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Presented by title. E. B. Hart and E. V. McCollum: The 

 influence of restricted rations on growth. — E. B. Hart and E. V. 

 Nelson: Production of ammonia by herbivora as a protection against 

 acidosis. — E. B. Hart, E. V. McColliim and H. Steenbock: The in- 

 fluence of restricted rations on reproduction. — /. Rosenbloom: 

 Further studies on the quantitative chemical composition of urinary 

 calcuH. — /. Rosenbloom: On the quantitative chemical composition 

 of gall stones. — /. Rosenbloom and T. Diller: Metabolism studies 

 in a case of family periodic paralysis. — F. T. Stewart, 0. Bergeim 

 and P. B. Hawk: Calcium metaboHsm in thyro-parathyroidectomy. 

 — P. E. Howe and P. B. Hawk: Variations in the hydrogen ion 

 concentration of the urine of man accompanying fasting and the 

 low- and high-protein regeneration periods. 



Executive proceedings. Organization of the Federation. 

 The Society voted its formal approval of the establishment of the 

 Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, com- 

 prising the American Physiological Society, American Society of 

 Biological Chemists and the American Society for Pharmacology 

 and Experimental Therapeutics. The Society also voted in favor 

 of admitting to the Federation the newly organized American So- 

 ciety for Experimental Pathology. 



New members: F. C. Cook, Bur. of Chem., U. S. Dep't of 

 Agric. ; W. H. Eddy, Columbia Univ. ; K. G. Falk, Harriman Re- 

 search Lab., N. Y. City; A. D. Hirschfelder, Univ. of Minn. ; E. C. 

 Kendall, St. Luke's Hosp., N. Y. City; H. B. Lewis, Univ. of Penn. ; 

 R, S. Lillie, Clark Univ. ; E. K. Marshall, Jr., Johns Hopkins Med. 

 Seh. ; G. W. Raiziss, Polyclinic Hosp., Phila. ; R. F. Rttttan, McGill 

 Univ. ; Shiro Tashiro, Univ. of Chicago ; C. J. West, Rockefeiler 

 Inst. 



Officers-elect : President — Graham Lusk; Vice-President — 

 C. L. Aisberg; Secretary — P. A. Shaffer; Treasurer — D. D. Van 

 Slyke; Additional members of the Council — J. J. Abel, A. B. Macal- 

 lum, T. B. Osborne; Nominating Committee — 5^. R. Benedict, H. 

 S. Bradley, Otto Polin, W. J. Gies, J. H. Kastle, J. B. Leathes, P. 

 A. Levene, L. B. Mendel, H. G. Wells. 



VoTE OF thanks. A unauimous vote of thanks was extended 

 by the Society to the individual members of the " Local Committee," 



