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asked for or while exemption claims are pend- 

 ing. It leads to endless confusion. 



Don't try to deprive anotlier chemist actu- 

 ally in the Army of his opportunity to render 

 chemical service by yourself seeking such serv- 

 ice, until called. The industries which supply 

 the Army and Navy with the sinews of war 

 need trained chemists and are being seriously 

 handicapped by the depletion of their chemical 

 personnel. 



, Don't write to anyone in Washington to aid 

 you in a claim for exemption. Even if they 

 wished to do so, they are quite properly power- 

 less for the law delegates exemption to the Lo- 

 cal and District Boards. 



Do send me your name, address, military 

 and camp assignment when actually sworn in 

 (not before). If you have not already filed de- 

 tails of your age, training and experience, send 

 this also at the same time. 



Chaeles L. Parsons, 



Secretary 



American Chemical Society, 

 Bos 505, 

 Washington, D. C. 



the mayo foundation 



At the meeting of the board of regents of 

 the University of Minnesota held on Septem- 

 ber 13, the regents adopted the following reso- 

 lution thanking the Drs. Mayo for their gift 

 establishing the Mayo Foundation for medical 

 investigation and research: 



Whereas, Dr. WiUiam J. Mayo and Dr. Chas. 

 H. Mayo, of Rochester, Minnesota, have given the 

 sum of $1,650,344.79 to the University of Minne- 

 sota for the estabUshnient of a fund to be known 

 as the "Mayo Foundation for Medical Education 

 and Eeseareh, ' ' and, 



Whereas, This gift has been duly accepted by 

 unanimous action of the board of regents, 



Therefore, he it Besolved, That the board of re- 

 gents records its profound sense of gratitude to the 

 donors. The gift is unique in the annals of Amer- 

 ican education. It represents the lofty purposes of 

 two of the most distinguished citizens of our com- 

 monwealth. They believe that this money has 

 come from the people and that it should be returned 

 to the people. It has been the sole aim of the 

 donors to provide a fund which would be of perma- 

 nent benefit to the state of Minnesota and to man- 

 kind as a whole. They have wisely and appropri- 



ately provided that the income of the fund shall 

 be used for medical education and research. 

 American universities should be encouraged in the 

 prosecution of an educational policy which aims to 

 develop investigators and scientists of the first 

 rank. One clear function of a true university is 

 to make actual contributions to various fields of 

 knowledge. This new foundation, therefore, re- 

 lates itself very intimately to the realization of our 

 highest educational aims. Both for the gift itself 

 and for the genuLne impetus which it will impart to 

 scholarly investigation in this university, we desire 

 to convey to the donors our sincere appreciation. 



THE CONNAUGHT LABORATORIES OF THE 

 UNIVERSITY OF. TORONTO 



The Connaught Laboratories of the Univer- 

 sity of Toronto, and a farm of fifty acres, 

 were formally presented by Colonel Albert 

 Gooderham, to the University of Toronto and 

 at the same time officially opened by the Gov- 

 ernor General, the Dulce of Devonshire, on Oc- 

 tober 25. The value of the gift is about sev- 

 enty-five thousand dollars. The laboratories 

 are to be used for the purpose of research in 

 preventive medicine and for the production of 

 serums and vaccines. Sir William Hearst, the 

 premier of Ontario, at the opening, announced 

 that a grant of seventy-five thousand dollars 

 would be authorized at the next session of the 

 legislature, to establish a research foundation 

 in preventive medicine. The income from this 

 and also from an additional twenty-five thou- 

 sand dollars, will be used for research only, 

 the laboratories being self-supporting. This is 

 the first endowment of research in preventive 

 medicine in Canada. In connection with the 

 official opening of these laboratories, a lecture 

 was delivered in Convocation HaU, on the 

 same evening by Dr. Simon Flexner, director 

 of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search, on the " War activities of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute." A distinguished audience, 

 including the Governor General and the Lieu- 

 tenant Governor, attended this most interest- 

 ing and able lecture. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE FEDERATION 

 OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERI- 

 MENTAL BIOLOGY 



The annual meeting of the Federation of 

 American Societies for Experimental Biology 



