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[Vol. LV. No. 1410. 



purpose in view tlie university has recently 

 acquired most of the city block bounded by 

 Cedar, Broad, Palmer and Rose streets where 

 the dispensary now stands, opposite the New 

 Haven Hospital. 



The Sterling Hall of Medicine will have a 

 central entrance and building at the corner of 

 Broad and Cedar streets containing a library 

 of approximately 12,000 volumes, an amphi- 

 theater with a seating capacity of about 250, 

 the administrative offices of the dean and 

 registrar, a room for faculty use, students' 

 common room, and on the third and fourth 

 floors single rooms and suites for unmarried 

 instructors in the pre-clinical subjects. Ex- 

 tending along Broad street a wing will provide 

 space and laboratories on the first and second 

 floors for the department of physical physi- 

 ology, with like provision on the third and 

 fourth floors for the department of pharma- 

 cology and toxicology. A similar wing facing 

 the Brady Laboratory and the administration 

 building of the New Haven Hospital on Cedar 

 street will provide on the first and second 

 floors space for the department of chemical 

 physiology, the two upper floors being given 

 over to laboratory space for anatomy. Beyond 

 the central structure wiU be an animal house 

 where various tj'pes of domestic animals will be 

 kept for experimentation and observation, 

 these being available for all departments of 

 the university located in the vicinity of the hos- 

 pital. The power house, designed on the unit 

 basis with stack and bunkers of sufficient 

 capacity for future requirements of the hos- 

 pital and the school, will be situated at the 

 corner opposite to the central building. 



Daj' & Klauder, of Philadelphia, are the 

 architects of the Sterling Hall of Medicine. 

 One of the features of this building will be the 

 provision for future expansion as the needs 

 of the School of Medicine require and its 

 finances permit. This means the ultimate 

 completion of the quadrangle. 



One of the features of the expansion of the 

 Yale School of Medicine has been its closer 

 affiliation with the New Haven Hospital and 

 the Dispensary. In addition the finances of 

 the hospital have been placed on a stronger 

 footing and the physical rehabilitation has been 

 begun. 



Placing the faculty of the Medical School on 

 a university basis of full time organization in 

 the clinical service has been an imj)ortant step 

 in the consolidation of the work of the Med- 

 ical School and the New Haven Hospital. With 

 the beginning of the fall term of the present 

 year all four of the clinical departments of 

 the School of Medicine have been placed on 

 such a basis. 



THE CROP PROTECTION INSTITUTE 

 The first annual meeting of the Crop Protec- 

 tion Institute will be held at Rochester, N. Y., 

 in connection with the New York Horticultural 

 Society's meeting. A dinner will be jDrovided 

 on January 12 at the Rochester Chamber of 

 Commerce. 



Among those taking part on the program 

 will be Professor W. C. O'Kane of the New 

 Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 and chairman of the board of governors of the 

 Crop Protection Institute, who will speak on 

 the ideals of the institute; Dr. L. R. Jones, 

 chairman of the Division of Biology and Agri- 

 culture of the National Research Council, 

 whose theme will be the "Relation of Environ- 

 ment to Disease and Disease Resistance of 

 Plants"; Dr. R. W. Thatcher, director of the 

 New York Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 who will speak informally on the "Need for 

 Investigations in the Chemistry of Insecticides 

 and Fungicides." Prom the standpoint of 

 industry, Mr. G. R. Cushman, of the General 

 Chemical Company, will speak briefly. Pro- 

 fessor P. J. Parrott, of the New York 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, will also 

 probably speak on "Paradichlorobenzene." 



The Crop Protection Institute, which has a 

 membership of about three hundred and fifty 

 prominent entomologists, plant patholo- 

 gists, agricultural chemists and manufacturers 

 of insecticides and fungicides and others inter- 

 ested in the protection of all kinds of crops, 

 was organized only a year ago, under the 

 auspices of the National Research Council of 

 Washington, D. C. The purpose of the insti- 

 tute is not to duplicate the work of individuals 

 or other organizations, but to bring about 

 closer cooperation of effort, to strengthen the 

 weak places and develop needed investigations 

 that are not lieing pursued by other agencies. 



