March 10, 1922] 



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the direction of Dr. William H. Welch the 

 school has made substantial progress in the 

 four years since it was established. Twenty- 

 seven states and ten foreign countries are now 

 represented in the student body numbering 131. 

 The faculty of the school comprises scientists 

 in the fields of bacteriology and immunology, 

 sanitary engineering chemical hygiene, physio- 

 logical li3-giene, medical zoology, epidemiology, 

 vital statistics and public health administration. 



The regular courses of stud3' lead to the de- 

 grees of doctor of public health, doctor of 

 science in hygiene, and bachelor of science in 

 hygiene. A certificate in public health is given 

 to those completing certain special courses. 

 Short courses or institutes are provided for 

 health workers in service who cannot be absent 

 from their positions for more than a few weeks 

 at a time. Last year thirty-six health officers 

 from eight states took these short intensive 

 courses. 



Up to this time the school has been housed 

 in old buildings, situated in the center of the 

 city of Baltimore, and formerly used by Johns 

 Hopkins University for laboratories of physics, 

 chemistry and biology. The present gift, in 

 addition to providing endowment, will make 

 possible the erection of the new building for 

 the school on a site adjacent to the Johns Hop- 

 kins Medical School and Hospital. 



Work on the main building, the plans for 

 which already have been drawn, is expected to 

 start this summer. It will be located on a site 

 which has already been acquired at the south- 

 east corner of Monument and Wolfe streets 

 and is so designed as to admit of its liberal 

 expansion. The contract for its erection will 

 be let as soon as the architects, Archer & Allen, 

 of Baltimore, have completed drawing the de- 

 tailed specifications. 



The enterprise will be part of a general 

 scheme of building to be started by the univer- 

 sity this year, including in addition to the new 

 school of hygiene, which will cost $1,000,000, 

 $800,000 for the new Woman's Clinic and a 

 new pathological building, the contracts for 

 which have already been let; $500,000 for a 

 new chemical laboratory at Homewood and be- 

 tween $400,000 and $500,000 for dormitories at 

 Homewood. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. John Caspee Beannee, the distin- 

 guished geologist, president emeritus of Leland 

 Stanford University, died on March 1 at the 

 age of 71 years. He was the second president 

 of the university, succeeding Dr. David Starr 

 Jordan, who now is chancellor emeritus. 



A MEETING to initiate the Gorgas Foundation 

 Memorial was held at Birmingham, Ala., on 

 March 4. Among the speakers was Sir Auck- 

 land Geddes, the British ambassador, who said : 

 "The name Gorgas will live long after the 

 peoples of earth have forgotten the heroes of 

 the world's greatest war." 



Dr. Hubert Work has taken the oath of 

 office as postmaster general. Dr. Work, whose 

 home is at Pueblo, Colorado, is president of 

 the American Medical Association. President 

 Harding's cabinet contains a physician and an 

 engineer, which represents a new development 

 of political institutions in the United States. 



Peofessoe Solon I. Bailet, of the Harvard 

 College Observatory, sailed on March 1 from 

 New York to Peru to take charge of the Har- 

 vard astronomical station at Arequipa. He is 

 accompanied by Mrs. Bailey and by Miss 

 Annie J. Cannon of the observatory staff. 



Dr. Heney H. Rusby, who was forced 

 through illness to quit the leadership of the 

 Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon 

 Basin, has arrived in New York, his health 

 being now much improved. Dr. Rusby turned 

 the leadership over to Dr. W. M. Mann, as- 

 sistant curator of the Division of Insects, Na- 

 tional Museum. Dr. 0. E. White, of Brooklyn 

 Botanical Gardens, has charge of the botanical 

 work. 



Peofessoe Douglas W. Johnson, of Colum- 

 bia University, delivered the Heilprin Memo- 

 rial Lecture before the Geographical Society 

 of Philadelphia on March 1. Preceding the 

 lecture. Professor Johnson received from Presi- 

 dent Bryant the Elisha Kent Kane Medal, 

 awarded to him by the council of the society. 



AccoEDiNG to a press dispatch the Belgian 

 geologist. Professor Scouppe, of the University 

 of Ghent, has just returned from the Belgian 

 Congo where he located two radium deposits. 



