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Engineering Chemistry. The secretary writes : 

 " The May Journal, the May and June Indus- 

 trial Journal, and the May 10 Ahstracts have 

 been mailed to members. The June Journal 

 and May 20 Ahstracts are about to be mailed. 

 The July Industrial Journal will follow soon. 

 Our publishers report that they now have a 

 full corps of men, although somewhat inex- 

 perienced in chemical printing. They state 

 that as far as they are concerned the strike is 

 over, and there will be no increased printing 

 costs to the society, but that it will take them 

 a few months to get back on the very prompt 

 schedule that they have given us for many 

 years past. Members are asked to be patient 

 regarding the receipt of their journals with the 

 assurance that in a few months everything will 

 be normal again." 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that the expedition sent to British Guiana by 

 the London School of Tropical Medicine to 

 investigate filaria has been at work since the 

 middle of April. It was dispatched at the re- 

 quest of the then Secretary for the Colonies, 

 Lord Milner, who considered that further in- 

 formation was required as to the best method 

 of controlling filariasis. The leader of the 

 expedition is Professor E. T. Leiper, director 

 of the helminthology department of the Lon- 

 don School of Tropical Medicine; he was ac- 

 companied by Dr. Jolm Anderson, Dr. Chung 

 Un Lee, and Dr. Mahomed Blalil of the 

 Egyptian Medical Service; Dr. G. M. Vevers, 

 demonstrator of helminthology in the London 

 School of Tropical Medicine, will leave Eng- 

 land to join the expedition very shortly. It 

 was originally arranged that the expedition 

 should last for six months, and at the sugges- 

 tion of Sir Patrick Manson it is proposed that 

 visits shall be paid to certain West Indian 

 islands, choosing one, such as Barbados, where 

 the rate of attack is high, and another, such as 

 Grenada, where it is low. It is hoped that by 

 comparing and contrasting the circumstances 

 of two such islands light may be thrown on 

 the conditions which favor the filaria. 



The New York State Association of Con- 

 sulting Psychologists has been established. 

 The purposes of the organization are : " The 



promotion of high standards of professional 

 qualifications for consulting psychologists " 

 and " Stimulating research work in the field 

 of psychological analysis and evaluation." 

 Membership is limited to those who have the 

 minimum requirements of two years graduate 

 work in psychology. The Executive Commit- 

 tee for the current year are: David Mitchell, 

 President; Louis A. Pechstein, vice-president; 

 Elizabeth A. Walsh, secretary-treasurer ; Eliza- 

 beth E. Farrell, Samuel B. Heckman; Leta 

 S. Hollingworth ; Robert S. Woodworth. The 

 association has already begun active work and 

 is making psychological examinations of chil- 

 dren, and the Department of Education plans 

 to organize classes on the basis of the results 

 secured through the psychological examina- 

 tions. 



The committee appointed to judge the sci- 

 entific exhibit at the Boston meeting of the 

 American Medical Association, which con- 

 sisted of Dr. W. B. Cannon and Dr. G. W. 

 McCoy, has awarded a gold medal to Dr. 

 Kenneth M. Lynch of the department of path- 

 ology of the Medical College of the State of 

 South Carolina, for his exhibit of photographs 

 and microscopic preparations illustrating in- 

 vestigation of ulcerative granulomata. Cer- 

 tificates of merit are awarded to Dr. V. H. 

 Kazanjian of the Harvard Dental School for 

 his exhibit of plaster masks, casts and photo- 

 graphs of war injuries to the face and jaws, 

 and Drs. Mendel, Osborne and Bailey of the 

 Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station 

 for their exhibit illustrating the effect of dif- 

 ferent qualities of protein upon growth. 



Dr. Lynds Jones, of the department of 

 ecology of Oberlin College, is in charge of a 

 scientific expedition into the northwestern part 

 of the United States. Five men and eleven 

 women research students will make a tour in 

 specially prepared Eord cars, with complete 

 camping outfit. Starting at Grinnell, Iowa, the 

 party will visit Lake Okoboji, and will then go 

 through Minnesota along the old Yellowstone 

 Trail. Special stops will be made at Aber- 

 deen, South Dakota, and Billings, Montana. 

 After visiting the Glacier National Park a 

 sixteen day trip will be made into Alaska. 



