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certain technical work for the Standard Oil 
Company. 
THE memorial statue of the late Dr. Edward 
A. Trudeau, founder of the Adirondack Cot- 
tage Sanatorium, now known as the Trudeau 
Sanatorium, Saranac, was unveiled on August 
10. The principal oration was made by the Rey. 
Philemon F. Sturgis. The statue is a gift of 
former patients of the sanatorium, and bears 
an inscription indicative of the love and grati- 
tude of the donors. 
Henry Grorce Primer, F.R.S., professor 
of comparative pathology in the Imperial Col- 
lege of Science and Technology, London, died 
on June 22, aged sixty-one years. 
Dr. NeweLt Arper, demonstrator in paleo- 
botany at Cambridge, died on June 14 at the 
age of forty-seven years. i 
Tue deaths are announced of A. Kolisko, of 
Vienna, professor of pathologic anatomy, and 
of Leopold Meyer, professor of the diseases of 
women and children, of the University of 
Copenhagen. 
It is reported that one of the most com- 
plete hospitals in the world, expected to take a 
large part of the work of rehabilitating Amer- 
ican soldiers wounded overseas, is being erected 
in Detroit by Henry Ford at a cost of three 
million dollars. The hospital is being built 
on a twenty-acre tract of land and will have 
a floor space of 50,000 square feet. It will bea 
four-story structure, with the exception of 
the diagnostic building placed in the center, 
which will be six stories high. There will be 
1,300 windows in the building, 40 porches 
around it, and a root garden. 
By the will of a Mr. Ramsay, resident in 
Scotland, but who formerly had large financial 
interests in Toronto, the hospitals in Toronto 
and other public charities in that city will 
benefit to the extent of $750,000. 
McGitt University Hospiran, at Etaples, 
France, is to be removed to England, as it has . 
been bombed from German airplanes on sey- 
eral occasions. 
Tue War Department authorizes the state- 
ment from the Office of the Surgeon General 
that, at the request of General Pershing, 
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twenty additional nutrition officers have gone 
to Europe to supervise rationing of the sol- 
diers of the American Expeditionary Forces 
and to introduce methods that will further 
protect the food of the troops from waste, 
spoilage and contamination. This brings the 
total of such officers now on duty in England 
and France to twenty-nine. The first six of 
these specialists went abroad in March. Their 
work was so satisfactory that in a few weeks 
more were asked for. The investigations made 
by these men resulted in improved mess con- 
ditions, both in camp and in the trenches, and 
demonstrated the necessity for continuous 
supervision, hence the recent sailing of the 
twenty. One of the principal problems facing 
these men is the adjusting of the present gar- 
rison ration to current needs. This ration 
was fixed long before the present conditions of 
modern warfare, and experience has shown that 
adjustments must be made in order to feed 
the troops satisfactorily without waste or 
spoilage. 
THE Journal of the American Medical Asso- 
ciation states that the leading physicians of 
Sao Paulo have organized a society to study 
questions of heredity and means to improve 
the human race. Its aims and purposes are set 
forth in an eight-page pamphlet, especially 
emphasizing the aim to enlighten and educate 
the public in matters relating to hygiene and 
eugenics, for the welfare of the individual, of 
the community and of future generations. 
THE Royal Geographical Journal states 
that M. René de Saussure, great-grandson of 
the celebrated Swiss naturalist, outlines in the 
March, 1918, number of the Archives des Sci- 
ences physiques et naturelles of Geneva, a 
scheme for a Central Meteorological Bureau 
for Europe to be established after the war. 
He suggests that the time is opportune for the 
foundation of such a bureau, as it would en- 
able the heads of the national meteorological 
services of belligerent countries to exchange 
necessary data without direct correspondence. 
But as he acknowledges that such a central 
bureau must be under the control of an inter- 
national committee, this point loses its force, 
since such a committee must meet before the © 
