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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XL VI. No. 1200 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



FREE PUBLIC MEDICAL LECTURES 



The faculty of medicine of Harvard Uni- 

 versity offers a course of free public lectures 

 on medical subjects to be given at the medical 

 school, Longwood Avenue, Boston, on Sunday 

 afternoons at four o'clock, beginning January 6 

 and ending April 21, 1918. 



January 6. Social hygiene and the war, Dr. Wm. 

 F. Snow, major, Medical Eeserve Corps, TJ. S. A. 



January 1.3. Surgical shock. Dr. W. T. Porter. 



January 20. Teeth and their relation to hviman 

 ailments; a plea for conservation, Dr. G. H. 

 Wright. 



January 27. Home nursing, with demonstra- 

 tions, Elizabeth Sullivan. 



February 3. Child welfare during the war. Dr. 

 Richard M. Smith. 



February 10. Child welfare, Miss Mary Beard. 



February 17. Shoes and structure of the foot. 

 Dr. E. H. Bradford. 



February 24. Social infection and the com- 

 munity. Bishop Lawrence. 



March 3. The deformed mouth of a child; its 

 effect on the child 's future, Dr. L. W. Baker. 



March 10. Food: how to save it. Dr. L. J. 

 Henderson. 



March 17. What to eat during the war, Dr. F. 

 W. White. 



March 24. Some aspects of fatigue, Dr. Percy 

 G. Stiles. 



March 31. Camp sanitation and control, and 

 hospital administration at Camp Devens, Dr. Glenn 

 I. Jones, major, Medical Corps, TJ. S. A. 



April 7. Accident and injury, first aid (with 

 simple demonstrations), Dr. J. Bapst Blake. 



April 14. Immunity to contagious disease, Dr. 

 E. H. Place. 



April 21. Hay fever and asthma. Dr. I. Chand- 

 ler Walker. 



April 28. Food administration during the war. 

 Dr. Julius Levy (under the National Food Commit- 

 tee). 



THE POPULAR MEDICAL LECTURES TO BE GIVEN AT 



THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL 



DURING JANUARY, FEBRUARY AND 



MARCH, 1918 



The program is as follows : 



January 4. The control of vice diseases among 

 troops through civil and military cooperation, Col- 

 onel L. U. Mans, TJ. S. Army. 



January 18. Surgery of the present war, Dr. 

 Leo Eloesser. 



February 1. Industrial fatigue, Professor E. G. 

 Martin. 



February 15. Food poisoning from canned 

 goods. Dr. E. C. Dickson. 



March 1. Eecent experiences of a medical man 

 in the war zone. Dr. WUliam P. Lucas, professor of 

 pediatrics. University of California. 



March 15. Circulation of the blood, Dr. A. A. 

 D 'Aneona. Illustrated with moving pictures. 



WARTIME WORK OF THE FOREST SERVICE 



How the work of the Forest Service was 

 realigned to meet war conditions is described 

 in the Annual Report of the Forester, which 

 in the absence of the head of the service is 

 made by Acting Forester A. F. Potter. The 

 report also states that practically every form 

 of use of the forests was greater than ever 

 before, that the receipts again touched a new 

 high level with a total of $3,457,028.41, and 

 that the increase in receipts over the previous 

 year was $633,487.70. 



" When the grazing charge has been ad- 

 vanced to cover the full value of the grazing 

 privilege," says the report, " the income from 

 the national forests will be close to the cost 

 of operation. The present annual cost is 

 about $4,000,000." An increase equal to that 

 of the last fiscal year " would close the gap." 



The Forester, Henry S. G'raves, is now 

 serving with the American Expeditionary 

 Forces in France, with a commission as lieu- 

 tenant colonel, in connection with the forest 

 ■ work for the supply of the needs of our over- 

 seas troops and those of the Allies. A num- 

 ber of other members of the Forest Service 

 reeived commissions in the Tenth Engineers 

 (Forest) while many more entered the raiiks. 



Wood and other forest products have al- 

 most innumerable uses in modern warfare. 

 Never before has the demand for exact knowl- 

 edge been so urgent. "In the work relating 

 to forest utilization and forest products, the 

 resources of the service have been employed to 

 the limit of their capacity since the war be- 

 gan in rendering assistance to the War and 

 Navy Departments, the Emergency Fleet 

 Corporation, various committees of the Coun- 



