December 1, Ac- 

 quired or Learned Equipment; December 8, 

 The Factor of Selection and Control ; Decem- 

 ber 15, The Factor of Originality; December 

 22, Drive and Mechanism in Abnormal Be- 

 havior; December 29, Drive and Mechanism 

 in Social Behavior. 



Dr. Herman M. Adler, assistant professor of ' 

 psychiatry, Harvard University, has commenced 

 a study of the facilities for dealing with mental 

 diseases and mental deficiency in Cook County, 

 Hlinois. The survey is under the general 

 direction of the National Committee for 

 Mental Hygiene and the expenses will be met 

 by a special appropriation made by the Rocke- 

 feller Foundation. At the request of gover- 

 nors of the states, state boards of control, 

 state boards of charities and social or civic 

 organizations, the National Committee for 

 Mental Hygiene has conducted or is at pres- 

 ent undertaking such studies in Tennessee, 

 Wisconsin, South Carolina, Louisiana, Cali- 

 fornia, Connecticut, Georgia and Texas. The 

 mayor and the board of estimate of New York 

 City have seen growing up in their community 

 a number of unorganized attempts to deal 

 with what are apparently different phases of 

 the same problem and within a few weeks a 

 special committee has been appointed by the 

 mayor consisting of the commissioner of ac- 

 counts, the commissioner of public charities, 

 the commissioner of corrections, the chair- 

 man of the parole board and the presiding 

 justice of the children's court, to present a 

 constructive plan for the examination, classi- 



fication and proper treatment of mental de- 

 fectives. The mayor's committee has re- 

 quested the National Committee for Mental 

 Hygiene to make for it such a survey as the 

 study about to be commenced in Chicago. 

 Thus studies of the same subject will be car- 

 ried on simultaneously under the same general 

 direction in the two largest cities of the 

 country. 



The annual meeting of the American Social 

 Hygiene Association and joint conference with 

 the St. Louis Social Hygiene Society and 

 Committee of One Hundred of St. Louis was 

 held in St. Louis, November 19 to 21. The 

 chief subjects for discussion were " The New 

 Public Conscience," " Health Aspects of Social 

 Hygiene," " Ways and Means of Public Edu- 

 cation regarding Social Hygiene " and " Re- 

 pression of Commercialized Vice." 



The orthopedic department of the Chil- 

 dren's Hospital, Boston, will offer a course, be- 

 ginning on December 1, 1916, in muscle train- 

 ing and in the principles of the nursing after- 

 care of infantile paralysis. This course will be 

 open to a limited number of properly qualified 

 women and will be an all-day course covering 

 a period of about six weeks, most of the work 

 being in the clinics and practical in character. 

 The course will be under the general super- 

 vision but not under the actual instruction of 

 Dr. R. W. Lovett, surgeon to the hospital to 

 whom application for admission should be 

 made. 



The Peabody Museum of Harvard Univer- 

 sity has received from Arthur Bowditch, Jr., 

 '03, a large collection of spears, household 

 articles and wearing apparel of the Bagoba, 

 Manoba, Moro and other tribes of the Philip- 

 pine Islands. The collection was made by him 

 in 1914. 



The botanical collections of Mr. S. B. Par- 

 ish, comprising over 50,000 herbarium sheets, 

 have been purchased by Stanford University. 

 Mr. Parish has devoted about forty years to 

 the flora of southern California, and his her- 

 barium contains the most complete collection 

 of plants from that region that has been 

 brought together. 



