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possible, and the opportunity for the working 
out of a rational, scientific policy for the 
management of our fur-seal herd has forever 
passed. 
Mr. Clark threw his whole soul into the fur- 
seal question which without doubt he under- 
stood more clearly than any other man. He 
contributed numerous articles on this subject 
to scientific, technical and popular magazines. 
Several of his articles appeared in Scrmnce 
and others in THe Screntiric Montuty. He 
wrote important parts of the four-volume re- 
port of the Fur-Seal Commission of 1896 and 
1897, and for the Encyclopedia Britannica 
and the Encyclopedia Americana. 
In speaking of Mr. Clark, Dr. Jordan, with 
whom he was so closely associated for twenty- 
seven years, said: 
George A. Clark was a university official of the 
very highest type. Exact, patient, courteous, de- 
voted, absolutely unselfish, his services were of the 
greatest importance to Stanford as a whole and 
vitally so to the president, who had in the early 
days, distressing problems of litigation and finance 
to deal with as well as with the creation of a new 
university. In every phase of these problems he 
had the unfailing help of a secretary who never 
forgot anything; who never gave false color; and 
whose only thought was the welfare of the insti- 
tution he served. George Clark was a noble, loyal 
and capable soul, one to whom I owe personally 
very much. 
Barton WarrREN EvERMANN 
MuseEvm, 
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 
PROPOSED FEDERAL HEALTH PROGRAM 
The Municipal Journal states that complaint 
has been made by Dr. S. S. Goldwater on be- 
half of the War Service Committee of the 
American Hospital Association that the Treas- 
ury Department, to which President Wilson re- 
ferred a comprehensive program of health con- 
servation adopted last winter by a group of 
leading sanitarians, has so far given no indi- 
cation of formulating such a program. The 
President referred the program to the Treas- 
ury Department on July 1, said Dr. Goldwater. 
In the executive order of the President all 
sanitary or public health activities as carried 
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on by any government bureau were given over 
to the Treasury Department. Since the 
President has ordered the centralization of the 
entire health program, says Dr. Goldwater, the 
time has come to give adequate attention to 
the other recommendations. The program 
asked for the appointment of an administra- 
tive head known as the Assistant Secretary of 
Health or perhaps the Health Administrator, 
to hold his place for the duration of the war. 
It also asked for the creation in Congress of a 
Committee on Public Health. Among the im- 
portant features of health control in wartime 
which were formulated by the committee were 
the following: 
The establishing of standard procedures for the 
control of communicable diseases, including re- 
porting diagnoses, treatment and sanitary super- 
vision, and the adoption of these standards by local 
authorities. Particular attention to be paid to 
malaria, hookworm disease, typhoid fever, tuber- 
culosis, and the communicable diseases of child- 
hood. 
A comprehensive program for the hygiene of 
war industries to be prepared and put into effect. 
Among the matters for special attention should 
be adjustment of the hours of labor to obtain max- 
imum production without damage to the health of 
the workers. Special attention should be given to 
the diseases which seriously reduce the efficiency 
of farm labor in southern states. 
Standards for maternity care and for the pres- 
ervation of the health of infants and children 
should be prepared and promulgated. A plan 
should be prepared and put into effect for the reg- 
istration and after-care of men enlisted or drafted 
for military service and subsequently rejected or 
discharged on account of mental or physical de- 
fects. This should include, for example, extension 
of facilities for the sanitarium and home care of 
tuberculosis victims and for hospital and home 
treatment for mental defectives and drug addicts. 
To insure the quality and make reasonable the 
cost of essential drugs and biological products, 
standard methods of manufacture and standards 
of potency should be developed and enforced. A 
comprehensive propaganda of health education 
adapted to various localities and all classes of peo- 
ple should be developed. 
Steps should be taken to provide for the national 
registration of deaths, births, and cases of pre- 
ventable diseases. A program should be prepared 
