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facture of S. M. A. — an artificial food adapted 

 to mother's milk and developed by Dr. H. J. 

 Gerstenberger, medical director of The Babies' 

 Dispensary and Hospital and professor of 

 Pediatrics of Western Reserve University Medi- 

 cal School, who has transferred all of his 

 rights to The Babies' -Dispensary and Hos- 

 pital. 



S. M. A. is said to represent an improve- 

 ment over the older attempts at making an arti- 

 ficial food for infants more like human milk 

 in that it contains a fat that in its saponiiiea- 

 tion, iodine, and Reiehert-Meissl numbers is 

 like the fat of woman's milk, and in that it 

 further possesses decided anti-spasmophilic 

 and anti-rachitic powers. The latter are at least 

 partly due to the, use of eodliver oil in the mak- 

 ing of the S. M. A. fat. 



S. M. A. was fed to dispensary and hospital 

 infants under careful supervision from 1915 

 to 1920. During January, 1920, it was made 

 available to the medical profession of Cleve- 

 land with excellent results, as can be realized 

 from the increase in sales per month, being 

 1,000 quarts at the beginning and 20,000 quarts 

 during December, 1921. During November, 

 1920, S. M. A. was put up in powder form, 

 and a year later was made available to the 

 medical profession throughout the country. 



As a result of this contract the Babies' Dis- 

 jjensary will receive a minimum of $10,000 per 

 year. To meet the request of Dr. H. J. Gersten- 

 berger, the contract contains a clause limiting 

 the use of the funds to research purposes. 



Inasmuch as The Babies Dispensary and Hos- 

 pital will be the future department of pedia- 

 trics of Western Reserve University Medical 

 School, it is hoped that this accomplishment 

 will aid in the prompt development of the 

 pediatric unit of the new medical group of 

 Western Reserve University. 



PROFESSOR J. W. TOUMEY AND THE YALE 

 SCHOOL OF FORESTRY 



Appeeciation of the part played by Dean 

 J. W. Tourney, of the Yale School of Forestry, 

 in securing Mr. Henry S. Graves as his succes- 

 sor, and satisfaction in the former's decision 

 to continue in the service of the university as 



Morris K. Jesup professor of silviculture, is 

 expressed in a vote passed by the Yale Cor- 

 poration. It was due to Professor Tourney's 

 initiative and wish that efforts were made to 

 induce Mr. Graves to return to the university as 

 head of the School of Forestry. The vote of 

 the corporation follows : 



Voted, in accepting, at the request of Professor 

 .James W. Tourney, his resignation as dean of the 

 School of Forestry, to record the satisfaction of 

 the president and fellows that he is to remain in 

 Yale's service as Morris K. Jesup professor of 

 silviculture, and to spread upon tlie minutes of 

 the corporation an expression of its gratitude to 

 him for Ms successful administration as acting 

 director and then as dean. During this, and due 

 to his untiring interest and enthusiasm, this 

 3'oungest of Yale's schools has gained largely in 

 endowment, extended its educational scope, and 

 added both to its equipment in New Haven and 

 to its facilities for instruction in the field through 

 the acquisition of the school forests in Connecti- 

 cut and in New Hampshire. The corporation 

 recognizes with pride and gratitude that no other 

 school of Yale University has enjoyed a more 

 remarkable and better planned development than 

 has the School of Forestry under Dean Tourney 's 

 administration, the close of which is fittingly 

 marked by the successful consummation of two 

 projects nearest his heart. One of these is the 

 acquisition by the School of Forestry of a build- 

 ing adequate for its needs; the other is the return 

 to Y'"ale University as head of the school of 

 Henry S. Graves, B.A. 1892. The fact that the 

 movement to bring the latter back as dean 

 originated with Professor Toumey is but one 

 (Example from many which might be cited of his 

 desire to see the school take advantage of every 

 opportunity before it and of his constant, loyal 

 :ind unselfish devotion to its welfare. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The annual meeting of the National Aca- 

 demy of Sciences will be held at the United 

 States National Museum, Washington, on 

 April 24, 25 and 26. 



Dr. George E. Hale has resigned as presi- 

 dent of the Pacific Division of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science to 

 attend the meeting of the International Re- 

 search Council in Brussels. Dr. Barton Warren 



