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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LV, No. 1426 



Hygiene had begun work in the previous No- 

 vember, when a telegram of congratulation, an- 

 nouncing that the first lectures had been given, 

 had been sent by the director, Lieutenant- 

 Colonel J. W. D. Megaw, I.M.S., to Sir Leonard 

 Rogers, who played the leading part in the 

 inception and carrying through of this great 

 enterprise. In the Journal of April 23, 1910 

 (p. 1010), the very great advantages which 

 Calcutta offered for the establishment of a 

 school of tropical medicine were pointed out; 

 not only is the variety of clinical eases illus- 

 trating tropical diseases unsurpassed, but there 

 is an excellent hospital and medical school, 

 with a highly qualified staff accustomed to 

 teaching, and for the greater part of the year 

 the climate is no drawback. Some eleven years 

 ago the general scheme for the school of trop- 

 ical medicine was worked out by Sir Leonard 

 Rogers, but its subsequent history has been 

 marked by many delays, not a few of them to 

 be traced to the war; the foundation stone was 

 actually laid by Lord Carmichael, governor of 

 Bengal, in February, 1914. The hospital has 

 accommodation for about 100 patients, Euro- 

 pean and Indian, while the school has chairs of 

 tropical medicine, pathology and bacteriology, 

 protozoology, pharmacology, serology, public 

 health, and chemistry, to which appointments 

 have already been made; professors of hygiene, 

 entomology, and biochemistry have still to be 

 appointed. In addition, there are assistant pro- 

 fessors of the chief subjects, and a number of 

 special research appointments have been made. 

 The nucleus of a reference library has been 

 formed, mainly by gifts from Sir Leonard 

 Rogers. In the report of the director for 1921 

 it is stated that classes will shortly be opened 

 for the diploma in public health of Calcutta 

 University; classes for the diploma ia tropical 

 medicine have already begun. The director con- 

 siders that the resalt of the first year's working 

 has entirely removed the doubts and feai-s which 

 assailed him when he entered on his responsible 

 duties. Considerable progress has also been 

 made in the research laboratories, and reports 

 have been published of work in connection with 

 leprosy and kalazar and filariasis, and on the 

 work of the hookworm laboratory. 



FIELD WORK OF THE MUSEUM OF 



ZOOLOGY OF THE UNIVERSITY 



OF MICHIGAN 



DuEiNG the next fiscal year, which begins on 

 July 1, the Museum of Zoology of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan will carry on field work in 

 Michigan, California, Washington, Oregon, 

 North Dakota, Tennessee, Curacao, Panama, 

 Mexico, Brazil and British Guiana. 



Fifteen persons will be in the field: Carl 

 L. Hubbs, Norman A. Wood, Lee R. Rice, 

 Mina Winslow, Frederick M. Gaige, Helen T. 

 Gage, Theodore H. Hubbell, and Alexander G. 

 Ruthven, of the museum staff, and Crystal 

 Thompson (Amherst College), Robert Hatt 

 (University of Michigan), Holland Hussey 

 (Bussey Institution), Horace B. Baker (Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania), Thomas L. Hankin- 

 son (Michigan State Normal School), and Jesse 

 Williamson and John Strohm of Bluffton, 

 Indiana, 



The work in North Dakota will be done in 

 cooperation with the North Dakota Biological 

 Station, of which Professor R. T. Young is 

 director. 



The work in western Brazil is under way 

 and is being directed by Jesse Williamson. 

 The party \vill remain in the field until some- 

 time next year. 



BRANCHES OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL 

 CORPORATION 



Executive committees for branches of the 

 Psychological Corporation have been organized 

 in several states as follows: 



Massachusetts: William McDougall, chairman; 

 Herbert S. Langfeld (Harvard University), sec- 

 retary; Edwin G. Boring, W. F. Dearborn, W. E. 

 Miles, Daniel Starch, P. L. Wells. 



Pennsylvania: W. V. Bingham, cliai/rman; 

 E. K. Strong, Jr. (Carnegie Institute of Tech- 

 nology), secretary; Clarence E. Ferree, Francis 

 N. Maxfield, B. V. Moore, J. H. White, Lightner 

 Witmer. 



Ohio: George F. Arps, chairman; Harold E. 

 Burtt, (Ohio State University), secretary; B. B. 

 Breese, B. K. Buckingham, Henry H. Goddard, 

 H. M. Johnson, Garry C. Myers. 



Michigan: W. B. Pillsbury, cliairman; H. P. 

 Adams (University of Michigan), secretary; 



