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ject was to advance scientific medicine and to 

 benefit the American medical profession. The 

 board of trustees was of the opinion that the 

 association should publish more of these spe- 

 cial journals if, and when, there was a call for 

 them. Both the American Medical Directory 

 and the Quarterly Cumulative Medical Index 

 showed the efFects of the war and had been 

 published at a considerable loss. The house 

 of delegates approved a motion providing that 

 the publication of a Journal of Surgery be 

 considered and also the publication of a Jour- 

 nal of Medicine for lay readers, if the house 

 found such a procedure advisable. 



THE RAMSAY MEMORIAL FUND 



A MEETING of subscribers to the Ramsay Me- 

 morial Fund was held on June 5, at Univer- 

 sity College, London, for the purpose of con- 

 sidering plans to be submitted by the execu- 

 tive committee with respect to the progress of 

 the fund and to the objects to which the fund 

 should be devoted. The total amount already 

 given or promised amounts to £42,794 10s. 9d. 

 This sum includes the following contributions 

 by the following overseas committees : Switzer- 

 land, £817 6s. 9d.; United States of America, 

 £626 15s. lOd.; Japan, £500 9s. 2d.; India, 

 £397 8s. 4d.; Italy, £395 16s. 8d.; Denmark, 

 £225; 'NoTwa.j, £186 6s. 7d.; Chile, £128 6s. 8d.; 

 Holland, £68 Is. 7d. ; Australia, £37 16s. ; New 

 Zealand £21 3s. 6d. It also includes £5,177 18s. 

 6d. collected by the Glasgow committee for a 

 Glasgow fellowship. Promises, either provis- 

 ional or definite, for the foundation of one, or 

 more than one, Ramsay Memorial Fellowship 

 have been received from the governments of 

 Italy, Japan, Spain, ^Norway, China and 

 Greece and other governments have the matter 

 under favorable consideration. 



More recently the committee of the Ramsay 

 Memorial Fund for the United States reports 

 the receipts of contributions totalling $4,700, 

 which after deduction of current expenses for 

 printing, postage, etc., will leave about £900 

 for transmission to the fund headquarters in 

 London. The committee had hoped to be able 

 to transmit at least £1,500 at this time, and 

 will therefore welcome further contributions. 



Checks should be sent to the chairman, Dr. 

 Charles Baskerville, 140th Street and Convent 

 Avenue, N"ew York, or to the treasurer, Mr. 

 William J. Matheson, 21 Burling Slip, New 

 York. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the meeting of the American Medical 

 Association held in Atlantic City last week, 

 Surgeon-General W. C. Braisted was elected 

 president. The meeting next year will be in 

 New Orleans. Other officers of the association 

 were elected as follows: First Vice-president, 

 D. L. Edsall, Boston; Second Vice-president, 

 Emery Marvel, Atlantic City; Third Vice- 

 president, Eugene S. Talbot, Chicago; Fourth 

 Vice-president, George H. Kress, Los Angeles; 

 Secretary, Alexander E. Craig, Chicago ; Treas- 

 urer, William Allen Pusey, Chicago; Speaker 

 of House of Delegates, Hubert Work, Pueblo, 

 Colo. ; Vice-speaher, Dwight H. Murray, Syra- 

 cuse, N. Y.; Trustees, Archibald Dowling, 

 Shreveport, La., A. R. Mitchell, Lincoln, Neb., 

 D. C. Brown, Danbury, Conn. ; Judicial Coun- 

 cil, Ira C. Chase, Ft. Worth, Tex. ; Council on 

 Health and Public Instruction, Haven Emer- 

 son, New York City; Council on Medical Edu- 

 cation, Arthur D. Bevan, Chicago ; Council on 

 Scientific Assembly, J. B. Blake, Boston. 



The eighty-seventh annual meeting of the 

 British Association will be held in Bourne- 

 mouth from September 9 to 13, under the 

 presidency of the Honorable Sir Charles Par- 

 sons, who wdll deliver an address dealing with 

 engineerng and the war. The following presi- 

 dents of sections have been appointed by the 

 council: A, Mathematical and Physical Sci- 

 ence, Professor Andrew Gray; B, Chemistry, 

 Professor P. Phillips Bedson; C, Geology, Dr. 

 J. W. Evans; D, Zoology, Dr. F. A. Dixey; E, 

 Geography, Professor L. W. Lyde; F, Eco- 

 nomic Science and Statistics, Sir Hugh Bell, 

 Bart.; G, Engineering, Professor J. E. Peta- 

 vel ; H, Anthropology, Professor Arthur Keith ; 

 I, Physiology, Professor D. Noel Paton; K, 

 Botany, Sir Daniel Morris; L, Educational 

 Science, Sir Napier Shaw, and M, Agriculture, 

 Professor W. Somerville. Evening discourses 

 will be delivered by Sir Arthur Evans on 



