PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF 



THE FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES 



FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY, IN 



PHILADELPHIA, DEC. 28-31, 19131 



PAUL E. HOWE 



PrEPARED FROM REPORTS BY THE SeCRETARIES OF THE CONSTITUENT SOCIETIES, 



A. J. CARLSON, P. A. SHAFFER, JOHN AUER and G. H. WHIPPLE 



Contents. (I) General comment on the Federation: (A) A. J. Carlson, 

 276; (B) John Auer, 279; (II) Scientific programs of the general sessions of 

 the Federation: A. J. Carlson, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the 

 Federation for 1913, 280; (III) The American Physiological Society: A. J. 

 Carlson, Secretary, 282; (IV) The American Society of Biological Chemists: 

 P. A. Shaffer, Secretary, 285; (V) The American Society for Pharmacology and 

 Experimental Therapeutics : John Auer, Secretary, 288; (VI) The American 

 Society for Experimental Pathology : G. H. Whipple, Secretary, 290. 



I. GENERAL COMMENT ON THE FEDERATION OF AMERICAN 

 SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 



A. J. Carlson, 



Secretary of the Executive Committee for 1913 



For a number of years the members of the Physiological, Bio- 

 chemical and Pharmacological Societies have feit the desirability of 

 a closer co-operation of these and other biological societies, espe- 

 cially as regards the annual scientific meetings. At the meeting in 

 Chicago, in 1907, the Physiological Society appointed a committee 

 on policy, with instructions to report at the next annual meeting. 

 At the meeting in Baltimore, in 1908, the chairman of this commit- 

 tee, Dr. A. P. Mathews, presented a plan for reorganizing all the 

 existing biological societies into a general biological society. The 



1 For a report of the Organization of the Federation see Auer : Biochem. 

 Bull., 1913, ii, p. 269. 



276 



