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Mr. G. W. Bullamore; Mr. J. C. Bee Mason; 
and Mr. A. G. L. Rogers (head of the Horti- 
eulture Branch, Board of Agriculture and 
Fisheries). Mr. R. H. Adie will act as secre- 
tary. It is proposed to undertake the study 
of healthy bees at Cambridge and the investi- 
gations on Isle of Wight disease at Oxford. 
The committee would be glad to receive speci- 
mens of bees suspected of suffering from “ Isle 
of Wight” disease for examination and ex- 
periment. 
Tue American Public Health Association 
will meet at Chicago from October 14 to 17. 
’ Some of the military sanitarians who will ad- 
dress the meetings are Surgeon-General Gor- 
gas, Colonel Victor CO. Vaughan, and Major 
William H. Welch of the Army Medical Corps. 
Other speakers at the general sessions will be 
George H. Vincent, president of the Rocke- 
feller Foundation; Dr. Charles J. Hastings, 
president of the American Public Health As- 
sociation; D. W. A. Evans, Assistant Sur- 
geon-General Allan J. McLaughlin, U.S.P. 
H.S., Dr. Ernest §. Bishop, Dr. Lee K. 
Frankel, Dr. Frederick LL. Hoffman and others. 
OnE motion-picture film is now being sup- 
plied every two weeks by the United States 
Department of Agriculture for release in the 
Universal Screen Magazine. These films show 
in an interesting and educational manner 
some of the activities of the department and 
of the important lessons which the depart- 
ment is trying to teach. Films that have al- 
ready been released show work of the pig 
clubs, road building, forest-fire prevention, 
poultry management, cattle and sheep grazing 
on the national forests, types of horses, co- 
operative berry growing in the Pacific North- 
west, the government’s method of tree plant- 
ing on the national forests, how the depart- 
ment regulates logging in the national forests, 
and the work of the forest ranger. 
THe War Department authorizes the state- 
ment that as a result of the studies at the 
front, methods have been developed whereby 
more than 80 per cent. of the wounded, who 
originally remained at the military hospitals 
for months, are now cured and returned to the 
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forces in three or four weeks. In order that 
Army surgeons stationed at camps, canton- 
ments and other military hospitals in this 
country may thoroughly understand the latest 
treatment of war wounds, the Army Medical 
Department has had established special classes 
of instruction to which are sent selected offi- 
cers who, upon completion of their courses, re- 
turn to their own hospitals and instruct other 
surgeons in these methods. The earliest pos- 
sible information of changes of treatment are 
sent to the Surgeon-General’s Office from the 
American Expeditionary Forces, and these in 
turn are immediately transmitted through the 
classes and, by means of moving pictures, lan- 
tern slides and pamphlets, to every surgeon 
who will come in contact with these wounds 
either at home or at the front. Since last Oc- 
tober more than 150 officers have received spe- 
cial instruction each month in classes which 
have been established at the War Demonstra- 
tion Hospital, Rockefeller Institute; four 
classes at Bellevue Hospital, New York, Roose- 
velt Hospital, New York, University of Penn- 
sylvania, at Philadelphia, Rochester, Minn., 
Pittsburgh, Chicago, New Orleans and San 
Francisco. All surgeons who will come into 
contact with war wounds have received in- 
struction in the methods of administering the 
Carrel-Dakin treatment, and sufficient appa- 
ratus has been furnished to treat every pa- 
tient in the service who may require this 
method. A large supply of apparatus has been 
sent to Europe so that there are now more 
than 50 sets available for every injured man 
who, up to the present time, has needed this 
treatment, and over 8,000 sets are being 
shipped every month to care for the added 
number of wounded in which this application 
may be necessary. 
AT a meeting of the board of directors of 
the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 
recently held in New York, it was decided to 
drop all enemy aliens from membership. The 
meeting, which was under the chairmanship 
of Sidney J. Jennings, president of the insti- 
tute, was attended by twenty-three of the 
