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June 2, Nevrton Center — Contemporaneoxis bed; 

 overturned fold; thrust faults, joints. 



June 9, 10, Mts. Tom and Holyoke, Conneetieut 

 VaUey — Differential erosion; trap and sand- 

 stone; reptOe footprLats; volcanic bombs, etc. 



June 17, Atlantic — Stratification folds, cleavage; 

 puddingstone, sandstone, shales, tillite. 



June 24, ISfantasket — Interbedded tuffs and mel- 

 aphyr; intersection dykes, baked slates. 



THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL 

 SCHOOL AND NATIONAL SERVICE 



The faculty of the University of ilicMgan 

 Medical School on April 2, 1917, passed the 

 following resolutions: 



1. It is the opinion of the faculty of the 

 University of Michigan Medical School that 

 in meeting the demands for medical officers in 

 the national service, the military authorities 

 should give first preference for enlistment to 

 the members of the medical classes of the past 

 two years, viz. : 1915 and 1916. 



Note. — These young men have recently finished 

 their medical courses and having taken in part or 

 altogether their hospital traioing, should have the 

 latest and best information in scientific mediciae, 

 and not having as yet established themselves in 

 practise, are best fitted to be selected for military 

 service. 



2. In view of the probably urgent demands 

 for trained medical men, the faculty of the 

 University of Michigan Medical School de- 

 sires to place itseK on record as being ready 

 and wUling to make its courses of instruction 

 continuous through the summers of 1917 and 

 1918. This proposition will be submitted to 

 the various state boards of licensure for their 

 approval 



Note. — If this provision goes into effect, a week 

 after the close of the present session, the session of 

 1917-18 will begin. Those who are now juniors 

 will become seniors and may be graduated in Jan- 

 uary, 1918. 



Note. — In taking this step, not only the military 

 demands upon the medical profession, but civil de- 

 mands as well are taken into consideration. 



3. Taking into consideration the future 

 needs of the country for trained medical men, 

 it is the opinion of the faculty of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan Medical School that it is 



advisable for the undergraduate medical stu- 

 dents to complete their course of instruction 

 and not to enlist. 



4. The faculty of the University of Michi- 

 gan Medical School recommends that not less 

 than two hours per week be set aside for the 

 military drill of undergraduate students, and 

 that in addition to the ordinary infantry drUl, 

 we recommend training along the lines devel- 

 oped by the Clinical Society of Albany, and 

 known as the " Albany Plan." 



Note. — The medical officer should first of all be 

 a soldier. This is necessary in order to make him 

 most efficient as a medical officer. 



5. That copies of these resolutions be fur- 

 nished for suggestions of approval or disap- 

 proval to the following bodies: 



(1) The surgeons general of the army and 

 navy. 



(2) The iNTational Medical Committee on 

 Preparedness. 



(3) The JSTational Eesearch Council. 



(4) The faculties of other medical schools. 



6. That a list of the graduates of the classes 

 of 1915 and 1916, with their standing while 

 in the school and their present addresses, be 

 sent immediately to the surgeons general of 

 the army and navy. 



BRITISH GOVERNMENT GRANTS FOR SCIEN- 

 TIFIC RESEARCH 



When the establishment of a separate de- 

 partment of scientific and industrial research 

 was announced in December last, Lord Crewe 

 stated that the Chancellor of the Exchequer 

 was prepared to advise the government to de- 

 vote a sufficient sum to cover operations during 

 the next five years on a scale which would pro- 

 vide four, or perhaps five, times as much for 

 cooperative industrial research as had been 

 spent for the whole purposes of research 

 hitherto. "We learn from Nature that the civil 

 service estimates just issued include the sum 

 of £1,038,050 to the department of scientific 

 and industrial research, being a net increase of 

 £998,050 upon last year's amount. Grants for 

 investigations carried out by learned and 

 scientific societies, etc., are estimated at £24,- 

 000, and grants to students and other persons 



