The preliminary bulletin of the Fourth International Congress for School Hygiene announces a meeting, which is to be held in Buffalo, N. Y., August 23 to 30 next. The three preceding congresses were held in 1904 in Nuremberg; in 1907 in London, and in 1910 in Paris. The president of the congress is Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard University; the vice-presidents are: Dr. W. H, Welch, professor of pathology at Johns Hopkins University and Dr. Henry P. Walcott, chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Health. The lists of vice-presidents and members of the international committee includes the names of some of the foremost men of science in Europe and Asia. Buffalo has raised $40,000 to meet the expenses of the Congress and to entertain the delegates. 3 TO 1 FOR TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL That the people are coming to favor taxing themselves for public measures to control tuberculosis is indicated by a referendum vote on the establishment of a county tuberculosis hospital in eight towns of St. Lawrence county, New York. The public health committee of the board of supervisors failed to draw up a question to be voted upon in all the towns of the county as instructed by the board. But eight town supervisors took an informal vote on the question. The question carried in all eight towns. The ballots stood more than three to one in the affirmative. This is the first time that this question has been submitted to a vote of the people in New York state. Three of the towns are distinctly rural and only one of the eight communities is a city. CALENDAR OF CONFERENCES CONFERENCES APRIL AND MAY CONFERENCES ALABAMA SOCIOLOGICAL CONGRESS, Birmingham, Ala. April 22–24, 1913. William M. McGrath, Pres., Associated Charities, Birmingham. BAPTIST CONVENTION, NORTHERN, Detroit, Mich., May 13–20, 1913. Con. Sec’y. Rev. W. C. Bitting, St. Louis. BOYS, General Assembly of Workers with. Culver, Ind., May 17–30, 1913. Information may be secured from the Boys’ Work Dept., Y. M. C. A., 124 E. 28th Street, New York. CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, New York City Conference on. May 14–15, 1913. Sec’y, John B. Prest, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York. CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, Semi-annual Conference, Colorado State Board of. Denver. May 13, 1913. Sec’y, William Thomas, Capitol Building, Denver. CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS, Arkansas Conference of, Little Rock, Ark., May 13–15, 1913. Sec’y, Murray A. Auerbach, Little Rock. CITY PLANNING, National Conference On. Chicago, May 5–7, 1913. Sec’y, Flavel Shurtlett, 19 Congress Street, Boston. CONSERVATION OF HUMAN LIFE, Conference on. Portland, Ore., May 9–11, 1913. Information can be secured by addressing Reed College, Portland.