Dr. Hans Zinsser, of the Harvard Medical School, went to Russia in the summer of 1923 as Epidemic Commissioner for the Health Section of the League of Nations, to confer with the Russian authorities in an experiment in Cholera and Typhoid Vaccination and to report on the cholera situation.

The Rockefeller Foundation is appropriating $60,080 a year for the interchange of public health personnel, and $32,840 a year for the epidemiological intelligence service. In 1923, further grants of $10,500 for 1923, and $21,000 for 1924, were made to be used to enlist the co-operation of health statisticians. Intellectual Co-operation.

Dr. Algernon Coleman, Director of the American University Union in Europe, assisted at the Third Session, and was also appointed a member of the Directing Board of the International University Information Office, Geneva.

George Ellery Hale, President of National Research Council, member at First Session.

Waldo G. Leland, of the Carnegie Institute, replaced Professor Millikan at the Third Session of the Committee.

Prof. Robert Andrews Millikan, California Technological Institute, member.

Prof. J. R. Schramm, Cornell University, member of subcommittee on Bibliography.

Col. John H. Wigmore, Northwestern University Law School, substituted for Professor Millikan at Second Session, assisted by Prof. Paul Perigord.

Prof. Allyn A. Young, Harvard University, collaborated in studies.

The Institute of International Education of New York and the American University Union are co-operating with the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation pending the formation of an American national committee on intellectual co-operation.

Mediations.

AALAND ISLANDS DISPUTE:

Abram I. Elkus, former Ambassador to Turkey, judge of the New York Court of Appeals, member of the Commission of Rapporteurs.

MEMEL TERRITORY:

Norman H. Davis, President of the Commission appointed by the Council to report on the settlement of the Memel question, assisted by Arthur Bullard.

The Permanent Court of International Justice.

John Bassett Moore, elected judge of the Permanent Court, September 14-15, 1921, to serve nine years.

Elihu Root, former Secretary of State, served as a member of the Committee of Jurists to formulate the Draft Scheme.

James Brown Scott assisted Elihu Root on the Committee of Jurists to formulate the Draft Scheme.

Reduction of Armament.

Temporary Mixed Commission on Armaments.

CHEMICAL WARFARE:

Prof. William H. Welch, of Johns Hopkins University, member of a committee on the bacteriology of Chemical Warfare. Prof. Walter B. Cannon, Harvard University, member. Prof. J. Enrique Zanetti, Columbia University, member. Secretariat.

Ruth Bache-Wiig, formerly Indexer in Library.

Alice C. Bartlett, Assistant Librarian.

Miss M. E. Day, formerly Assistant Librarian.

Miss R. Elwood, secretary, Mandates Section.

Raymond B. Fosdick, former Under-Secretary General. Huntington Gilchrist, member of Administrative Commissions Section.

John Raeburn Green, formerly temporary member, Legal Section.

Manley O. Hudson, professor of international law, Harvard Law School, member of Legal Section.

Howard R. Huston, Head of Establishment Department.
Helen R. Keller, formerly Assistant Librarian.

Whitney H. Shepardson, assisted former Under-Secretary General Raymond B. Fosdick.

Arthur Sweetser, Assistant Director, Information Section.

Sarah Wambaugh, temporary member, 1920, Administrative Commissions Section.

Florence Wilson, Librarian.

Social Questions.

Emma D. Cushman, member of Committee on Deportation of Women and Children.

Major C. Claflin Davis, of the Red Cross, served as a member of the Commission for the Relief of Refugees, also Mr. A. C. Ringland of the Near East Relief.

Henry Morgenthau, former ambassador to Turkey, member of Commission for the Permanent Settlement of Greek Refugees. Reginald Heber Smith, Secretary of the American National Committee on Legal Aid Work, at work on report for Fifth Assembly. The Committee has provided funds for a special conference on this subject to be held in Geneva, July, 1924.

Traffic in Opium.

Mrs. Hamilton Wright, assessor on Advisory Committee. Traffic in Women and Children.

Dr. Josephine Baker, member of the Health Committee, assisted at Conference on Traffic in Women and Children, 1921.

Major Bascom Johnson has been appointed assessor on the Committee of Inquiry into the extent of the international traffic in women and children.

Col. William F. Snow, director of the American Social Hygiene Association, chairman of Body of Experts to inquire into extent of international traffic in women and children.

Social Hygiene Bureau of New York is devoting $75,000 to this investigation.

International Labor Office.

Dr. John B. Andrews, secretary of the Committee on Unhealthy Processes, Conference of International Labor Office, 1919. Mr. C. I. Crissey, of Michigan, assisted in work at Geneva. Fred C. Croxton, expert on Advisory Committee on Emigration of the International Labor Office.

Horace A. Davis, of Boston, assisted in work at Geneva. William A. DuPuy, of Washington, assisted in work at Geneva.

Prof. Herbert Feis, University of Kansas, assisted in work at Geneva.

Andrew Furuseth, president of the International Seamen's Union of America, attended second Conference of International Labor Office, 1920.

Ernest

Greenwood, American correspondent, 1920-1924. Leifur Magnusson, American correspondent, 1924.

Dr. Royal Meeker, former Chief of the Research Division.

Germany-Member of the International Labor Organization, registers treaties, participates in general conferences convened by League; national representatives on Committee on Intellectual Co-operation, Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium, Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit.

Russia-Represented at European Health Conference at Warsaw, 1922; participating in health activities generally; co-operated in repatriating prisoners of war; represented at conference to apply the principles of the Washington treaty on limitation of naval armament to the world.

Turkey-Has assisted League humanitarian commissions working in her territory. Agreed at Lausanne to apply for membership.

III. THE ASSEMBLY

"ART. 3. The Assembly shall consist of representatives of the Members of the League.

"The Assembly shall meet at stated intervals and from time to time, as occasion may require, at the Seat of the League, or at such other place as may be decided upon.

"The Assembly may deal at its meetings with any matter within the sphere of action of the League or affecting the peace of the world.

"At meetings of the Assembly each Member of the League shall have one vote, and may have not more than three Representatives."-Covenant.

Meetings-1. November 15-December 15, 1920. President, M. Hymans of Belgium. Representatives of 41 Member states present.

2. September 5-October 5, 1921. President, Jonkheer van Karnebeek of the Netherlands. Representatives of 45 Member states present.

3. September 4-30, 1922. President, Agustín Edwards of Chile. Representatives of 46 Member states present.

4. September 3-29, 1923. President, Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza of Cuba. Representatives of 49 Member states present.

5. September 1- 1924.

References-Full proceedings: Records of the Assembly. Plenary meetings. Meetings of Committee. 1920- 3 vols. and index annually. See for 1920, The First Assembly of the League of Nations (World Peace Foundation); for 1921, Monthly Summary, I, p. 106-147; for 1922, Monthly Summary, II, p. 208–244; for 1923, Monthly Summary, III, p. 137-239.

Organization and Procedure-President and board of 12 vice presidents, six of whom are chairmen of committees in which work is first studied and recommendations formulated.

Agenda prepared in advance. Special committee places new questions on agenda during the session.

Questions are first dealt with in committees consisting of one