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city forestry. Among tliese positions was that 

 of chief inspector of forests for New Zealand, 

 consulting forest engineer for the government 

 of India, chief of the timher section of the 

 Income Tax Bureau, forester for the province 

 of Shantung, China, state forester of Con- 

 necticut, commissioner of forestry for Maine, 

 deputy commissioner of forestry for Penn- 

 sylvania, forester for Illinois, professor of 

 forest engineering, Syracuse, special investi- 

 gator, in tropics, for "Western Electric Com- 

 pany, and many other positions in national, 

 state and private forestry, lumbering, wood 

 products and kindred lines. 



Eecognition of the versatility and training 

 of graduates of Yale in forestry has caused 

 a demand for their services which the school 

 has been unable to supply, and an increasing 

 field is opening up in commercial lines, 'in 

 the handling of lumber sales, tropical prod- 

 ucts and by-products. At the same time the 

 increasing interest ia forestry by state and 

 private land ovyners is giving rise to a de- 

 mand for foresters in increasing numbers to 

 fill these positions. 



THE AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH 

 ASSOCIATION 



The fiftieth annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Public Health Association will be the 

 occasion of a Health Fortnight. From ISTo- 

 vember 8-19, New York City will be the 

 scene of activities connected with this event, 

 and the publicity with its slogan, "Health 

 First," will stimulate interest throughout the 

 country. Health Fortnight will include three 

 major divisions — a Health Institute from No- 

 vember S-11; a Health Exposition, Novem- 

 ber 14-19; the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of 

 the American Public Health Association, No- 

 vember 14-19. 



The Public Health Exposition will be con- 

 ducted under the joint auspices of the De- 

 partment of Health of the City of New York 

 and the American Public Health Association. 

 Already allotments of space indicate that at 

 least two entire floors of the Grand Central 

 Palace will be occupied by the exhibitors. 

 The exhibits will include those of educational 



and philanthropic organizations and those of 

 commercial houses producing approved ar- 

 ticles of health value. The profits from the 

 sale of tickets, after the cost of the Exposi- 

 tion and the Convention are defrayed, will 

 be devoted to establishing nutritional clinics 

 for the benefit of undernourished children. 



The Health Institute from November 8-11 

 will present to visitors an opportunity to see 

 the operations of established methods applied 

 to various phases of public health work. About 

 forty demonstrations have been planned. 



Following the week of the Institute and the 

 observance of Health Sunday, will come the 

 opening of the scientific sessions, the meet- 

 ings of the American Public Health Associa- 

 tion in celebration of its semi-centennial. 

 The sessions will begin on November 14 and 

 the headquarters will be at the Hotel Astor. 

 The scope of the meetings is indicated by 

 their division into the following: General 

 Sessions, Public Health Administration, 

 Child Hygiene, Public Health Publicity and 

 Education, Laboratory Section, Yital Statis- 

 tics Section, Industrial Hygiene Section, and 

 Food and Drug Section. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Livingston Farrand will be installed 

 as president of Cornell University on October 

 20. 



Owing to a severe illness from which he is 

 slowly recovering. Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols is 

 unable at present to take up the work of the 

 presidency of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. 



Dr. Alexis Carrel has been elected a na- 

 tional associate of the French Academy of 

 Medierne, of whom there are only twenty. 



The College of Physicians of Philadelphia 

 has awarded the Alvarenga prize to an ex- 

 perimental study of the " Selective Bacterio- 

 static Action of Gentian Violet," by Dr. 

 John W. Churchman. 



Dr. Marie M. Long has been appointed 

 head of the department of child hygiene of the 

 city health department, Memphis, Tennessee. 



Professor G. W. O. Howe, of the City 



