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active hand. This, in our opinion, can be best done by the foundation of a building for the laboratories, lecture halls, etc., for Anatomy, Physiology, Chemistry and the allied subjects upon the University grounds. The sum of $80,000 to $100,000 would be needed for this purpose. The Alumni could show their loyalty by raising this money and putting it into such a building. A liberal endowment would surely follow such an independent move on our part. The plan for raising this money, in its crude outlines, would be to request the Alumni of the school, some three thousand in number, to pledge themselves to pay a sum of money ranging from five dollars upwards per annum for five years, such subscriptions to be secured by promissory note, or otherwise. The handling of this scheme, and of the expected fund, should be vested in a joint committee of the Alumni Association and the Faculty. We present this in brief outline, and would recommend to your Honorable Body that you make this proposition a special order of a meeting to be called in the near future.

Respectfully submitted,

ROBERT LUEDEKING,
W. H. WARREN,
R. J. TERRY.

The consideration of an Alumni Association Endowment Fund was taken up by the Alumni Association at a meeting held on Monday, May 7th. The Dean stated that the material aid indicated in the communication of February 12th had materialized. In first order the Medical Department had been accepted by the Board of Directors as a full and integral part of the University, and that a gift of $25,000 each, for the Medical School, had been secured from Mr. Robert S. Brookings and Mr. Adolphus Busch. In the discussion that followed it was considered advisable to make the Alumni Fund applicable to broader purposes, i. e., not alone a building fund,

but a general endowment fund for the work of the first two years.

As a practical result of the discussion $5,575 were subscribed by thirty-four of the members present.

This is a most gratifying beginning. About $1,000 have been since added to the fund.

A committee of the Alumni has been organized with the President of the Association, Dr. Wm. S. Deutsch, as chairman, and Drs. H. Tuholske, Robert Luedeking, John B. Shapleigh, Albert E. Taussig, Meyer Wiener and Wayne Smith as members.

The committee is organizing an active campaign. Subscriptions are now in order and should be sent to Dr. John B. Shapleigh, Treasurer, Humboldt Building, St. Louis.

At the annual commencement, held at the Odeon, on May 24th, the Dean, Dr. Robert Luedeking, addressed the assembly in presentation of the portrait of Dr. Gustav Baumgarten, Professor of the Practice of Medicine, the occasion being the semi-centennial of his graduation from the old St. Louis Medical College. Dr. Baumgarten read an address in response. At the conclusion of his paper, the Chancellor conferred upon the Doctor the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws of Washington University.

The Faculty and Staff and Student-body, together with Alumni, pupils of Dr. Baumgarten, co-operated in obtaining this portrait for the School, in recognition of the high qualities and esteem of the Doctor as a man, a physician and a teacher.

We are to be congratulated that the result is a good piece of painting, a good work of art, and a perfect likeness of Dr. Baumgarten. The artist, Mr. R. E. Miller, has taken the subject in his natural environment.

"A delightfully 'familiar' note in the portrait of Dr. Baumgarten is the little ash bucket that always stands on his desk.

He is seated at that desk, where his patients have seen him hundreds of times, and his books are around him. Everything about the picture (for it is more than a mere portrait) suggests the good doctor, kindly, sympathetic, yet not to be trifled with by the pampered, neurotic patient who refuses to carry out instructions. In the eyes there is all that searching quality, that ability to see right through you while he seems to be studying the design of the wall paper. The pose is intent and wholly characteristic."

Dr. Charles Claude Guthrie, who comes to us as Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, has the following recent works, completed or in progress, for publication in the near future:

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Anatomical Modifications of Blood Vessels by Surgical Alteration of the Circulation. (With Dr. Alexis Carrel.)

A Simple Method of Making Eck's Fistula.

3. Technique of Anastomosis of Blood Vessels.

4. Further Results of Modification of the Circulation in Goitre. Replantation and Transplantation of Limbs.

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6. The Physiological Basis of Blood-Vessel Surgery.

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The Relation of Pressure in the Coronary Vessels to the Activity
of the Isolated Heart, and Some Closely Related Problems.
(Preliminary note.) Science, 1906. (With Mr. F. H. Pike.)
A Comparative Study of the Efficiency of Artificial Nutrient
Solutions on the Heart and Certain Other Tissues.

The Relation of Coronary Circulation to Cardiac Activity.
The Rhythmical Properties of Blood Vessels.

Further Evidence of the Presence of Cardio-Accelerator Fibres
in the Vagus Nerves of Mammals.

Evidence of Local Organ-Controlling Mechanisms Which Are
Efficient in the Absence of All Central Nervous Connections.
On the Seat of Origin of Cardio-Accelerator Impulses.
Studies on the Cardio-Regulative Mechanism of the Heart in situ.
On the Effect of Changes in Blood Pressure on Respiration.

PUBLICATIONS.

Issued by Officers of Instruction in the Medical Department, from April 1, 1905, to March 1, 1906.)

ALLISON, NATHANIEL

"A Study of the Anatomy of Congenital Dislocation of the Hip After Manipulative Reduction (American Journal of Orthopedic Surgery, October, 1905).

"The Tabetic Foot as a Factor in the Ataxia of the Lower Extremities in Tabes Dorsalis" (with Sidney I. Schwab, Journal of the American Medical Association, December 16, 1905).

"Congenital Dislocation of the Hip." Report of the ultimate results following the treatment of eleven cases. (Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association, Vol. XI, No. 8, February, 1906).

Annual Review of the Year's Progress in Orthopedics for 1905 (Interstate Medical Journal, Vol. XIII, No. 1, January, 1906).

"Warty Growths, Callosities, and Hyperidrosis in Relation to Malpositions of the Feet" (with W. A. Hardaway, Journal of Cutaneous Diseases, February, 1906).

BABLER, EDMUND A.

"Surgery of Typhoid Perforations" (Bulletin of the Medical Department of Washington University, March, 1905; also Virginia Medical Semi-Monthly, August, 1905).

"Rectal Palpation" (Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association, February, 1906).

"Significance of Sudden Severe Abdominal Pain" (New York and Philadelphia Medical Journals, August 5 and 12, 1905).

"Tumors of the Cerebellum" (Courier of Medicine, November and December, 1905, and January and February, 1906). "Looking Back" (Courier of Medicine, January and February, 1906).

"Significance of Sudden Severe Pain in Right Inguinal Region" (Bulletin of the Medical Department of Washington University, September, 1905).

BARTLETT, WILLARD.

"A Simple Heat Method of Sterilizing and Storing Catgut" (Interstate Medical Journal, Vol. XII, No. 3, 1905).

"The Value of Getting Certain Patients Up Very Early After Laparotomy" (Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association, May, 1905.

Review of the Surgical Literature of the Year 1905 (Interstate Medical Journal, January, 1906).

"An External Metal Support Intended for Direct Application to the Fragments of a Fractured Long Bone" (Annals of Surgery, February, 1906).

BEHRENS, LOUIS H.

President's Address before the Medical Society of City Hospital Alumni (The Medical Fortnightly, Vol. XXIX, No. 4, pp. 88-91.

BLAIR, V. P.

"Conservation of the Parietal Motor Nerves in Abdominal Section" (Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics, Vol. I, No. 2, pp. 152-157, August, 1905; and Interstate Medical Journal, Vol. XII, No. 8, 1905).

"Osteology and the General Practitioner" (Interstate Medical Journal, Vol. XII, No. 7, 1905).

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