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Students' Army Training Corps at four hundred colleges in 

 the fall of 1918. 



A commission for the study and control of epidemic influ- 

 enza was appointed by Governor Whitman, of which Dr. Wins- 

 low was appointed Secretary. 



Among the Associate Editors of the Journal of Physical 

 Anthropology, a new publication, are Dr. Clark Wissler and 

 Dr. J. H. McGregor. 



Dr. Pliny E. Goddard is one of the editors of The Inter- 

 national Journal of American Linguistics, recently inaugurated. 



Mr. Herbert P. Whitlock and Dr. George F. Kunz are 

 among the Associate Editors of the American Mineralogist. 



HOSPITALITY TO SOCIETIES 



As for many years past, the Museum provided meeting 

 rooms for educational and scientific societies, among them the 

 New York Academy of Sciences, the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, the American Scenic and His- 

 toric Preservation Society, the American Ornithologists' 

 Union, and the Horticultural Society of New York. The De- 

 partment of Education of the City of New York has held 

 lectures in our auditorium on Tuesday and Saturday evenings 

 as for many years. 



The British Educational Mission to the United States, com- 

 posed of distinguished representatives of the Universities of 

 England, Scotland and Ireland, was entertained 

 British by the Trustees on October 10. The Mission 



Mission came to this country to develop closer coopera- 



tion between British and American institutions 

 and to strengthen the bond of sympathy and understanding 

 between the two nations. The party made a tour of inspection 

 of the halls and gave special attention to the methods of co- 

 operation with the public schools. The members of the Mis- 

 sion were : Dr. Arthur Everett Shipley, Vice-Chancellor, Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge; the Reverend Edward M. Walker, 

 Fellow and Librarian of Queen's College, Oxford University; 

 Sir Henry Miers, Vice-Chancellor, University of Manchester ; 



