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Investigators at Woods Hole. The following members of 

 the Assoc. were among the investigators, during the past summer, 

 at the Marine Biolog. Lab., Woods Hole, Mass. : Cora J. Beckwith, 

 A. J. Goldfarb, H. B. Goodrich, Mildred A. Hoge, Louise H. 

 Gregory, E. N. Harvey, R. R. Hyde, Jacques Loeb, Max W. Morse, 

 Charles Packard, A. M. Pappenheimer, A. Franklin Shull, C. R. 

 Stockard, Hardolph Wasteneys, Isabel Wheeler, L. L. Woodruff. 



Officers in societies. Dr. Carl L. Aisher g has been appointed 

 secretary of the Assoc. of Official Agric. Chemists. — Dr. Raymond 

 C. Osburn has been elected president of the N. Y. Entomolog. Soc'y. 

 — Dr. Ralph G. Stillman is president of the Nu Sigma Nu Alumni 

 Assoc. and Drs. Clinton B. Knapp and Wm. K. Terriherry are 

 members of the exec. commit. — Dr. Philip Van Ingen is a member 

 of the Public Health Hosp. and Budget Commit. of the N. Y. Acad. 

 of Med. 



Lectures. Dr. Jacob Rosenbloom recently delivered a lecture 

 before the Scientific Soc'y of the Western Penn. Hosp., Pittsburgh, 

 on the evolution of modern biochemistry. At this Institution he is 

 also giving a course of lectures, with demonstrations, on methods 

 for the analysis of urine, feces, stomach contents and breast milk 

 (five lectures), nutrition (ten lectures), and the chemistry of plant 

 and animal life (five lectures). — At the tenth anniversary of the 

 establishment of the Desert Lab. of the Carnegie Institution, which 

 was celebrated at Tucson, Ariz., Sep. 20, Prof. B. E. Livingston 

 demonstrated to the visitors, including members of the Intern. 

 Phytogeographic Soc'y, some of the results of his researches, now 

 in progress, on Water relations of plants. — Dr. F. J. Seaver de- 

 livered one of the "late summer lectures" at the N. Y. Botan. 

 Garden, on Shade trees and their enemies. 



Doctorates. Miss Marguerite T. Lee and Mr. Sidney Born 

 recently passed public examinations in final completion of the re- 

 quirements for the Ph.D. degree at Columbia Univ. The subjects 

 of their dissertations were, respectively, A study of modifications 

 of the biuret test, and The chemical Constitution of invertase. 



Miscellaneous items. Prof. R. Burton-Opitß has been elected 

 President of Alpha Omega Alpha, the honorary medical society, 

 which now has chapters in the seventeen leading medical schools. 



