The preliminary bulletin of the Fourth International Congress for School
Hygiene announces a meeting, which is to be held in Buffalo, N. Y.,
August 23 to 30 next. The three preceding congresses were held in 1904
in Nuremberg; in 1907 in London, and in 1910 in Paris. The president of
the congress is Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard
University; the vice-presidents are: Dr. W. H, Welch, professor of
pathology at Johns Hopkins University and Dr. Henry P. Walcott, chairman
of the Massachusetts Board of Health. The lists of vice-presidents and
members of the international committee includes the names of some of the
foremost men of science in Europe and Asia. Buffalo has raised $40,000
to meet the expenses of the Congress and to entertain the delegates.