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The fellowsliip at all times must be used for 

 purposes of serious study, and the fellow 

 should be as free as possible from other re- 

 sponsibilities. 



Applications for the year beginning Sep- 

 tember 15, 1918, should be made under the 

 above heads, and must be in the hands of the 

 secretary of the committee, Mrs. Charles S. 

 Hinchman, 3635 Chestnut Street, Philadel- 

 phia, Pennsylvania, on or before April 1, 1918. 

 Professor Mary W. Whitney, 



director emeritus of Vassar College 

 Observatory, honorary chairman, 

 Annie J. Cannon, A.M., 



curator of astronomical photographs, 

 Harvard College Observatory, 

 chairman. 

 Professor Edward C. Pickering, Sc.D., 

 director of Harvard College Ob- 

 servatory, 

 Professor Anne S. Young, Ph.D., 



director of Mt. Holyoke Observatory, 

 Professor John C. Duncan, Ph.D., 



director of Whitin Observatory, Wel- 

 lesley. Mass, 

 Elizabeth E. Coffin, A.B., 



Vassar College, 1870 N^antucket, 

 Mass., 

 Florence M. Cushing, A.B., 



Yassar College, 1874, Boston, 

 Lydu. S. Hinchman, 



secretary, 3635 Chestnut Street, Phil- . 

 adelphia. 



Committee 



AN AMERICAN HOSPITAL IN LONDON 



The United States Ambassador, who was 

 accompanied by Mrs. Page, recently opened 

 St. Katherine's Lodge, Regent's Park, as a 

 hospital for American and British officers. 



The house, in the Outer Circle, Regent's 

 Park, with grounds of about four acres, has 

 been equipped for about 40 patients by Mr. 

 and Mrs. William Salomon, of New York, 

 owners of the lease, who will maintain it for 

 the duration of the war. It is controlled by 

 the London Chapter of the American Red 

 Cross, and is the first American Red Cross 

 Hospital established in Europe. It is fitted 



to accommodate orthopaedic cases. The 

 United States War Department recruited 20 

 of the most prominent orthopsedic surgeons 

 in the United States and sent them to Eng- 

 land under the command of Major Goldthwait, 

 of Boston. Two of these surgeons, who are 

 attached to the Shepherd's Bush Military 

 Orthopedic Hospital, Captain F. Kidner, of 

 Detroit, and Captain de Forrest Willard, of 

 Philadelphia, have been chosen as the nucleus 

 of the medical unit at St. Katherine's Lodge, 

 under the general supervision of Colonel Sir 

 Robert Jones. It is hoped that both British 

 and American officers will be treated at the 

 hospital throughout the war. The nursing stafP 

 will be American. 



For work other than orthopsedic the follow- 

 ing London physicians and surgeons have 

 offered their services on the staff. 



Colonel Donald Armour, Dr. A. P. Beddard, Sir 

 James Mackenzie Davidson, Dr. H. J. Banks 

 Davis, Dr. Guy Leroy Gillett, Captain Charles T. 

 W. Hirsch, Mr. Herbert Parsons, Mr. F. J. Pearce, 

 Dr. George Pernet, Dr. Hugh E. Phillips, Surgeon- 

 General Sir G. H. Makins and Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Hugh M. Eigby. 



The following are members of a committee 

 of control: 



Viscountess Harcourt, Mrs. Walter Hines Page, 

 Mrs. Whitelaw Eeid, Mrs. L. P. Sheldon, Mrs. "Wil- 

 liam Salomon, Mrs. L. P. Sheldon, Mr. William 

 Salomon, Colonel Sir Walter Lawrence (represent- 

 ing the British War Office) and Mr. L. P. Shel- 

 don (chairman). 



Among others present yesterday were Sir A. 

 Keogh, Surgeon-General Sir G. H. Makins, 

 General Nassiter, and Commander Badcock 

 (representing Admiral Sims). 



Mr. Page said he had to acknowledge the 

 great generosity of the donors and the suc- 

 cessful work of Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon and the 

 American Red Cross. It was gratifying to 

 find the work well started in London, and the 

 organization already making itself useful. 

 The hospital differed from others in that it 

 would give orthopEedic treatment to officers. 

 He was told that 70 per cent, of cases yielded 

 to the treatment which had been developed 

 under the leadership of Sir Robert Jones. 



