The Medical Society of the State of New York invites all physicians of the country to its hundred and ninth annual meeting which is to be held in Buffalo, April 27-29. This will probably be the largest medical meeting of the year, except perhaps that of the A. M. A. in San Francisco.
Messrs. J. D. Edgar, Arnold Hamel, R. A. Johnson, and H. A. Rudd, and Miss Olga Hansen, all of the class of 1915, have been elected to the Minnesota chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha, the national honorary fraternity in medicine, the membership of which is based solely upon scholarship.
Dr. James E. Moore, who has practised in Minneapolis for thirty-two years, twenty-eight of which have been devoted to the exclusive practice of surgery, has given up his practice and will, hereafter, give his entire time to the Medical School of the University of Minnesota, except for a limited amount of consultation work.
In our last issue we made the statement that the Ramsey County Medical Society would not admit a physician to membership until he had been a resident of the county for one year. This should have been written so as to convey the meaning that a physician must have been a resident of some county for at least a year, not necessarily Ramsey County.
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“The Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Incorporated,” with an initial endowment fund of $1,500,000, has recently been incorporated. It has for its object the endowment of the graduate medical instruction and research work which has for years been a feature of the Mayo Clinic, at Rochester. The founders are: William J. Mayo, Charles H. Mayo, Henry S. Plummer, Edward Starr Judd and Donald C. Balfour. The board of temporary trustees having in charge for the present the investment of the fund is composed of Bert W. Eaton, George W. Granger and Harry J. Harwick. The board of scientific directors is composed of Louis B. Wilson, William F. Braasch, E. Hessel Beckman, A. H. Sanford, and Walter D. Sheldon. For the present the expenses of the foundation will be met by annual contributions from the Mayo Clinic, the income from the endowment being allowed to accumulate and increase the principal.
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OFFICE FURNITURE FOR SALE
A good roll-top desk and other office furniture is offered for sale at a reasonable price. 616 Syndicate Bldg., Minneapolis.