speculum is introduced and the larynx inspected. In adults under anesthesia the same procedure is used, and will be found much simpler than the extended position. In adults, after the speculum is in position, if the anterior part of the larynx is not seen, gentle pressure on the thyroid cartilage will bring the anterior commissure into view. Operations can be done through the tube satisfactorily. With the different methods of direct laryngoscopy it is possible to remove any growth from the larynx. 919 N. Charles Street. ITEMS. The Board of Trustees of the Permanent Endowment Fund of the University held its annual meeting on January 11. Judge Stockbridge was re-elected president and Mr. J. Harry Tregoe secretary-treasurer, and, with Dr. Samuel C. Chew and Judge Sams, constitute the executive committee for the year 1909. The funds and securities in hand total the gross sum of $18,635.74. ------- A special meeting of the Washington Branch of the General Alumni Association was held at the office of the president, Dr. Monte Griffith, March 11, 1909, to consider the advisability of petitioning the Board of Regents to establish a Board of Alumni Counsellors, a paid president and a Board of Trustees, independent of the teaching faculties. Resolutions in favor of these measures were adopted. ------- Dr. Louis W. Knight, class of 1866, of Baltimore, has presented to Loyola College a valuable collection of papal medals. ------- Drs. H. O. and J. N. Reik have removed their offices to 506 Cathedral street. ------- Drs. W. D. Scott and W. E. Wiegand attended the banquet of the Virginia Military Institute Alumni Association of Baltimore, held at the New Howard House, March 2, 1909. Dr. W. D. Scott responded to the toast "The Younger Generation and the Splendid Work of the Virginia Military Institute Today." ------- Major William F. Lewis, class of 1893, U. S. A. Medical Corps, has been relieved from duty at Fort Thomas and ordered to sail on June 5, 1909, for the Philippine Islands, via San Francisco, for duty. ------- Dr. Hugh A. Maughlin, class of 1864, of 121 North Broadway, an official in the United States Custom Service, who was assistant surgeon in the Sixth Maryland Regiment during the Civil War, is dangerously ill of pleurisy at his home. Dr. Maughlin is a member of Wilson Post, G. A. R. ------- Dr. James A. Nydegger, class of 1892, past assistant surgeon, United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, has been promoted to the rank of surgeon. -------