As soon as his commission arrives he will leave here for Fort Sam Houston, Texas, the station designated in the orders of the War Department. There are at present several troops of the Third Cavalry and a battalion of light artillery from the Third Field Artillery Regiment stationed at this important post, which is considered to be one of the most agreeable army posts in the South. On October 1, Dr. Fox will be ordered to report to Washington, where he will be detailed to attend the Army Medical College for a period of eight months. * * * * * The Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry and the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association have adopted a vote of thanks to Daniel Base, Ph. D., professor of analytical chemistry, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, for his co-operation and assistance in investigating products and for special research work done at the request of the Council. It has been definitely decided that the new operating room which is to be built at St. Joseph's Hospital is to be dedicated to the memory of Dr. Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, who died of septicemia after performing an operation upon an infected kidney at the hospital, as a result of which the patient lived. A tablet bearing Dr. Trimble's name and the incidents surrounding his martyr-like death will be placed in the operating room. * * * * * Dr. John R. Winslow read a paper on “A Case of Tuberculosis of the Fauces and Lingual Tonsils, Caused by Tuberculin Injections,” before the Section on Laryngology and Rhinology, Friday, March 26, 1909. At the same meeting Dr. J. N. Reik read a paper on “The Present Status of the Surgical Treatment of Purulent Disease of the Nasal and of the Aural Cellular Spaces: a Comparison.” * * * * * Dr. and Mrs. A. Duvall Atkinson, who have been spending a few days in Washington, have returned to their home, 924 North Charles street. * * * * * Under the title of leading men of Maryland, “The Star” has this to say concerning Dr. Louis McLane Tiffany: