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man; H. A. Carpenter, secretary ; C. 0. Hop- 

 kins, Adolph Lomb and C. E. Kenneth Mees. 

 The association now has about forty members 

 in the city and the number is increasing. It is 

 not the intention of the Rochester Branch to 

 compete in any manner with the numerous 

 scientific societies in the city, but it aims to do 

 locally what the association is doing in the 

 national field; that is, to stimulate general in- 

 terest in scientific study, to secure more scien- 

 tific operation of the city housekeeping, and 

 to act as the correlating body for greater 

 union and effectiveness of the scientific forces 

 in the city, which has a remarkable develop- 

 ment of applied science. 



At the annual election of the New York 

 Academy of Medicine on December 7, the 

 following officers were elected: President, 

 Dr. Walter B. James; vice-president, Dr. 

 Edwin B. Cragin; trustee, Dr. Charles L. 

 Dana; member of committee on admissions, 

 Dr. Samuel A. Brown, and member of com- 

 mittee on library, Dr. Warren Coleman. 



At the seventy-first annual meeting of the 

 Smithsonian Institution held in Washington 

 on December 14 the resignation of Dr. Andrew 

 D. White as a regent was presented and ac- 

 cepted, the board adopting a resolution of ap- 

 preciation of his nearly thirty years of serv- 

 ice. Dr. White wrote that with advancing age 

 he found it impossible to attend to the duties. 

 Representative James T. Lloyd, of Missouri, 

 was appointed to succeed Maurice Connolly, 

 of Iowa, whose Congressional term had ex- 

 pired. 



The five members of the International 

 Health Board Commission of the Rockefeller 

 Foundation, which left June 15 for South and 

 Central America to study yellow fever and 

 other contagious tropical diseases, have re- 

 turned to the United States. The commission 

 was headed by Major-General William C. 

 Gorgas, IT. S. A., and included Dr. Henry R. 

 Carter, of the United States Public Health 

 Service; Dr. C. C. Lyster, Dr. Eugene R. 

 Whitmore, Dr. William R. Wrightson and Dr. 

 Juan Guiteras, head of the Public Health 

 Service of Cuba. Dr. Guiteras stopped at Bar- 

 bados to investigate reported yellow-fever con- 



ditions there. General Gorgas said that the 

 members of the commission had a very suc- 

 cessful trip, and that details of their investi- 

 gations and their recommendations would be 

 made public through the Rockefeller Founda- 

 tion. 



Dr. Waldon E. Muns, formerly of Bellevue 

 Hospital laboratory, New York, has been ap- 

 pointed first assistant bacteriologist in the 

 Syracuse city laboratory, succeeding Dr. Wil- 

 liam L. Culpepper, who resigned to accept a 

 position with the International Health Board 

 of the Rockefeller Foundation. 



Dr. Rudolf Rubrecht, for several years re- 

 search chemist in the chemical laboratory of 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, has resigned to accept an industrial 

 position in Philadelphia. 



Arrangements have been completed by the 

 American Museum of Natural History for an 

 exhibit of some of Charles R. Knight's recent 

 paintings and small bronzes of modern animals 

 and also of a mural decoration of prehistoric 

 animals in the West Assembly Hall of the 

 Museum from December 15, 1916, to January 

 15, 1917. 



Dr. William W. Keen (Brown, '57), emeri- 

 tus professor of surgery at Jefferson Medical 

 College, will deliver three lectures on January 

 10, 15 and 17 on the Colver Foundation of 

 Brown University, taking as his subject : 

 " Medical Research and Human Welfare."' 

 The lectures will be " the record of personal 

 experience and observation during a profes- 

 sional life of fifty-seven years." 



Professor Mary W. Calkins, of Wellesley 

 College, is this year the lecturer in philosophy 

 on the Mills Foundation at the University of 

 California. Her subject is " The Fundamental 

 Problems of Philosophy." 



The first lecture in the Adolfo Stahl Lecture 

 Course in Astronomy was given in San Fran- 

 cisco, on the evening of November 10, 1916, 

 by Dr. W. W. Campbell, on the subject " The 

 Solar System." The course is given under 

 the auspices of the Astronomical Society of 

 the Pacific, and provision for it was made by 



