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8. Waging a persistent campaign" against frau- 

 dulent patent medicines and securing the adoption 

 of an ordinance providing that the names of the 

 ingredients be printed on the label of all nostrums 

 sold in this city. 



9. Providing for the regular annual physical ex- 

 amination of all employees of the department of 

 health. 



10. Eeorganizing the bureau of food and drugs 

 and placing at its head a recognized authority in 

 this field, chosen as the result of an open competi- 

 tive examination. 



11. Inaugurating a campaign of education 

 against the use of alcohol as a beverage. 



12. Insisting on the recognition, as a menace to 

 health, of overcrowding in the street ears, and 

 compelling the street railway companies to pro- 

 vide the service needed to the limit of their ca- 

 pacity. 



The program for the year of the Society of 

 the Sigma Si, of Northwestern University, is 

 as f ollovsrs : 



October 28. "Chemical Control of Body Func- 

 tions": Professor E. G. Hoskins. 



November 17. "Scientific Problems of Flight 

 and the best Possible Ways of Attacking Them": 

 Director John P. Hayford. 



December 9. "Galileo": Professor Henry 

 Crew. 



January 12. "Bill's School and Mine": Pro- 

 fessor W. S. Franklin. Initiation of new members. 



February 17. "Five Outstanding Events of 

 Biological Progress": Professor W. A. Locy. 



March 9. "Conduction of Pain and Tempera- 

 ture ' ' : Professor S. W. Eansom. 



April 13. "Microbie Warfare in the Intestinal 

 Tract": Professor A. I. Kendall. Dinner and an- 

 nual meeting; election of new members. 



May IS. Last meeting of year, to be addressed 

 by a speaker from another university. Initiation 

 of new members. 



Under the auspices of the Eush Society and 

 other medical organizations of Philadelphia 

 lectures on medical and allied subjects have 

 been arranged as follows : 



The Samuel D. Gross Lecture of the Patholog- 

 ical Society of Philadelphia, October 14, by Dr. 

 Eugene L. Fiske : ' ' The Increasing Mortality from 

 Diseases of the Heart, Blood Vessels and Kid- 

 neys. ' ' 



The Twelfth Eush Society Lecture, November 

 29, Professor Daniel J. McCarthy, University of 



Pennsylvania Medical School: "Medical and So- 

 cial Problems. Incident to War." 



The Matter Lecture, December 17, Professor 

 Eudolf Matas, Tulane College of Medicine: "The 

 Fundamental Principles that Underlie the Surgical 

 Treatment of Aneurysm. ' ' 



The Thirteenth Eush Society Lecture, January 

 21, Dr. F. M. Allen, Eockefeller Institute of Med- 

 ical Eesearch : ' ' Investigative and Scientific Phases 

 of the Diabetic Question with Their Probable Eo- 

 lations to Practical Problems of Clinical Medi- 

 cine. ' ' 



The Frederick A. Packard Lecture of the Phila- 

 delphia Pediatric Society, February 8, Professor 

 Charles M. Campbell, Johns Hopkins Medical 

 School: "The Neurotic Child; Some Familiar 

 Symptoms and Their Problems." 



The Fourteenth Eush Society Lecture, March 7, 

 Professor Richard P. Strong, Harvard Medical 

 School: "An Investigation of Typhus Fever in 

 Serbia." (This lecture is also the annual address 

 before the Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary Medical 

 Society.) 



The Fifteenth Eush Society Lecture, April 6, 

 Professor John M. T. Finney, Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity: "What Constitutes a Surgeon." (This 

 lecture is also the annual address before the Under- 

 graduate Medical Society of the University of 

 Pennsylvania.) 



Annual Address of the Pathological Society of 

 Philadelphia, April 27, Professor William H. 

 Park, University and Bellevue Hospital Medical 

 College. (Title to be announced later.) 



VNIFEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Approximately $1,000,000 is to go to Yale 

 University under the will of Justus S. Hotch- 

 kiss, of Few Haven. The trust fund thus es- 

 tablished is to be shared equally among the 

 academic, law and theological departments. 



The plans for the merger of the Medico- 

 Chirurgical College and the Medical School 

 of the University of Pennsylvania were agreed 

 upon finally on ITovember 15, following a con- 

 ference of representatives of the two institti- 

 tions. The Polyclinic Hospital of Philadel- 

 phia, which maintains a post-graduate med- 

 ical course for physicians, may also merge 

 with the University of Pennsylvania. 



In Washington University (St. Louis), as 

 announced in Science last week. Dr. Leo 



