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operation of the Phipps Institute, it was rec- 

 ommended that its future policy embrace 

 three fields of activity, and be reported by 

 three correspondent departments — the labor- 

 atory, clinical and sociological departments. 

 Work of the laboratory will be devoted prin- 

 cipally to the discovery or, formulation of 

 some specific remedy for the treatment of 

 tuberculosis. The program outlined for the 

 clinical and sociological departments is di- 

 vided into four parts: (1) The clinical and 

 social work in allotted districts; (2) social 

 research; (3) general educational work; (4) 

 the stimulating of the public to action. 



Congressman Mann has introduced two 

 health bills in the House of Representatives. 

 One is a bill to enlarge the Public Health and 

 Marine Hospital Service, changing the name 

 to " The Public Health Service," while con- 

 tinuing it under the Department of the 

 Treasury. The bill creates a division of 

 water supply, to investigate the pollution of 

 streams, and confers authority to investigate 

 tuberculosis, typhoid fever and other diseases. 

 The other is a bill embodying the original 

 suggestions of the Committee of One Hun- 

 dred before Senator Owen's plan for a de- 

 partment was presented. This makes, at 

 least, sis important public health bills now 

 before congress, the other four being the 

 Owen bill (S 6049) in the senate, the same 

 bill in the house introduced independently by 

 Congressmen Creager and Hanna, and a 

 modification of the Owen bill introduced by 

 Congressman Simmons. 



At the decennial convention for the Revi- 

 sion of the Pharmacopoeia, held in Washing- 

 ton, D. C, on May 10, Dr. H. W. Wiley was 

 elected president and Dr. Joseph P. Reming- 

 ton was made chairman of the revision com- 

 mittee of fifty which will be divided into fif- 

 teen sections to which are assigned specific 

 subjects. The nest meeting of the committee 

 will be in 1920, but the work of revision is 

 already under way and will be pushed as 

 rapidly as possible. The delegates to this 

 convention are accredited representatives of 

 incorporated medical and pharmaceutical as- 



sociations and colleges and of such other sci- 

 entific societies and federal officials as are 

 specifically named in the constitution, for 

 example, the American Chemical Society and 

 the surgeon-generals of the Army, the Navy 

 and the U. S. Marine-Hospital Service. By 

 amendment to the constitution at the last 

 meeting the following additions were made 

 to the list of officials and organizations au- 

 thorized to appoint delegates : the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce and 

 Labor, the Association of Official Agricultural 

 Chemists, the Association of State and Na- 

 tional Pood and Dairy Departments, the 

 Wholesale Druggists Association and the Na- 

 tional Dental Association. 



The School of American Archeology will 

 continue during the year 1910 the work of 

 exploration and excavation of ancient ruins 

 with collateral ethnological and historical 

 work in New Mexico, Utah, Arizona and 

 Central America. The season for work in the 

 southwestern part of the United States is 

 from June 1 to November 1; in Central 

 America it is from December 1 to May 1. 

 Properly qualified persons will be admitted 

 to the field expeditions of the school or to 

 undertake research work under its direction 

 in Santa Fe or elsewhere, on satisfying the 

 staff of their ability for original investigation. 

 Those who desire to undertake such work 

 should write the director, Mr. Edgar L. Hew- 

 ett, stating his or her wishes, giving such 

 information as to qualification as would nat- 

 urally be needed and stating when and for 

 what length of time they desire to take up 

 the work. 



During the week of May 30-June 4 a party 

 of students from the college of agriculture 

 of the University of Wisconsin, under the 

 direction of several members of the faculty, 

 will inspect some of the fine farms, creamer- 

 ies and farm product manufactories of the 

 southeastern part of the state. This form of 

 instruction has been applied to students of 

 animal husbandry in previous years, but has 

 never before been given to students of agri- 

 culture in general. 



