The mere enumeration of the reports of special committees and individual papers read at the recent meeting of the American Public Health Association at Buffalo, N. Y. (September 15-18), is sufficient evidence of the amount of scientific sanitary inquiry accomplished. Four addresses, sixteen reports of committees and fifty-three papers—seventy-three in all—constitute a formidable list, and when to these are added the discussions on these reports and papers, which are arranged in groups according to subjects, these discussions being a characteristic of this body, which it encourages and on which it justly prides itself, its reputation as a working body can not be questioned. The Association was actually in session eight hours on the first day, eight on the second, nine on the third and five on the fourth, a total of thirty, the general business occupying scarcely an hour each day. Giving thirty minutes to each report and limiting voluntary