PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SECTION OF 



THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 



ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, 



SEPTEMBER 10-12, 1913 



I. EXECUTIVE PROCEEDINGS 



The Section met with the secretary acting as the chairman at 

 the Session of the first day. Announcements were made to the 

 effect that the chairman, Dr. C. L. Aisberg, was in attendance at the 

 meeting of the American Public Health Association, at Colorado 

 Springs and hence would not be present at the first day's session of 

 the Section ; that the Council of the Society had approved the by- 

 laws as proposed by the committee for the proposed formation of the 

 Section into a Division ;^ that a copy of the by-laws, which would 

 be presented for consideration and final action at the last session, 

 was available for inspection ; and that a nominating committee con- 

 sisting of P. Rudnick, M. X. Sullivan, and P. A. Kober had been 

 appointed. The Section then proceeded with the reading of papers, 

 of which abstracts are given on pages 80-95. 



Following the reading of papers, the chairman addressed the 

 Section. (See page y].^ 



The session closed with the business meeting. The by-laws, as 

 recommended by the committee and approved by the Council, werc 

 unanimously adopted. The nominating committee reported their 

 recommendations : Chairman, C. L. Aisberg; vice-chairman and 

 secretary, 1. K. Phelps; members of the executive committee — W. 

 D. Bancroft, chairman, Edward Kremers, A. W. Dox, A. D. 

 Emmett, and D. D. Van Slyke. The gentlemen nominated were 

 unanimously elected the officers for the ensuing year. The secre- 

 tary read a Statement drawn up by W. A. Noyes concerning the 

 advisability of the Division taking some action toward securing a 

 special Journal restricted to organic and biological papers, and pub- 



1 Aisberg: Biochemical Bulletin, 1911, i, p. 94. 



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