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SCIENCE 



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the Condition of the Poor, the New York Skin 

 and Cancer Hospital and the Laboratory of 

 Surgical Eesearch of the ISTew York Univer- 

 sity, which were bequeathed $25,000 each, are 

 apportioned $23,883. The Metropolitan Mu- 

 seum of Art will get art objects worth $21,830. 

 Bequests to individuals are likewise reduced. 



The faculty of medicine of Harvard Uni- 

 versity oilers as usual this year a course of 

 free public lectures, to be given at the Medical 

 School, Longwood Avenue, on Sunday after- 

 noons, at four o'clock. The program follows: 



January 7. — Eev. Dr. Francis G. Peabody, "Al- 

 cohol and Efficiency." 



January 14.— Dr. Hugh Cabot, "The Care of 

 the Wounded with the British Expeditionary 

 Eorce in France." 



January 21. — Dr. E. W. Taylor, "Infantile Par- 

 alysis; Precautions Necessary and Unnecessary." 



January 28.— Dr. W. T. Porter, ' ' ' Shock ' in the 

 Trenches. ' ' 



February 4. — Dr. J. L. Morse, ' ' Feeding and Its 

 Eelation to the Infant's Development." 



February 11. — Dr. F. J. Cotton, "The Develop- 

 ment of Employer's Liability Insurance in Acci- 

 dent and Sickness." 



February 18. — Dr. E. H. Place, ' ' Does it Pay to 

 Have the Contagious Diseases during Childhood?" 



February 25. — Dr. Percy G. Stiles, "Sleep." 



March 4. — Dr. L. M. S. Miner, ' ' Diseases of the 

 Teeth and the Use of the S-ray in their Diagnosis 

 and Treatment." 



March 11.- — Miss Ida M. Cannon, "Social Serv- 

 ice in Medicine." 



March 18. — Dr. Cleveland Floyd, "Tuberculosis; 

 its Cause and Prevention." 



March 25. — ^Dr. W. B. Cannon, "Methods of 

 Medical Progress. ' ' 



April 1. — Dr. C. T. Brues, "Fleas and Other In- 

 sect Parasites in Their Eelation to Public Health. ' ' 



April 8. — Dr. J. Bapst Blake, "Accident and 

 Injury; First Aid" (with demonstration of simple 

 methods and materials). 



April 15. — Dr. Paul Thorndike, "Urinary 

 Troubles in Elderly Men" (to men only). 



April 22. — ^Dr. W. H. Eobey, "Some Facts and 

 Fancies about Heart Disease." 



A SERIES of popular medical lectures will be 

 given at the Stanford University Medical 

 School during January, February and March, 

 1917. The program is as follows:, 



January 12: "What Every One Should Know 



about Cancer," Dr. Harry M. Sherman, repre- 

 senting the American Society for the Control of 

 Cancer. 



January 26: "Modern Efforts to secure Pain- 

 less Childbirth," Dr. Frank W. Lynch, professor 

 of obstetrics and gynecology. University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



February 9: "Poliomyelitis," Dr. William C. 

 Hassler, health officer of San Francisco. 



February 23: "The Importance of Proper 

 Habits of Carriage as a Basis of Health. ' ' Illus- 

 trated. Dr. Harry D. Langneoker, clinical in- 

 structor in orthopedic surgery, Stanford Medical 

 School. 



March 9: "The Problem of Eace and Eace 

 Prejudice," Professor Arthur W. Meyer, pro- 

 fessor of anatomy, Stanford Medical School. 



March 23: "Prevention of Blindness." Illus- 

 trated. Dr. Hans Barkan, clinical instructor in 

 ophthalmology, Stanford Medical School. 



We learn from Nature that a meeting was 

 held on ISTovember 9 in the University of Shef- 

 field to discuss the formation of a Society of 

 Glass Technology. The widespread interest in 

 the scheme was demonstrated by the presence 

 of representatives of cities as far apart as 

 London, Edinburgh and Cardiff, whilst every 

 glass-manufacturing district was well repre- 

 sented. Mr. W. F. J. Wood, of Messrs. Wood 

 Bros., Ltd., Barnsley, was elected to the chair, 

 and the meeting opened with a cordial wel- 

 come from the vice-chancellor of the univer- 

 sity, Dr. H. A. L. Fisher, who remarked that 

 Sheffield had cause for legitimate pride in the 

 knowledge that its university had been pro- 

 posed as the headquarters of a society repre- 

 senting such an important industry. He em- 

 phasized the fact that this industry, among 

 others, had suffered in the past owing to its 

 detachment, wholly or partially, from its scien- 

 tific aspects. The formation of the department 

 of glass technology in the university was serv- 

 ing to remedy this state of affairs, and the in- 

 auguration of this society was a distinct step 

 in the same direction. Dr. W. E. S. Turner 

 outlined the steps that had led up to the forma- 

 tion of the society, and spoke of the remark- 

 able response from those interested in glass. 

 Expressions of approval and promises of sup- 

 port had been received from all over the coutn- 

 try. Dr. Turner pointed out that there was no 



