Notes And News

Dr. C. Charles Burlingame, Chairman of the Salmon Memorial Committee, has announced the selection of Dr. Roy Graham Hoskins as the Salmon Memorial Lecturer for 1945. Dr. Hoskins, Research Associate in Physiology, Harvard Medical School and Director, the Memorial Foundation for Neuro-Endoctrine Research, Boston, Mass.; Director, Worcester State Hospital, Worcester, Mass., has for some eighteen years, devoted much of his time to research concerning endocrine disturbances in mental disease. He is internationally known for his contributions to both the neuro-endocrinological and physiological fields.

“The Biology of Schizophrenia” will be the title of the Salmon Lecture Series to be given at the Academy of Medicine, 2 East 103rd Street, on three successive Friday evenings—November 2nd, 9th and 16th, at 8:30 P. M.

Born in Nevinville, Iowa, July 3, 1880, Dr. Hoskins taught for some years before receiving his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University Medical School in 1920. His teaching has embraced the fields of zoology and physiology at Kansas State, Harvard Medical School, Starling-Ohio Medical College, Northwestern University Medical School and Johns Hopkins University Medical School, prior to his appointment as head of the Department of Physiology of Ohio State University, 1920-1927. Since 1927 he has been established at Harvard University.

His constant research has resulted in comprehensive contributions to the scientific editorial and writing fields. He served as editor-in-chief of “Endocrinology” from 1917-1940 and again from 1942-1943. In 1942 he accepted and still holds the position of managing editor of “Journal of Endocrinology”.He served, in addition, as associate editor of “Endocrinology and Metabolism”,1922; “American Journal of Physiology”,1936-1942 and “psychosomatic Medicine”,1938 to the present time.

Dr. Hoskins has authored two books—“Tides of Life” and “Endocrinology—