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stated that the chancellor of the exchequer was 

 prepared to advise the government to devote a 

 sufficient sum to cover operations during the 

 nest five years on a scale which would provide 

 four, or perhaps five, times as much for cooper- 

 ative industrial research as had been spent for 

 the whole purposes of research hitherto. Ac- 

 cording to Nature the civil service estimates 

 just issued include the sum of £1,038,050 to the 

 Department of Scientific and Industrial Re- 

 search, 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 engaged in research 

 at £6,000. These grants will be distributed by 

 a committee of the Privy Council, on the 

 recommendation of the Advisory Council, to 

 promote the development of scientific and in- 

 dustrial research in the United Kingdom, and 

 will be subject to such conditions as the com- 

 mittee may think necessary. The £1,000,000 

 grant in aid of industrial research will be paid 

 to the account of the Imperial Trust for the 

 encouragement of scientific and industrial re- 

 search. The expenditure of the trust will be 

 audited by the comptroller and auditor-gen- 

 eral, but any balance remaining on the account 

 will not be surrendered at the close of the 

 financial year. Grants will be made by the 

 directions of the committee of the Privy Coun- 

 cil over an agreed period to approved trade 

 associations for research, to supplement the 

 funds of the associations, and payments in 

 respect of such grants will not be liable to 

 surrender by the grantees at the end of the 

 financial year. It is understood from Lord 

 Crewe's remarks on December 1 that for the 

 next five years or so about £200,000 a year 

 would be available for scientific and industrial 

 research, so that apparently the grant of 

 £1,000,000 is the sum which is to be drawn 

 upon for this purpose. The amount estimated 

 for salaries, wages and allowances in the new 

 department is £7,250, which includes £1,500 

 for the secretary and £850 for the assistant 

 secretary. Traveling and incidental expenses 

 are estimated to amount to £800. 



THE GENERAL MEDICAL BOARD OF THE 

 COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE 



A GENERAL medical board of the Council of 

 N'ational Defense was organized on April 17 

 at a meeting attended by leading physicians 

 from all parts of the country. The board is 

 to have general supervision of the mobiliza- 

 tion of the nation's medical resources during 

 the war. Dr. Franklin Martin, of Chicago, 

 will be chairman of the board, which will also 

 include the leading members of the executive 

 committee of the board, announced a short 

 time ago. The list follows : 



Dr. FrankUn Martin, chairman. 



Dr. P. F. Simpson, vice-chairman. 



Surgeon General William C. Gorgas, United States 

 Army. 



Surgeon General W illi am 0. Braisted, United States 

 Navy. 



Surgeon General Kupert Blue, United States Pub- 

 lie Health Service. 



Colonel Jefferson R. Kean, director of military re- 

 lief, American Eed Cross. 



Dr. William H. Welch, professor of pathology, 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



Dr. William J. Mayo, Eoehester, Minn. 



Dr. Edward Martin, professor of surgery, Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania. 



Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, dean of the medical school 

 of the University of Michigan. 



Dr. George H. Simmons, editor, Journal of Ameri- 

 can Medical Association, Chicago. 



Dr. Richard P. Strong, professor of tropical medi- 

 cine. Harvard University. 



Dr. Joseph M. Flint, professor of surgery, Tale 

 University. 



Dr. Stuart McGuire, professor of surgery. Univer- 

 sity of Virginia. 



Dr. John Young Brown, professor of surgery, Uni- 

 versity of St. Louis. 



Dr. Charles H. Mayo, Rochester, Minn. 



Dr. Thomas W. Huntington, professor of surgery, 

 University of California. 



Dr. Hubert A. Eoyster, secretary of Southern Surg- 

 ical Association. 



Dr. Charles H. Peck, professor of surgery, Colum- 

 bia University. 



Dr. Winford Smith, superintendent, Johns Hop- 

 kins Hospital. 



Dr. Frederic A. Besley, professor of surgery. 

 Northwestern University. 



Dr. George W. CrUe, professor of surgery. Western 

 Reserve University. 



