Official Notes
ESTABLISH GEORGE MINOT LECTURESHIP
For years, officers of the Section on Experimental Medicine and Therapeutics have desired to honor, by establishing a "name lecture," an American investigator who has made an exceptional contribution to the development of clinical investigation and therapeutics. At the Interim Session of the Association in St. Louis last November, three officers of the section, Dwight L. Wilbur, San Francisco; Edgar van Nuys Allen, Rochester, Minn., and Carl V. Moore, St. Louis, suggested that immediate steps be taken to obtain approval of the idea from the Council on Scientific Assembly and that the lecture be named in honor of Dr. George Richard Minot, Boston, whose contributions to medical knowledge of the causes and methods of control of pernicious anemia have been recognized throughout the world. Both suggestions were unanimously supported by the executive committee of the section, and approval has been obtained from the Council