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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LV, No. 1431 



President: W. S. Bayley, University of Illinois. 



Vice-president: W. G. Waterman, Northwestern 

 University. 



Secretary: C. Frank Phipps, State Teachers 

 College, DeKalb. 



Treasurer : W. F. Schulz, University of Illinois. 



Librarian: A. E. Crook, State Museum, Spring- 

 field. 



C. Frank Phipps, 



Secretary 



THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 

 OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 



The International Society' of the History of 

 Medicine was founded in Paris on October 8, 

 1921. It has for its object the study of the 

 history of medicine in all its branches and the 

 coordination of research work in these subjects. 

 A permanent committee has been established in 

 Paris consisting of delegates appointed by sec- 

 tions of the society in various countries. 



The society meets in congress every' three 

 years, and it has been decided to hold the next 

 meeting in London from July 17 to 22, 1922. 

 Meetings will be held at the Royal Society of 

 Medicine, the Boyal College of Physicians, the 

 Eoyal College of Surgeons, the Wellcome His- 

 torical Medical Musevmi and elsewhere. There 

 will be special exhibitions of objects connected 

 with the history of medicine, surgery and the 

 allied sciences. The loan of any objects of 

 special interest from members will be greatly 

 appreciated by the executive committee. 



Communications are invited from members on 

 subjects connected with the history of medicine 

 in all its branches. The following subjects 

 have been suggested for communication and 

 discussion, but are by no means intended to ex- 

 elude papers on any subject of general interest 

 in connection with the history of medicine : 



1. The principal seats of epidemic and en- 

 demic diseases in the Occident and Orient in 

 the Middle Ages, including plague, gangrenous 

 ergotism, leprosy and malaria. 



2. The history of anatomy. 



3. The revival of medical knowledge during 

 the sixteenth century. 



Communications should be addressed to : The 

 General Secretary, Dr. J. D. RoUeston, 21, 

 Alexandi'a Mansions, King's Road, London, 

 S. W. 3. 



The other officers are : President of honor, 

 Sir Norman Moore, Bart., M.D.; vice-presi- 

 dents of honor. Sir D'Arcy Power, K.B.E., 

 F.R.C.S., Professor Menetrier, Professor 

 Jeanselme, Dr. Tricot-Royer ; president of con- 

 gress, Charles Singer, M.D. ; treasurer, W. G. 

 Spencer, O.B.E., M.S. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The Croonian lecture was delivered before 

 the Royal Society on June 1, by Dr. T. H. Mor- 

 gan, professor of experimental zoology in 

 Columbia University. His subject was "The 

 mechanism of heredity." 



Dr. Ross G. Harrison, of Yale University, 

 has been elected an honorary member of the 

 Royal Academy of Medicine of Turin. 



Dr. William Bateson, F.R.S., director of 

 the John Innes Horticultural Institution at 

 Merton, Surrey, has been elected a trustee of 

 the British Museum, to fill the vacancy caused 

 l)y the death of Lord Harcourt. 



At the cjuarterly meeting of the Royal Col- 

 lege of Physicians at Edinburgh it was resolved 

 to otfer its honorary fellowship to Professor 

 Albert Calmette, of the Pasteur Institute, Paris, 

 on account of his distinguished services to 

 medical science. 



The University of St. Andrews will confer 

 the degree of LL.D. on July 7 on Sir P. R. 

 Scott Lang, emeritus professor of mathematics 

 in the university; on Dr. G. R. Marshall, pro- 

 fessor of materia mediea. University of Aber- 

 deen; and on Sir Harold J. Stiles, regius pro- 

 fessor of clinical surgery. University of Edin- 

 burgh. 



JoHX K. Haywood, chairman of the Insecti- 

 cide and Fungicide Board of the U. S. Bureau 

 of Chemistry, recently completed a quarter of 

 a century of service at the bureau, and was 

 the recipient of a gold watch from his present 

 and former colleagues. 



T. M. Bains, assistant professor of metal- 

 lurgy at the Missouri School of Mines and 

 Metallurgy at Rolla, Mo., 'has accepted the 

 position of geologist with the Moctezuma Cop- 

 per Company, Pilares de Macodari, Sonora, 

 Mexico. 



