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SCIENCE 



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Lea^e; Professor Ernest G. Martin, Leland 

 Stanford University; Dr. J. W. Schere- 

 schewsky, Public Health Service; Dr. Ernest 

 L. Scott, Ooliambia University. The com- 

 mittee is investigating- munition factories and 

 other industrial establishments that are manu- 

 facturing war supplies, vidth the view of show- 

 ing how avoidable fatigue may be eliminated 

 and how th'e greatest output of the necessities 

 of war may be secured compatible with the 

 maintenance of the working-power of the 

 workers. 



Dr. Horace D. Arnold, of Boston, has been 

 elected chairman of the CourLcil on Medical 

 Education of the American Medical Associa- 

 tion, succeeding Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan, of 

 Chicago. 



Dr. Leverett D. Bristol has been appointed 

 state health commissioner of Maine. 



Dr. J. Ehrlich has been appointed chief 

 chemist of the Verona • Chemical Company, 

 North Newark, N. J. 



Sir George Newman, chief medical officer 

 of the British Board of Education, has joined 

 the committee appointed by the president of 

 the Board of Agriculture to investigate the 

 production and distribution of milk. 



Sir Malcolm Morris has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Institute of Hygiene, London, in 

 succession to Sir William Bennett, who has 

 held the post for the past ten years, and will 

 continue his association with the institute as 

 vice-president. 



The Harben gold medal of the Eoyal Insti- 

 tute of Public Health of Great Britain, given 

 every third year for eminent services rendered 

 to the public health, has been awarded this 

 year to Surgeon-General Sir Alfred Keogh, 

 G.C.B., director-general of the Army Medical 

 Service, and the gold medal for conspicuous 

 services rendered to the cause of preventive 

 medicine to Dr. E. W. Hope, M.O.H. for the 

 city and port of Liverpool, and professor of 

 public health in the university. 



As has been noted in Science the annual 

 meeting of the British Association has been 

 given up. We learn from Nature that meet- 

 ings of the organizing committees of the 

 various sections, the delegates of correspond- 



ing societies, the committee of recommenda- 

 tions, and the general committee have now 

 been held. It has been decided to continue 

 Sir Arthur Evans in the presidency for 

 another year, while the Hon. Sir C. A. 

 Parsons, who would have presided over this 

 year's meeting, will do so at the meeting 

 which it is hoped will take place as arranged 

 at Cardiff next year. The meeting this year 

 would have been at Bournemouth, and that 

 borough has repeated its invitation, which 

 has been accepted, for 1919. Grants amount- 

 ing to £286 were made in aid of such re- 

 searches as were regarded as essential to carry 

 on, having regard to present conditions. The 

 new members of the council of the Associa- 

 tion are Dr. E. F. Armstrong, llr. J. H. 

 Jeans, Professor A. Keith, Professor W. H. 

 Perkin, and Mr. W. Whitaker. 



We learn from The British Medical Journal 

 that at a recent meeting of the administra- 

 tive council of the Pasteur Institute, Paris, 

 Dr. Albert Calmette, director of the Pasteur 

 Institute at Lille, and Dr. Louis Martin, 

 director of the Pasteur Hospital, were tman- 

 imously appointed subdirectors in the room 

 of Dr. Chamberland and Professor Metehni- 

 koff. Dr. Chamberland, who died in 1908, has 

 had no successor till now. Dr. Calmette, who 

 founded the Pasteur Institute at Saigon, has 

 taken a leading part in the campaign against 

 tuberculosis in Prance, and Dr. Martin, who 

 has been associated with the Paris Institute 

 since 1902, has made researches on the bac- 

 teriology of diphtheria, the prophylaxis of 

 contagious diseases, tuberculous meningitis, 

 tetanus, anthrax, and sleeping sickness. At 

 the same meeting M. Vallery-Eadot, Pasteur's 

 son-in-law and biographer, was elected presi- 

 dent of the administrative council. 



Dr. Harold C. Bradley, professor of physio- 

 logical chemistry in the University of Wis- 

 consin, recently delivered an address on " Auto- 

 lysis and the mechanism governing atrophy 

 and hypertrophy of tissues " before the faculty 

 and students of the graduate sunmaer quarter 

 in medicine of the University of Illinois. 



Professor G. A. Miller, of the University 

 of Illinois, will contribute the article on 

 mathematics for the 1917 edition of the 



