Historical Review of the Medical Research Committee: Of the American Red Cross in France.

Compiled from the Minutes of the Secretary and the Reports inWar Medicine.It is fitting that in.this final mumber of War Medicine a review of the research activities of the Red Cross should be published.The Red Cross has generously contributed to aid in the solution of medical and surgical problems which have arisen during the war.and has taken an active part in the distribution to the Army Medical Services of such medical knowledg'e as was available.Its main activities have been promoted and directed under the guidance of its medical adviser, Colonel Alexander Lambert, and it is largely due to his untiring energy and scien tific insight that such success has been attained.The work has been chiefly done through the medium of a committee of inter-allied composition, the Research Committee of the A. R. C. It is with the formation and growth of this and its dependent organizations that the present history is concerned.Before America entered into the war, it was recognized by many of the medical men working in military hospitals that a .greateramount of co-operation between the professional services of the allied armies would lead, to a more rapid advance of medical knowledge, and consequently to a more efficient treatment of the war casualties.The formation of the Inter-allied Surgical Conference was perhaps the first mani festation of this sentiment.This, however, was limited to the formal consideration of surgical problems, and the meetings This Committee was composed as follows :