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Woodyatt and B. 0. Raidston: Transfusion of blood in severe 

 diabetes mellitus. — A. B. Luckhardt: The cause of diabetic poly- 

 phagia. — E. F. DiiBois: Preliminary report on work with a respira- 

 tion calorimeter in Bellevue Hospital. — W. E. Bürge: The role of 

 nascent oxygen in protecting the body from self-digestion. — A. E. 

 Livingston: The effect of castration on the hypophysis in the rabbit. 

 — R. W. Keeton: The secretion of gastric juice during parathyroid 

 tetany. — G. W. Crile: The brain-adrenal-thyroid-Hver-pancreas Syn- 

 drome (kinetic System). — T. L. Patterson: The variations in the 

 hunger contractions of the empty stomach with age. — A. J. Carlson: 

 The control of the hunger mechanism. 



Executive proceedings. Organization of the Federation. 

 The most important matter in the way of business was the ratifica- 

 tion of the work of the Conference committee, appointed at the 

 Cleveland meeting, estabhshing the Federation of American So- 

 cieties for Experimental Biolog}''. One of the aims of this Federa- 

 tion is the coordination of the scientific work at the annual meet- 

 ings, a successful beginning of which was made this year. A great 

 deal of the credit for this successful beginning is due to the splendid 

 facilities offered by the Philadelphia institutions, and the careful 

 planning and hard work of the local committee. 



New members : E. F. DuBois, Cornell Univ. Med. Coli. ; E. M. 

 Ewing, N. Y. Univ. and Bellevue Hosp. Med. Coli. ; G. Fahr, Johns 

 Hopkins Med. Seh.; Ma&^/ P. FitsGerald, N. Y. City; R. E. Gesell, 

 Washington Univ. ; O. C. Glaser, Univ. of Mich. ; P. E. Howe, 

 Columbia Univ. ; /. H. King, Johns Hopkins Med. Seh. ; E. Ladholz, 

 Univ. of Penn.; H. Laurents, Yale Univ.; H. A. Mattill, Univ. of 

 Utah; E. L. Porter, Harvard Med. Seh.; 0. O. Stoland, Univ. of 

 S. Dak. ; /. E. Sweet, Univ. of Penn. ; ^. Tashiro, Univ. of Chicago; 

 A. L. Tatum, Univ. of Chicago. The total membership of the So- 

 ciety is now 210. 



Next MEETING. Washington University presented an invita- 

 tion to meet in St. Louis next year. The Society voted in favor of 

 meeting in St. Louis, but the final decision is left with the Executive 

 Committee of the Federation. 



Amer. Journ. of Physiol, The editorial committee (Drs. 

 Porter, Carlson, Erlanger, Howell, Lee, Lusk, Macallum) was in- 

 structed by the Society to report at the next annual meeting on the 



