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SCIENCE 



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of the corporation will, however, be done by 

 psychologists in existing laboratories. 



At the first meeting of the directors the fol- 

 lowing officers were elected: 



President : J. McKeen Cattell. 



First vice-president: Walter Dill Scott. 



Second vice-president: Lewis M. Terman. 



Chairman of the hoard: Edward L. Thorndike. 



Secretary and Treasurer: Dean E. Brimhall. 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 

 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS! 



The Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies 

 (Burlington House, London, W. 1) proposes to 

 provide a world list of periodical publications 

 which contain the results of original scientific 

 research. It is hoped that it will be possible 

 to give in a single octavo volume the titles, 

 in alphabetical order, and the places of publi- 

 cation of all such periodicals in existence on 

 January 1, 1900, and of all issued after that 

 date. The libraries in London, Oxford, Cam- 

 bridge, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Aberystwyth, 

 which take in such periodicals, would be in- 

 dicated, and, wherever possible, at least one 

 library in the United Kingdom would be men- 

 tioned for each periodical. The scheme aims at 

 supplying a complete list of current scientific 

 periodicals; and, if means are found to carry 

 it out, may form a basis of cooperation be- 

 tween libraries, so that both the number of 

 duplicates and the list of periodicals not re- 

 ceived may be reduced. The trustees of the 

 British Museum have consented to allow the 

 compilation of the list to be undertaken by 

 the staff of the Museum, and already a large 

 bulk of material has been collected in the 

 museum by various societies and by the con- 

 joint board. The Museum, however, can not 

 undertake to defray the cost of printing and 

 publication, but it is hoped that a sufficient 

 number of libraries and institutions wQl agree 

 in advance to pui'chase one or more copies at 

 the price of 2 guineas each. The preliminary 

 announcement which has been issued does not 

 attempt to define a scientific periodical, but 

 we apprehend that it is intended to exclude 



1 From the Britisli Medical Journal. 



technical publications. It is not clear whether 

 periodicals devoted to medicine would be in- 

 cluded, and we understand that the point has 

 not yet been decided. All departments of medi- 

 cine, hygiene, and pathology, however, suffer 

 more or less from the difficulty described, but 

 it is felt to a very special degree by workers 

 in these subjects in their application to the 

 tropics; in particular the literature on helmin- 

 thology, and indeed on parasitology generally, 

 is very scattered, and papers which turn out 

 to be of importance may be published in out-of- 

 the-way periodicals, in the transactions of local 

 societies, or in periodicals primarily devoted 

 to some other science, as for instance entomo- 

 logy. Some time ago Professor R. T. Leiper, 

 Director of the Department of Helminthology 

 at the London School of Tropical Medicine, 

 suggested that a list, showing the libraries in 

 London and Liverpool at which periodicals 

 publishing papers on tropical medicine could 

 be consulted, would be of great use to workers, 

 who at present may waste much time in mak- 

 ing visits to libraries which do not contain 

 the periodical they want or the particular num- 

 ber they wish to consult. The matter was 

 brought to the notice of the Science Committee 

 of the British Medical Association, which recog- 

 nized the importance of the suggestion and in 

 consequence a small sum of money was voted 

 to cover preliminary expenses. A number of 

 libraries have now been examined under Dr. 

 Leiper's direction and a considerable amount of 

 material collected, which it is hoped may short- 

 ly be made available. The manuscript list has 

 been brought up to date and can now, we be- 

 lieve, be consulted at the School of Tropical 

 Medicine. 



THE GORGAS MEMORIAL INSTITUTE 



The American Public Health Association at 

 its fiftieth annual meeting, held in New York 

 City November 14-18, 1921, adopted the fol- 

 lowing resolution authorizing the president of 

 the association to appoint a committee of five 

 to cooperate with the organizers and directors 

 of the proposed Gorgas Memorial Institute : 



Wheeeas, The late WiUiam Crawford Gorgas, 

 surgeon general of the United States Army, freed 



