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Bureau by a Callendar sunshine receiver and 

 recorder. The temperature of Lake Mendota, 

 on whose shore is situated the station of the 

 Weather Bureau, is ascertained by daily series 

 of observations, taken in the deepest part of 

 the lake. In this vray are determined not only 

 the amount and rate of the gain and loss of 

 heat by the lake, but also the relation between 

 the heat absorbed by the lake and that fur- 

 nished to its surface by the sun. 



E. A. BiRGE 



Madison, N. J., 

 October 3. 



QV0TATI0N8 



SPECIAL TRAINING FOR HEALTH OFFICERS 



A LONG step forward in the special training 

 of health officers has just been taken in the 

 organization of the " school for health officers " 

 of Harvard University and the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology. 



By cooperation, especially arranged between 

 the two institutions, it now becomes possible 

 for properly qualified persons on payment of 

 an annual fee of $250 to obtain access to the 

 remarkable resources of the Harvard Medical 

 School and other departments of our oldest 

 university, as well as to the chemical, biolog- 

 ical, sanitary and engineering opportunities 

 offered by a great modern technical school. 

 How remarkable these opportunities offered 

 are can only be appreciated by an examination 

 of the announcement itself, copies of which 

 may be obtained on application to the director, 

 Professor M. J. Eosenau, of the Harvard 

 Medical School. 



No single curriculum is laid down which 

 all must follow, but from the many courses 

 offered members of the school will be expected 

 to choose such as their preparation warrants 

 or their needs indicate. No degree of any 

 kind is required for admission, and no degree 

 will be awarded for the completion of the 

 course but, instead, a certificate to be known 

 as the certificate of public health (O.P.H.) will 

 be given to all who complete satisfactory 

 courses and requirements. In order to obtain 

 the certificate in one year it will in general be 

 required that the candidate shall be either a 



graduate in medicine, or in biology and public 

 health, or be otherwise highly qualified. Fail- 

 ing these special qualifications, two or more 

 years will ordinarily be necessary in order to 

 obtain the certificate. 



No one will be admitted to the school who- 

 has not completed at least two years of ordi- 

 nary college work including chemistry, physics,, 

 biology and French and German, or who is- 

 not otherwise specially qualified. 



Persons already engaged in public healtb 

 work will be admitted under certain condi- 

 tions to special courses, and every facility will 

 be offered for obtaining equipment in public- 

 health administration and other aspects of the 

 health officers' profession. 



It is hardly necessary to say that the organi- 

 zation of this high-grade school marks a dis- 

 tinct epoch in the American public health 

 ■service. It still remains, however, for the 

 public, which is interested in the success of 

 schools of this sort, to make sure that a rea- 

 sonable tenure of office and proper salaries- 

 shall await those who are ready to devote their 

 lives to the new profession, and much popular 

 education along this line needs to be done. 



The actual conduct of the affairs of the- 

 school has been placed by Harvard University 

 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 in the hands of an administrative board, com- 

 posed of Professor W. T. Sedgwick, Sc.D., of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 chairman; Professor M. J. Eosenau, M.D., of 

 the Harvard Medical School, director, and 

 Professor George C. Whipple, S.B., member of 

 the American Society of Civil Engineers, 

 secretary. — Journal of the American Public 

 Health Association. 



PENSIONS AT BROWN UNIVERSITY 



An announcement of the new pension rules- 

 for members of the faculty of Brovm Univer- 

 sity was made yesterday at the annual meet- 

 ing of the corporation. That is about the only 

 one of the great institutions in this part of 

 the country that is not eligible to the benefits- 

 of the Carnegie Poundation, and while that 

 might seem to place it at a disadvantage in 

 general competition, its alumni and friends 



