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SCIENCE. 



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Sec. 4. That the Secretaries of the Depart- 

 ments aforesaid shall make and publish from time 

 to time imiform rules and regulations for the 

 piirpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act. 



THE REPORT OF COMMITTEE O'N THE 

 WALTER REED MONUMENTS 



The committee on the Walter Reed me- 

 morial fund desire to submit, as is required, 

 their report, and, as their work is practically 

 finished, would ask to be discharged. 



The amount subscribed to the fund up to 

 May 1, 1906, as reported to the committee by 

 General Calvin DeWitt, secretary of the 

 Walter Heed Memorial Association, is $20,- 

 943.64. The amount paid in is $19,730.64, 

 leaving subscribed, but not yet paid, $1,213. 



It was the desire of the committee and also 

 of the Walter Eeed Memorial Association that 

 the sum of $25,000 should be raised. The 

 committee regret very much indeed that Amer- 

 ican cities and towns which have been dev- 

 astated by yellow fever have contributed much 

 less than $1,000 all told, and nothing in the 

 way of public, municipal or state subscrip- 

 tions. They still further, and especially re- 

 gret that the sum total from Cuba has been 

 only $25. It seems to the committee that the 

 country from which yellow fever was eradi- 

 cated after having been continually present for 

 140 years, and which has had pointed out to it 

 clearly the way in which future epidemics can 

 be absolutely avoided, should certainly have 

 made some substantial acknowledgment of the 

 services of a surgeon who not only made a 

 contribution of enormous value from the sani- 

 tary point of view, but who has established its 

 future commercial prosperity. 



The committee can not tell precisely the 

 amount subscribed by the medical profession, 

 but it is a very large proportion of the nearly 

 $20,000 collected to date. It gives us pleasure 

 to call attention to the fact that while few 

 business men have recognized the enormous 

 money value of Dr. Eeed's services, to say 

 nothing of the saving of human lives, his own 

 profession has given such substantial recogni- 

 tion of the worth of his services in preventing 



" Presented at the Boston meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Medical Association. 



a disease which has committed such dreadful 

 havoc in the past, but will never do so again. 



Joseph D. Bryant, 



A. C. Cabot, 



T. S. CULLEN, 



Victor C. Vaughan, 



Robert F. Weir, 



W. W. Keen, Chairman. 



THE 8HALER MEMORIAL FUND. 



The following circular has been sent by a 

 committee of alumni of Harvard University 

 to the graduates of the College and the Scien- 

 tific School: 



Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, S.D., LL.D., pro- 

 fessor of geology and dean of the Lawrence Scien- 

 tific School, died in Cambridge, April 10, 1906, 

 after more than forty years of faithful work at 

 Harvard. 



Professor Shaler's femarkable personality made 

 a profound impression on the college and the 

 community. The names of over 6,000 students 

 have been enrolled in his classes. In recognition 

 of his great services to the university, the execu- 

 tive committee of the Alumni Association has 

 appointed the committee named belovr to secure 

 a Shaler memorial fund, the form of the me- 

 morial and the disposition of the principal and 

 income of the fund to be determined by the com- 

 mittee. 



It is believed that many Harvard men, to 

 whom the members of the committee are unable to 

 write personally, will wish to subscribe to this 

 memorial. This circular is therefore sent to all 

 graduates of the college and the scientific school. 

 Those who desire to contribute to the fund are 

 requested to send their subscriptions, large or 

 small (in the form of checks made payable to the 

 Treasurer of Harvard University ) , to the chair- 

 man as soon as possible, in order that a good 

 report of progress, stating the number of sub- 

 scriptions as well as the total amount subscribed, 

 can be made on commencement day, June 27. 



THE ITHACA MEETING. 

 The meeting of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science and the affili- 

 ated societies at Cornell University next week 

 is an event of importance in the history of 

 scientific organization and the advancement 

 and diffusion of science in this country. The 



