March 17, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



287 



THE NEW BUILDING FOR FORESTRY AT 

 YALE UNIVERSITY 



Tale's new Forestry School building will 

 cost about $300,000 and will be situated on 

 Prospect Street, on the Sage-Pierson Square, 

 on which several large laboratories are being 

 erected, including the Osborne, Sloan, Harri- 

 man and Sterling structures. It is the gift of 

 "William H. Sage of Albany, a member of the 

 Tale class of '65. The architect is William 

 Adams Delano of New Tork City, Tale, '95. 



The ground slopes from north to south 

 abruptly and advantage has been taken of this 

 fact to gain a full lighted story in the base- 

 ment. While the building is three stories high 

 at the north, it is practically four at the south. 



The building will conform in architectural 

 treatment and material with the others on this 

 quadrangle. It will be of fireproof construc- 

 tion, with slate roof. The ground floor will 

 contain the Forest Club room with a fireplace 

 and ample windows to the west. Wood for the 

 panels has been offered by the New Tork 

 Lumber Trade Association and a great variety 

 of woods will be used without destroying the 

 architectural quality of the room. On the same 

 floor will be the laboratory for testing woods, 

 requiring heavy machinery and solid founda- 

 tions. 



On the first floor is the library, a room 24 by 

 40 feet and 14 feet high, which will be divided 

 into alcoves by book cases. This will be purely 

 a departmental library. On this floor will also 

 be the administrative offices, and a large lecture 

 or assembly room to seat about 150 people. 



On the second floor will be two class rooms, 

 a drafting room and a silver-culture laboratory, 

 besides private work rooms for the staff. The 

 top floor under the roof will be well lighted by 

 skylights and will give ample working space 

 for the main laboratory, the herbarium, and 

 wood collections, and some special research 

 rooms. 



The corridors on the library and top floors 

 have been made amply wide to give room for 

 eases of specimens. They serve, therefore, the 

 double purpose of corridor and museum. A 

 freight elevator in the southeast corner accessi- 

 ble from the roadway will make it possible to 

 lift heavy objects to every floor. 



THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE ON 

 PUBLIC HEALTH 



There was held this week under the auspices 

 of the United States Public Health Service in 

 Washington a conference of deans of schools 

 of public health and medical schools, presidents 

 of universities with which these schools are 

 connected, a selected number of professors of 

 public health subjects and men actively en- 

 gaged in public health work, on "The Future 

 of Public Health in the United States and the 

 Education of Sanitarians." 



After considering the present status of the 

 public health movement and present facilities 

 for the education of health officers and other 

 sanitarians, the conference considered various 

 newer aspects of public health and their im- 

 portance in the training of sanitarians; the 

 various kinds of sanitarians which will be 

 needed for the future; the recruiting and train- 

 ing of more and better sanitarians; and the 

 various problems connected with the training 

 of sanitarians for the future and the further 

 education of those who are now employed in 

 public health work. 



Among those expected to take part in the 

 conference were Presidents James R. Angell, 

 Livingston Farrand, Frank J. Goodnow, Ray 

 Lyman Wilbur; Deans Hugh Cabot, William 

 Darrach, David L. Edsall; Professors Allen W. 

 Freeman, E. O. Jordan, Roger Perkins, Mazyck 

 P. Ravenel, Milton J. Rosenau, George C. 

 Whipple, Jesse F. Williams, C.-E. A. Winslow; 

 Drs. Lewellys F. Barker, Walter H. Brown, 

 John A. Ferrell, Lee K. Frankel, Otto P. Geier, 

 Frederick R. Green, Vernon Kellogg, John H. 

 Stokes, Victor C. Vaughan, George E. Vincent, 

 William A. White, Hubert Work, also Drs. 

 S. J. Crumbine, Hugh S. Cumming, Eugene 

 R. Kellej-, L. L. Lumsden, A. T. McCormack, 

 A. M. Stimson and Allan J. McLaughlin, of 

 the United States Public Health Service and 

 the various state boards of health. 



The announcement of the meeting says : 

 The rapid development of the public health 

 movement in the United States, the shortage of 

 trained public health officers and the present 

 inadequate facilities for their education has 

 brought about a situation which, in its opinion, 

 merits a thorough consideration not only by lead- 



