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relation of the American Journal of Physiology to the American 

 Physiological Society and to propose measures to improve the facili- 

 ties for publication on the part of American Physiologists. 



Officers-elect : President — W. B. Cannon; Secretary — A. J. 

 Carlson; Treasurer — /, Erlanger; Additional members of the Coun- 

 cil — F. S. Lee, S. J. Meltzer. 



IV. THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTS: 

 EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING 



P. A. Shaffer, Secretary 



The eighth annual meeting of the American Society of Biolog- 

 ical Chemists was held at Philadelphia on December 29-31, 191 3, in 

 affiliation with the American Physiological Society, and the Ameri- 

 can Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, as 

 the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. 

 The meetings of the Society were well attended and highly success- 

 ful. The Joint meetings, as in past years, were of great interest to 

 the members of all of the societies, and these, together with the Co- 

 operation in the arrangement and printing of programs, emphasized 

 the advantages of the closer relations between the societies made 

 permanent by the f ormation of the Federation, The scientific pro- 

 gram is appended. 



Scientific program. First Session. Jefferson Medical 

 College, Monday, December 29, 2.30 p, m. A. B. Macallum: 

 Presidential address, on Some problems in cellular physics and 

 chemistry. — H. G. Wells and T. B. Osborne: The so-called vege- 

 table proteoses and their biological reactions. — H. C. Bradley: 

 Some anaphylactic reactions. — D. D. Van Slyke and G. E. Ciillen: 

 The mode of action of soy-bean urease. — R. T. Woodyatt: Glycol 

 aldehyde in phlorhizined dogs. — P. A. Kober and S. S. Graves: 

 Trikresol as a Substitute for toluene in enzyme work. — /. C. Da- 

 Costa, E. H. Funk, O. Bergeini and P. B. Hawk: A study of the 

 metabolism in Osteitis deformans. — 5. Bookman: Metabolism in 

 Diabetes insipidns. — H. I. Mattill and H. A. Mattill: Some metabolic 

 effects of bathing in Great Salt Lake. — W. H. Park, E. J. Banzhaf 

 and L. W. Famulener: Absorption of antitoxin from Solutions con- 

 taining different percentages of protein. 



