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Corresponding Secretary, J. Henri Wagner, 

 and Financial Secretary and Treasurer, 

 E. S. Sclimidt. The following committee was 

 elected to prepare a constitution and by-laws: 

 Dr. Paul. Bartsch, chairman, Miss Mary C. 

 Breen, Mrs. G. H. Burris, W. S. Adams and 

 J. E. Benedict. 



An intensive study of the question of pneu- 

 monia will be made by a commission ap- 

 pointed on January 11, by Director Wilmer 

 Krusen, of the Department of Health and 

 Charities of Philadelphia. The recent epi- 

 demic of grip and pneumonia occasioned the 

 appointment of a commission. Director 

 Krusen appointed the members from those 

 eminent either for clinical work or for their 

 ability as laboratory research workers. The 

 city laboratories will be placed at their dis- 

 posal. Dr. David Riesman, professor of clin- 

 ical medicine in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania and the Philadelphia Polyclinic, will be 

 chairman. Other members are: Dr. Hobart 

 A. Hare, professor of therapeutics at Jeffer- 

 son Medical College; Dr. Judson Daland, 

 professor of clinical medicine in the Medico- 

 Chirurgical College; Dr. William Egbert 

 Eobertson, professor of the practise of medi- 

 cine, Temple University; Dr. Handle C. 

 Eosenberger, professor of hygiene and bac- 

 teriology in the Jefferson Medical College and 

 the Women's Medical College; Dr. Paul A. 

 Lewis, director of the Ayer Clinical Labora- 

 tory of the Pennsylvania Hospital and director 

 of the pathological department of the Henry 

 Phipps Institute, and Dr. John A. Kolmer, 

 professor of pathology, Philadelphia Poly- 

 clinic; instructor of experimental pathology 

 at the University of Pennsylvania. 



The mental hygiene committee of the ISTew 

 York State Charities Aid Association an- 

 nounces that, in the interest of a state-wide 

 campaign of education for the prevention of 

 insanity, plans have been made for public lec- 

 tures. Specialists in mental diseases have 

 been appointed to deliver such lectures, in- 

 cluding Drs. Stewart Paton, Smith Ely Jel- 

 liffe, August Hoch, Thomas Henry Williams, 

 Menas S. Gregory, Charles S. Little, Thiells, 



William Mabon, James V. May and Herman 

 G. Matzinger. 



At the recent biennial convention of the 

 honor society of Phi Kappa Phi, the follow- 

 ing officers were elected: President General, 

 Edwin E. Sparks, State College, Pa.; Secre- 

 tary General, L. H. Pammel, Iowa State Col- 

 lege, A m es; Treasurer General, C. H. Gordon, 

 University of Tennessee, Knosville; Registrar 

 General, J. S. Stevens, University of Maine, 

 Orono; Provincial Secretaries: Eastern Dis- 

 trict, J. A. Eoord, Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College, Amherst; Southern District, G. 

 H. Boggs, Georgia School of Technology, At- 

 lanta; Northern District, E. IST. Wentworth, 

 Kansas Agricultural College, Manhattan; 

 Western District, L. W. Hartman, University 

 of Nevada, Reno. The constitution was re- 

 vised and other important business was tran- 

 sacted. 



Dr. Willis T. Lee, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, is giving a course of ten lectures at 

 the Johns Hopkins University on successive 

 Monday and Tuesday afternoons. His sub- 

 ject is " Mesozoic Physiography of the South- 

 ern Rocky Mountains." 



In the new Bowdoin Union, Bowdoin Col- 

 lege, not yet dedicated formally, the first 

 public lecture was given on January 17 by Pro- 

 fessor George H. Parker, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, who gave an illustrated address on " The 

 Seals of the Pribiloff Islands," under the aus- 

 pices of the Biological Club. 



Dr. K. George Falk, of the Harriman Re- 

 search Laboratory of the Roosevelt Hospital, 

 delivered a lecture on " The Electron Concep- 

 tion of Valence," before the Chemical Society 

 of the College of the City of New York on De- 

 cember 22. 



Dr. Charles H. T. Townsend gave an il- 

 lustrated lecture on verruga to the students of 

 the medical school of Howard University, 

 Washington, D. C, on January 15. 



A memorial of Eustachius was recently un- 

 veiled in the great quadrangle of the Univer- 

 sity of Rome in the presence of the prime 

 minister, the minister of public instruction, 

 the mayor of Rome, and the rector and mem- 



