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Dr. J. S. Billings, librarian, Pub. Libraries, 

 New York City. 



Professor K. H. Chittenden, director, Sheiif. Sci- 

 entific Sch., Yale University. 



Pres. Chas. W. Eliot, pres.. Harvard University. 



Pres. Arthur T. Hadley, pres., Yale University. 



Pres. G. Stanley Hall, pres., Clark University. 



Miss Hazard, pres., Wellesley College. 



Booker T. Washington, supt., Tuskegee Inst. 

 Clergymen and Lawyers. 



Rev. Lyman Abbott, ed. The Outlook. 



Rev. W. G. Eliot, Portland, Oregon. 



Rev. C. H. Fowler, M. E. Bishop, N. Y. City. 



Rev. Edw. Everett Hale, Chaplain, U. S. Senate. 



Rt. Rev. John Ireland, Archbishop of St. Paul. 



Professor James B. Ames, Dean Harvard Law 

 School. 



Hon. Ben. B. Lindsey, Juvenile Court, Denver, 

 Col. 



Hon. John D. Long, Ex-Sec. of Navy; Ex-Gov. 

 of Mass. 



Hon. Wm. K. Townsend, Judge U. S. Circuit 

 Court of Appeals. 

 Additional Memhers. 



Professor Liberty H. Bailey, prof, of agricul- 

 ture, Cornell University. 



Luther Burbank, horticulturist, Santa Rosa. 



Andrew Caniegie, philanthropist. 



James H. Causey, health and political reform, 

 Denver, Col. 



Miss Grace H. Dodge, Working Girls' Clubs, 

 New York City. 



Thos. A. Edison, inventor. 



Horace Fletcher, writer on health. 



Professor Harry A. Garfield, prof, of politics, 

 Princeton. 



Professor Franklin H. Giddings, prof, sociology, 

 Columbia L'niversity. 



Professor C. R. Henderson, prof, of sociology. 

 University of Chicago. 



Mrs. Mary F. Henderson, writer on health. 



John Mitchell, pres.. United Mine Workers. 



Melville E. Stone, gen. manager, Assoc. Press. 



Talcott Williams, editor. 



Michael Vincent O'Shea, prof, of education, 

 Univ. of Wise, Madison, Wise. 



Certainly if eminence and determination 

 count for much, the committee as above enu- 

 merated ought to succeed. The committee 

 consists of persons of large influence, inclu- 

 ding-, as it does, such men as President Eliot, 

 of Harvard University, Professor Welch, 

 president of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, Mr. Andrew Car- 



negie, Mr. Thos. Edison, Luther Burbank, 

 Gen. Leonard Wood, Dr. L. Emmett Holt, Dr. 

 Trudeau, Felix Adler, Jane Addams, Lyman 

 Abbott, Archbishop Ireland, etc. The few 

 who have been compelled to decline member- 

 ship on the committee have in almost every 

 case expressed their approval of its objects. 

 Thus ex-President Grover Cleveland wrote : " I 

 hope I need not say to you that I am in com- 

 plete sympathy with the aims and purposes 

 of this organization." In somewhat the same 

 manner Dr. Andrew D. White, former presi- 

 dent of Cornell University and Ambassador 

 to Germany and Russia wrote: "The paper 

 enclosed from Dr. Norton seems to me 

 masterly and thoroughly well adapted to its 

 admirable purpose. I need hardly say that I 

 am in entire sympathy with your movement." 

 Professor Fisher is now engaged in selecting 

 a sub-executive committee which will draft a 

 bill for congress and plan the future cam- 

 paign. The committee of one hundred is not 

 as yet pledged to support any particular form 

 of organization for the proposed department 

 or bureau of health, and its first duty will be 

 to decide whether it is advisable to attempt to 

 secure a department with a cabinet officer at 

 its head or a bureau under one of the existing 

 departments. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Professor Dimitri Ivano\itch Mendeleep, 

 the eminent chemist, director of the Russian 

 Bureau of Weights and Measures, died at St. 

 Petersbvirg on February 2, at the age of 

 seventy-three years. 



Sir Michael Foster, professor of physiology 

 at Cambridge from 1883 to 1903, secretary of 

 the Royal Society from 1881 to 1903, president 

 of the British Association in 1899, and mem- 

 ber of parliament for London University, died 

 on January 29, at the age of seventy-one 

 years. 



The French government has made Professor 

 Simon ISTewcomb, U. S. A. (retired), com- 

 mander of the Legion of Honor. 



A BILL has been reported in the senate pro- 

 moting to be major-surgeon in the army Dr. 

 James Carroll, curator of the Army Medical 

 Museum and professor of pathology in George 



