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son, who served temporarily as chemist during the summer in the 

 Turck Inst. (N. Y.), has been reappointed to his assistantship in 

 this laboratory, 



Miscellaneous items. Prof. Gies, on Oct. 11, delivered the 

 second of the nine " autumn lectures " at the N. Y. Botan. Garden 

 in a series on foods, subject : The digestion of vegetable foods. 

 Prof. Gies was associated with Drs. L. H. Baekeland and R. E. 

 Doohttle as an appointed representative of the Amer. Chem. Soc'y 

 in the N. Y. Gen. Commit. for the entertainment of the foreign 

 delegates arriving at the port of New York to attend the Third Int. 

 Congr. on Refrigeration (p. 126). 



Volume III of " Studies in Cancer and alhed subjects, under the 

 auspices of the George Crocker Special Research Fund at Columbia 

 Univ.," was recently issued. It contains reprints of papers from 

 the departments of zoology, surgery, clinical pathology and biolog. 

 chemistry. "Part IV: Dep't of biolog. chemistry," which was 

 edited by Prof. Gies, occupies pages 151-295 and consists of papers 

 by Prof. Gies and Drs. Max Einhorn, S. S. Friedman, Max Kahn, 

 Morris H. Kahn, D. J. Kaliski, Reuben Ottenberg, Jacob Rosen- 

 bloom, Charles H. Sanford, and J. W. Weinstein. 



