October 27, 1905.] 



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disappointment to the people of New Orleans 

 had the association expressed any strong 

 doubt of the fulfillment of its promise to meet 

 in that city. 



Dr. J. H. White, in charge of the Public 

 Health and Marine Hospital Service in New 

 Orleans, states that it would be perfectly safe 

 for the association to meet in New Orleans 

 long prior to December 29. 



The secretary of the New Orleans board of 

 trade writes that the hospitality of the city 

 will not in the least suffer from the occurrence 

 of yellow fever during the summer, which has 

 not been a strain on the financial resources of 

 the community, since there was only a slight 

 interruption in the free movement of business. 

 He further makes the significant remark, 

 under date of September 19 : 



The advancement of science has taught our 

 citizens a lesson how to guard against a recur- 

 rence of yellow fever and there is to-day less 

 danger from that disease than from typhoid fever 

 which at this time prevails in many eastern cities 

 to an alarming extent. 



He further says : 



The association could not meet in a city more 

 hospitable, nor in a climate more salubrious and 

 environments more pleasing. * * * The enter- 

 tainments to be given will not be lacking in that 

 enthusiasm and warmth for which our city is 

 famous all over the United States. * * * The 

 association will find that the outbreak of yellow 

 fever has neither made us too poor, nor too sor- 

 rowful, to give a rousing reception to tlie Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Science. 



A letter received September 25, from a 

 prominent state scientific official, residing in 

 Shreveport, who has recently gone to the state 

 of Louisiana and is, therefore, not influenced 

 by local pride, writes to the permanent secre- 

 tary as a member of the association, express- 

 ing the opinion that not the slightest risk will 



be incurred by any member of the association 

 and that the meeting could in fact be held in 

 New Orleans at the date of writing (Sep- 

 tember 25) and the visitors would be in no 

 more danger of contracting yellow fever than 

 they would be in contracting smallpox in 

 Chicago or typhoid fever in Washington or 

 Philadelphia. 



On the basis of these opinions and on the 

 strength of his own opinion (and he has for 

 some years been making a special study of the 

 yellow fever mosquito) and by the advice of 

 a majority of the committee on policy, the 

 permanent secretary is now making arrange- 

 ments for the meeting and will as soon as 

 possible issue the preliminary announcement. 

 The local arrangements have been delayed, 

 but President Craighead, of Tulane Univer- 

 sity, has now returned to New Orleans and 

 the committees will soon be appointed, so that 

 the necessary details may be completed. An 

 effort is being made to secure a one-fare rate 

 for the round trip and the result of these 

 negotiations as well as other facts will be 

 published as soon as possible. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 The exercises in connection with the instal- 

 lation of Dr. Edmund J. James, as president 

 of the University of Illinois, on Tuesday, 

 Wednesday and Thursday of last week, took 

 place in accordance with the program already 

 printed here, in the presence of a large as- 

 semblage of delegates from foreign and Amer- 

 ican universities. We hope to print in a 

 subsequent issue the inaugural address of 

 President James. Among the honorary de- 

 grees conferred were the following: Doctor of 

 laws. Professor Thomas P. Holgate, acting- 

 president of Northwestern University, and 

 John B. Murphy, M.D., Chicago; doctor of 

 science. Professor T. C. Chamberlin, of the 

 University of Chicago; doctor of engineering. 

 Octave Chanute, Chicago, and F. E. Turn- 

 eaure. University of Wisconsin; doctor of 



