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conducted with teachers of these subjects in the S. A. T. C. courses of various 
universities and colleges. 
4. An examination of lantern slide material which may be available for the 
illustration of lectures in the S. A. T. C. courses on the Geography of Europe 
has been undertaken by Prof. E. B. Mathews of Johns Hopkins University 
as a committee of one for the Division, his necessary expenses to be paid 
from the appropriation for the Division. - 
5. Work of the Division in directions previously reported has been continued. 
Division of Medicine and Related Sciences. — An important step taken by the 
Medical Division during the month was to send abroad Dr. Roger G. Perkins 
of Cleveland as Medical Associate of the Research Information Service in 
Paris. Dr. Perkins will inform himself of the medical research now going on in 
England and France and will submit reports from time to time with a view to 
correlating and stimulating research activities in this country. 
Five hundred dollars was voted for study of the etiology of the so-called 
Spanish Influenza under the direction of Dr. W. H. Park of New York City. 
Working committees were appointed for the improvement of transfusion 
methods; for the treatment of chronic anaemia; and for research along anatomi- 
cal lines. Many progress reports have been received and several new re- 
searches instituted. 
Paul Brockett, Assistant Secretary. 
