AMERICAN CLIMATOLOGICAL AS SOCIATION, a medical organization founded in New York city in 1884 "for the study of Climatology, Hydrology, and Diseases of the Circulatory and Respiratory Organs." Candi dates for membership must have contributed something to the literature of the subjects before election, this insuring a select member ship, which the roll shows to be very gen erally distributed among the medical profes sion throughout the United States, with dis tinguished honorary and corresponding mem bers in England, Canada, Mexico, South America, South Africa and Australia and other parts of the world. Annual meetings have been held since the foundation, at which papers con fined strictly to the objects mentioned in the constitution of the organization are read and discussed and afterward published in the Trans actions of the association; 20 volumes have already appeared, and copies are sent annually to the principal libraries throughout the world.
The title of some recent contributions showing the value and wide scope of this association are: 'The Advantages of Southern California in the Treatment of Tuberculosis' ; 'The Climate and Waters of Hot Springs, Va.' ; 'Something of the Geography of Croupous Re cent American Contributions to the Methods of Prevention and Treatment of Pulmonary Tu berculosis); 'Climatology as a Study in the Medical 'The Climate of Santa Bar bara, California) ; 'The Climatology of Mus koka, Ontario, Canada) ; 'The Climates and Diseases of Central America and The head offices are in Philadelphia; the organ ization must not be confounded with a similar important and cofriendly society, °The Na tional Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis," with headquarters in New York city. The membership in 1916 was 136.