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generous offer in placing their facilities at 

 the disposal of the graduate school; he em- 

 phasized the clinical advantages, which are 

 unusually great in proportion to the popu- 

 lation, on account of the several large 

 government institutions aggregating over 

 4,000 beds, with an excellent corps of teach- 

 ers. The president then delivered his in- 

 troductory lecture on 'Preventive Medi- 

 cine, ' tracing the progress and achievements 

 of hygiene and the methods by which the 

 beneficial results have been accomplished. 

 The teaching staff of the school consists 

 of 85 professors and adjunct professors. 

 Clinics every day from 9 a.m to 2 p.m. 

 Laboratory work every week day from 2 

 to 5 at the School of Medicine, Georgetown 

 University, 920 H Street. 



The following constitute the board of 

 directors of the Graduate Medical School: 

 General George M. Sternberg, U.S.A., 

 President (address, 2144 California Ave.) ; 

 J. Ford Thompson, Vice-President; George 

 M. Kober, Secretary and Treasurer ; Walter 

 Wyman, Surgeon-General, Public Health 

 and Marine Hospital Service ; P. M. Rixey, 

 Surgeon General U. S. Navy; R. M. 

 O'Reilly, Surgeon General U. S. Army; 

 A. B. Richardson, Superintendent Govern- 

 ment Hospital for Insane; Samuel S. 

 Adams, M.D., Swan M. Burnett, M.D., 

 Joseph Taber Johnson, M.D., Sterling 

 Ruffin, M.D., Edward A. Balloch, M.D., 

 E. A. de Schweinitz, M.D., H. L. E. John- 

 son, M.D., William C. Woodward, M.D. 



From the foregoing it would appear that 

 here we have the foundation for the estab- 

 lishment of a school of preventive medi- 

 cine, a most worthy undertaking, and the 

 important question arises how many of our 

 young medical men will avail themselves 

 of this opportunity, especially when the 

 average graduate may reason that he has 

 devoted his time, money and energy to 

 equip himself for the recognition and cure 



of diseases, and who will pay him for their 

 prevention? It is evident that so long 

 as no special qualifications are demanded 

 for the appointment of health officers in the 

 United States, a voluntary training in 

 preventive medicine will be sought by a 

 comparatively limited number, and yet the 

 undertaking is of such far-reaching im- 

 portance to the general public, that the es- 

 tablishment of fellowships in this school 

 appears urgently called for. We know of 

 no branch of science which has contributed 

 so much during the past twenty-five years 

 to the sum total of human happiness than 

 sanitary science, and perhaps no field 

 affords better prospects for fruitful results 

 than the endowment of a school of pre- 

 ventive medicine. 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS. 

 Posielsia: The Tear Book of the Minnesota 



Seaside Station, 1901. St Paul, Minnesota. 



1902. Small 8vo. Pp. 229. 



This unique book is one outgrowth of the 

 work done at the Vancouver Seaside Station 

 of the University of Minnesota in the summer 

 of 1901. It consists of seven papers which 

 were given before the members of the station, 

 covering the following subjects : ' Uses of 

 Marine Algae in Japan,' ' The Distribution of 

 Plants in Colorado,' ' The Phylogeny of the 

 Cotyledon,' ' Botanizing in Jamaica,' Algae 

 Collecting in the Hawaiian Islands,' ' The 

 Distribution of Marine Algae in Japan,' and 

 ' The Kelps of Juan de Fuca.' These are 

 illustrated by twenty-nine plates, three of 

 which are reproductions of Japanese pictures 

 showing the methods of collecting and prepar- 

 ing certain seaweeds for food. 



It is difficult to decide which are the more 

 interesting of these papers. One becomes 

 greatly interested in the account given by Mr. 

 Tendo of the uses to which marine algae are 

 put in Japan, and can not close the book until 

 he has finished the paper. Then should he 

 happen to open the book where Miss Butler 

 describes her experience in Jamaica, he is 

 charmed with the style of the enthusiastic 



