GENERAL NEWS
Howe Medal Awarded to Prof. T. Axenfeld.—The Howe medal of the American Ophthalmological Society was awarded this summer at the International Congress of Ophthalmology at Amsterdam to Prof. T. Axenfeld of Freiburg.
Minnesota Indians Examined.—A clinic for the examination of Minnesota Indians was held the first half of September at Cass Lake. Indians throughout the state were examined by five clinicians whose recommendations for treatment would be administered by local reservation physicians.
American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology.—The annual meeting of this society was held at Atlantic City, N. J., October 21 to 25, 1929, under the presidency of Dr. Harris P. Mosher, Boston, with headquarters at the Hotel Traymore. The guest of honor was Dr. Herbert Tilley, London, England. A symposium on abscess of the brain was presented by Dr. William L. Benedict, Rochester, Minn. ; Dr. Wells P. Eagleton, Newark, N. J.; Dr. William