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men is from about the first week in July to 

 September, and the schools have by that time 

 all closed. Most of those who live in the 

 east will want to utilize the trip to the associa- 

 tion meeting as their summer vacation, and 

 if the dat« were that usually adopted for the 

 association meeting, these would not be able 

 to attend. In July Portland has a delightful 

 climate, and consequently there need be no 

 fear of hot weather. 



We also learn from the Journal of the 

 American Medical Association that the Ameri- 

 can Society of Tropical Medicine has been in- 

 corporated in Philadelphia. The officers are : 

 President, Dr. Thomas H. Penton, Philadel- 

 phia; vice-presidents, Dr. James Anders, Phil- 

 adelphia, and Dr. I. G. Kinyon, Glenolden, Pa. ; 

 secretary. Dr. Joseph McParland, Philadel- 

 phia; assistant secretary. Dr. John M. Swan, 

 Philadelphia; treasv/rer. Dr. Wharton Sinkler; 

 council : Drs. E. G. Curtin, Judson Daland, 

 Allen J. Smith, and W. M. L. Coplin. The 

 men elected to honorary membership for valu- 

 able research work in the prevention of 

 tropical diseases are: Surgeon-General Will- 

 iam H. Porwood ; Rear- Admiral Surgeon P. M. 

 Eixey, Dr. Walter Wyman, Sir Patrick Man- 

 son of England, Dr. A. Laveran of the 

 Pasteur Institute, France; Professor Robert 

 Koch, Germany; Professor Charles J. Martin, 

 Sydney, N. S. W. ; Professor Aristides Agra- 

 monte, University of Havana, Cuba ; Dr. Fred- 

 erick Montazambert, chief health officer of the 

 Dominion of Canada ; Professor Kitasato, 

 University of Tokio, and Professor Eduardo 

 Liceaga, head of the department of health, 

 Mexico. 



. The Board of Estimate of New York City 

 has appropriated $10,000 to pay the expenses 

 of a commission of medical experts to pass on 

 the question whether or not pneumonia is a 

 contagious disease. 



The Emperor Francis Joseph laid on June 

 21 the foundation stone of the new General 

 and University Hospital for Vienna, to re- 

 place the old general hospital built 120 years 

 ago. 



It is announced that if sufficient support 

 can be secured it is intended to publish from 



the office of The Journal of Medical Research, 

 Boston, an atlas of bacterial infections in 

 man. It will consist of one hundred plates — 

 a few in color — with descriptive text. The 

 reproductions will be ten by twelve inches, a 

 large number of them with but one figure on 

 a plate, printed on heavy paper and in the best 

 manner. The volume will be furnished bound 

 in half morocco, and copies will be numbered, 

 for the edition will be limited. The price will 

 be ten dollars delivered free in the United 

 States and Canada. The authors will be Dr. 

 H. C. Ernst, professor of bacteriology in the 

 Harvard Medical School, and Dr. S. B. Wol- 

 bach, first assistant resident pathologist to the 

 Boston City Hospital. 



Mr. W. W. Canada, consul at Vera Cruz, 

 Mexico, writes that an agitation has been on 

 foot for some time looking to the passage of 

 a law to prevent the wanton destruction of 

 birds throughout Mexico; in fact, a proposed 

 law has already been presented to the govern- 

 ment by the Association for the Protection of 

 Birds, and it is confidently expected that it 

 will meet the approval of the executive. This 

 law is intended to prevent the killing of cer- 

 tain classes of birds useful to the agriculturist. 

 Other kinds, such as for instance game birds, 

 may be killed only at stated periods of the 

 year. All birds of prey, and others destructive 

 to the interests of the farmer, may be killed 

 at any time and by anybody. Such a law, if 

 rigidly enforced, can not fail to be of great 

 benefit to the people of the United States, as 

 for instance in the case of migratory birds 

 that winter in Mexico, or even farther south, 

 and that return to the north in the proper 

 season if not killed off in the meantime. 



A Wild Birds Protection Acts Amendment 

 (St. Kilda) Bill has been introduced in the 

 British parliament by Sir Herbert Maxwell. 

 To it is prefixed the following explanatory 

 memorandum : " By section 9 of the Wild 

 Birds Protection Act, 1880, it was provided 

 that the operation of that act should not ex- 

 tend to the island of St. Kilda. The object 

 of this bill is by extending the protection 

 afforded by that act to St. Kilda to provide 

 means for saving the St. Kilda wran and other 



