BIOCHEMICAL NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENT 



EDITORIAL SUB-CÖmMITTEE: 



Alfred P. Lothrop, 

 Walter H. Eddy, Paul E. Howe, Arthur Knudson. 



Contents. — I. General: Necrology, 323; in memoriam, 323; honors, 324; 

 appointments, 327; grants, 328; research funds, 325; lectures, 326; proceedings 

 and officers-elect, of societies, associations, etc., 326; miscellaneous items, 326. 

 IL Columbia Univ. Biochem. Assoc: (i) General notes, 329; (2) proceedings, 

 2,2'^; (3) Columbia Biochem. Dep't, 335. 



I. GENERAL 



Necrology. W. Popplewell Bloxam, formerly prof. of chem- 

 istry in Presidency Coli., Madras, author of papers on the produc- 

 tion and chemistry of indigo. — Frederick C. Busch, for some years 

 prof. of physiology at the Univ. of Buffalo, recently engaged in 

 Cancer research. — Edwin Klehs, pathologist and bacteriologist, for 

 a year prof. of pathology in Rush Med. Coli., the first to describe 

 Bacillus diphtheriae, " the last of the great pioneers of the bacterial 

 theory of infection, a pupil of Virchow's, a contemporary of Pasteur 

 and the inspirer of Koch." — ^9. Weir Mitchell, distinguished as a 

 man of science, as a man of letters and as a physician. — Louis Wick- 

 ham, founder of the Laboratoire biologique du radium, widely 

 known for his researches on the value of radium in the treatment of 

 Cancer and other diseases of the skin. 



In memoriam. The tablet unveiled at King's College by Lord 

 Rayleigh, on Jan. 14, to the memory of Lord Lister bears the fol- 

 lowing inscription : In affectionate and respectf ul memory of Joseph 

 Baron Lister, F.R.S., O.M., professor of clinical surgery in King's 

 College from 187 7- 1892, and for many years Consulting surgeon 

 to the King's College Hospital, member of the Council and life 

 governor of the College, this tablet is erected. His name will be 

 handed down to posterity as the founder of antiseptic surgery, one 

 of the greatest discoveries in history, and a source of inestimable 

 benefit to mankind. 



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