May 14, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



719 



In. the evening a banquet was held at the 

 St. Louis Club at which Mr. Eobert S. Brook- 

 ings, president of the corporation of Washing- 

 ton University presided. Responses to toasts 

 were made by President Hill, of the University 

 of Missouri, former Governor David R. Fran- 

 cis, Dr. Abraham Jaeobi and Dr. W. H. 

 Howell. 



Friday the 30th was knovsra as Alumni Day 

 and in the morning talks were given by Dr. 

 W. T. Porter in behalf of the alumni of the 

 St. Louis Medical College, and Dr. Eobert 

 Terry in behalf of the alumni of the Missouri 

 Medical College. These two institutions were 

 united to form the Washington University 

 School in 1899. Dr. Fred T. Murphy then 

 spoke to the alumni in behalf of the medical 

 school faculty. 



In the afternoon Dr. Geo. Dock spoke on 

 the relation of the academic hospital to the 

 community. He was followed by Surgeon 

 General W. C. Gorgas who spoke on the eradi- 

 cation of yellow fever and malaria in Havana 

 and in the Canal Zone, and the possibilities 

 that preventive medicine holds for the future. 



In the evening academic exercises were held 

 in the university chapel on the university 

 campus followed by a reception in the build- 

 ing of the school of fine arts. The following 

 honorary degrees were given at the exercises: 

 Doctor of Science: Dr. W. T. Porter; Dr. 0. E. 



Folin, and Dr. Theodore Janeway. 

 Doctor of Laws: Professor B. H. Chittenden, Dr. 



W. C. Gorgas, President H. E. HUl, President 



A. L. Lowell, President George E. Vincent, Dr. 



F. P. Mall, Dr. Abraham Jaeobi, Dr. Simon 



Plexner, Dr. W. H. Welch, Dr. 8. J. Meltzer, 



Professor W. H. Howell, Dr. Eudolph Matas. 

 Doctor of Laws {in absentia) : Professor Nathaniel 



Wille, University of Chiistiania. 



Opportunity was provided in the program 

 for the inspection of the laboratories of the 

 medical school and the affiliated Barnes and 

 St. Louis Children's Hospitals. The labora- 

 tories were opened in Septeraber and consist of 

 two four-story and basement buildings 209 X 

 56 feet. In the north building are located the 

 administrative offices, library, assembly hall, 

 laboratories of preventive medicine and sur- 

 gery and the department of anatomy. The 



south building is occupied by biological chem- 

 istry, physiology and pharmacology. A third 

 building five stories in height and 232 X 60 

 feet which completes the group is on the hos- 

 pital lot directly across the street from the 

 other laboratory buildings. The basement and 

 first floors are occupied by the out-patient dis- 

 pensaries of the hospitals. On the second floor 

 is located the clinical laboratory of the de- 

 partment of medicine, while the department 

 of pathology occupies the third and fourth 

 floors. Animal quarters and runways are pro- 

 vided on the roofs of all the buildings. The 

 three laboratory buildings were erected at a 

 cost of $1,200,000 which brings the outlay for 

 new buildings for the medical school, includ- 

 ing the hospitals, to over $3,000,000. 



One of the interesting features of dedica- 

 tion week was the presentation to the Wash- 

 ington University Medical School of a number 

 of manuscripts and papers of William Beau- 

 mont by his granddaughter Miss Irwin. In- 

 cluded among these are the original manu- 

 scripts and notes of Beaumont's experiments 

 upon Alexis St. Martin and the agreement 

 entered into by St. Martin to accompany Beau- 

 mont, for a period of two years for the purpose 

 of experimentation. Dr. F. J. Lutz spoke of 

 Beaumont as a practitioner and Dr. Joseph. 

 Erlanger on Beaumont as an investigator. A 

 room has been set aside in the library of the 

 medical school to house the manuscripts, 

 known as the Beaumont room. 



On April 28 Dr. Simon Flexner delivered a 

 popular lecture before the Washington Uni- 

 versity Association on "The Control of In- 

 fective Diseases." 



In connection with dedication week of the 

 medical school of Washington University a 

 series of four lectures on " Protein Metabol- 

 ism " was delivered by Dr. Otto K. Folin. 

 The subjects were as follows : 



"The Utilization of Food Protein." 



" Tissue Metabolism with Special Reference 

 to Creatinin." 



" Protein Metabolism with Special Reference 

 to Uric Acid." 



" The Occurrence and Significance of Phen- 

 ols and Phenol Derivatives in the Urine." 



