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him for accumulation demand the utmost 

 concentration of effort. "What will be the 

 result of this intense strain, and the effects 

 of such a time limit on what the average 

 man hopes to accomplish, can only be as- 

 certained by future observation. But the 

 situation is inevitable, and the young man 

 is wise who heeds for his future the counsel 

 and experience of his elders. 



It would seem that these various influ- 

 ences have an important bearing on the 

 present and future conditions of practical 

 education in determining what the student 

 may expect who seeks a suitable prepara- 

 tion for the profession that will absorb his 

 best energies and that shall constitute his 

 life-work. It is of less consequence where 

 he is educated, provided he attains the 

 mental poise and attitude that enable him 

 to grasp fundamental truths and to apply 

 them correctly in the accomplishment of 

 great undertakings. 



C. F. Mabeey 



Case School of Appued Science 



SECTION K—PHYSIOLOOY AND EXPERI- 

 MENTAL MEDICINE 



SUMMARY OF THE PROCEEDINOS 



There were three meetings of the section 

 during convocation week. 



The first session was convened on Thurs- 

 day, December 27, at 2:15 p.m., at the 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons, in the 

 presence of an unusually large audience. 

 At this meeting the officers for the year 

 1907-8 were elected ; the retiring chairman. 

 Professor William T. Sedgwick, delivered 

 the annual address; and a symposium was 

 held on the subject of 'Protozoa as Factors 

 in Disease.' 



The second session was held on Friday, 

 December 28, at 10 a.m., at the Eoekefeller 

 Institute for Medical Eesearch, in affilia- 

 tion with the Society of American Bacteri- 

 ologists. Twelve papers were presented. 



The third session was held on Saturday, 



December 29, at 10 a.m., at the Rockefeller 

 Institute for Medical Research, in affiliation 

 with the American Physiological Society. 

 Sixteen communications were offered. 



EXECUTIVE PROCEEDINGS 



The following officers were elected for 

 1907-8 : 



vice-president and chairman of the Section — 

 Ludvig Hektoen. 



Secretary — ^William J. Gies. 



Sectional committee — Simon Flexner, vice-presi- 

 dent, 1906-07; Ludvig Hektoen, vice-president, 

 1907-08; William J. Gies, secretary, 1905-'08; 

 Charles S. Minot (one year) ; J. McK. Cattell 

 (two years) ; Frederick G. Novy (three years) ; 

 Graham Lusk (four years) ; Jacques Loeb (five 

 years) . 



Member of the Council — S. J. Meltzer. 



Member of the General Committee — ^Edward K. 

 Dunham. 



SCIENTIFIC PROCEEDINGS 



Program of the First Session, 

 December 27, 1906 

 Vice-presidential address— 'The Expan- 

 sion of Physiology': William T. Sedgwick. 

 (Published in Science, this volume, page 

 332.) 



Symposium on Protozoa as Factors in Dis- 

 ease: 



Introductory remarks by the chairman: 

 Simon Flexner. 



'The Protozoa from the Standpoint of 

 the General Naturalist': Edmund B. Wil- 

 son. 



'Some General Principles in connection 

 with Protozoa as Factors in Disease': C. 

 W. Stiles. 



'The Protozoan Species': Gary N. Cal- 

 kins. 



'The Morphological Diagnosis of Patho- 

 genic Protozoa': James Ewing. 



'Immunity against Trypanosomes': F. 

 G. Novy. 



General discussion by William H. Welch, 

 Henry B. Ward and James Carroll. 



