May 7, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



679 



and bacteriologists, have reached Saloniea, 

 Greece, and will join Dr. Strong at Nish 

 shortly. 



A MAJORITY of the members of the board of 

 regents of the University of Minnesota, sitting 

 as the executive committee of the board, has 

 voted unanimously to adopt the following 

 statement of purpose : 



Although the "board of regents has not as yet 

 officially considered a proposed affiliation with the 

 Mayo foundation, in order to make clear the policy 

 ef the board, be it voted: 



"First, that in any event the regents do not 

 enter into any permanent arrangement within four 

 years; 



' ' Second, that the board enter into no perma- 

 nent affiliation which does not give the regents com- 

 plete control, within the specific purposes of the 

 foundation, of the endowment funds administra- 

 tion, and teaching." 



By a vote of 36 to 31 the state senate has 

 passed a bill as follows : The board of regents 

 of the University of Minnesota shall not affili- 

 ate or unite with any persons, firm or corpora- 

 tion under any agreement, arrangement or 

 understanding which will preclude the board 

 from exercise of any of its functions in the 

 educational management and control of the 

 university or any of its colleges, schools or 

 departments. But this act shall not be so con- 

 strued as to disable the said board from em- 

 ploying or authorizing the emplo3Tnent of in- 

 structors, lecturers or teachers who shall de- 

 vote a part only of their time or service to the 

 educational work of any department of the 

 university. 



A CONFERENCE of the Massachusetts Asso- 

 ciation of Boards of Health and the State De- 

 partment of Health and voluntary organiza- 

 tions interesting themselves in matters of pub- 

 lic hygiene was held in Boston on April 29. 

 The speakers at the forenoon conference were 

 Governor Walsh, Commissioner Allan J. Mc- 

 Laughlin, Dr. Charles W. Eliot, Professor 

 Irving Fisher, Miss Ella P. Crandall, execu- 

 tive secretary of the national organization of 

 Public Health !Nursing, and Professor William 

 T. Sedgwick, president of the American Public 

 Health Association. This was followed by a 

 business session over which Professor M. J. 

 Eosenau, of Harvard University, presided. 



The speakers of the afternoon, and their sub- 

 jects, were: "The Control of Communicable 

 Diseases," Dr. Eugene E. KeUey, State De- 

 partment of Health; "The Eelationship Be- 

 tween the State and Local Boards of Health," 

 Dr. Lyman A. Jones, district health officer, 

 Berkshire district; "The Health of the 

 Farmer," Dr. John S. Hitchcock, district 

 health officer, Connecticut Valley District; 

 "The Vacation Health Problem," Dr. Adam 

 S. MacKnight, district health officer, south- 

 eastern district ; " The Continuing Problem of 

 Vaccination," Dr. Samuel H. Durgin, former 

 chairman of the Boston Board of Health; 

 "The Control of Cancer," Dr. Edward Eey- 

 nolds, vice-president American Society for the 

 Control of Cancer ; " Some Problems of the 

 Health Officer of a Small City," Dr. Francis 

 G. Curtis, health officer, Newton; "Infant 

 Mortality from the Standpoint of the State," 

 Dr. William Hall Coon, district health officer, 

 northeastern district. 



The Entomological Society of France, in 

 January, took a ballot by mail among its ac- 

 tive membership on the question of expelling 

 all German members. The result of the ballot, 

 just announced, was as follows: 



Total number of ballots cast 270 



For the immediate expulsion of all German 



members 126 



For their expulsion after investigation 103 



Statu quo until end of hostilities 37 



Provisional expulsion 1 



Blank ballots 8 



Inasmuch as there was no majority in the 

 whole number of ballots cast in favor of im- 

 mediate expulsion en hloc, the question was 

 referred back to the council to consider the 

 spirit and the letter of the vote and the con- 

 ditions under which the German members 

 should be expelled. 



The United States Geological Survey opened 

 on May 1 a district office at Boston, Mass., 

 from which investigations of the water re- 

 sources of the New England states wiU be car- 

 ried on. For several years the Geological 

 Survey has made measurements of the flow of 

 streams in New England, the work being car- 

 ried on from the district office at Albany, N. 

 Y. The establishment of a district office at 



