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number of special committees, including those 
on the incidence of phthisis in relation to oc- 
cupation; on surgical shock and allied con- 
ditions of which Professor Bayliss has become 
chairman; on the standardization of patho- 
logical methods, of which Professor Adami, 
F.R.S., is chairman; on salvarsan; on chem- 
ical warfare medical investigations; on an- 
aérobic bacteria and infections, of which Pro- 
fessor Bulloch is chairman; on accessory food 
factors (“vitamines”), of which Professor 
Hopkins is chairman; on air medical inyesti- 
gations, of which Dr. Head is chairman; and 
on dysentery, of which Sir William Leishman 
is chairman. There is also an industrial 
fatigue research board, appointed last June by 
the Department of Scientific and Industrial 
Research jointly with the Medical Research 
Committee, to consider and investigate the 
relations of the hours of labor and of other 
conditions of employment, including methods 
of work, to the production of fatigue, having 
regard both to industrial efficiency and of the 
preservation of health, among the workers. 
Of this committee Professor Sherrington is 
chairman. In the introduction to the annual 
report reference is made to the cordial co- 
operation received from the Advisory Council 
of Scientific and Industrial Research, estab- 
lished in 1915. The field of research in every 
pure science, not less than that of inquiry in 
industrial science, lies so close at very many 
points to the fields of medical research, that no 
boundary line can be drawn. The committee 
looks forward to the progressive development 
in this cooperation with the department of 
scientific and industrial research, and finds 
new hope for the increasing effective organi- 
zation of research work in all directions. 
“This,” it is said, “should be an organization 
not imposed in any sense from above, but one 
derived from and inspired by the efforts of 
individual workers in the different fields of 
science, where the free university and other 
institutions of the country are pursuing to- 
gether the common aims of the advancement 
of knowledge and the good of the state.” In 
this connection it may be recalled that the 
Ministry of Health Bill provides that “the 
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duties heretofore performed by the Medical 
Research Committee shall, after the com- 
mencement of this act, be carried on by or 
under the direction of a committee of the 
Privy Council appointed by His Majesty for 
that purpose.” This would place the Medical 
Research Committee in a position analogous 
to that of the Advisory Council of Scientific 
and Industrial Research. 
RESOLUTIONS IN HONOR OF DIRECTOR 
FREDERICK J. V. SKIFF 
On the sixteenth of December Dr. Frederick 
J. V. Skiff, director of the Field Museum of 
Natural History, Chicago, was presented with 
engrossed resolutions by eighty-six of those 
affiliated with him in the museum, the occasion 
for this presentation being the twenty-fifth 
anniversary of the appointment of Dr. Ski 
as director of the Field Museum. Dr. Skiff 
was the recipient of many congratulatory 
letters and telegrams. The resolutions are as 
follows: 
On this, the occasion of the twenty-fifth anni- 
versary of your appointment as direétor of this 
museum, we who are affiliated with you in the 
work of the museum unanimously extend to you 
our hearty congratulations upon your successful 
completion of so notable a term of service, and 
wish to express to you as well, our deep apprecia- 
tion of the cordial relations which you have main- 
tained with us during this period. 
The task to which you were called twenty-five 
years ago presented, as we realize, peculiar diffi- 
culties. The plan and purpose of the museum were 
to some extent uncharted and the execution of 
even such plans as had been made called for the 
exercise of unusual administrative ability. The 
opportunity at hand at this time for creating a 
museum of world-wide scope and importance was 
known to be great, but the manner in which this 
opportunity should be improved, so far as admin- 
istrative details were concerned, rested with you. 
With what high idealism, fixity of purpose and wis- 
dom of direction you performed this task, the in- 
stitution which exists to-day eloquently testifies. 
Whatever great accomplishments of service and 
progress await the museum in the future, we feel 
sure that it will always lowe its success to the broad 
foundations which it has been your privilege and 
at the same time your high honor to have laid. 
Only one of broad, well-balanced and highly cul- 
