1914] General 327 



Phi Lambda Upsilon lecture, Columbia University. De- 

 cember 18, 1913 : The mechanism of biological utilization of sugars, 

 Dr. P. A. Levene, Rocke feller Inst. 



MiscELLANEOUS iTEMs. On January 8 Prof. Theobald Smith 

 delivered a lecture on Prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines before 

 the N. Y. State Veterinary Coli., at Cornell Univ. — Dr. Adolph 

 Schmidt, prof . of internal medicine in the Univ. of Halle, and editor 

 of the Zent. für innere Med., was the guest of the Cincinnati Acad. 

 of Med., Nov. 3, and delivered an address on internal diseases. 



RusH LECTURES. The Rush Society for the correlation and 

 Support of medical and biological lectures in Philadelphia announces 

 the following lectures among others, which will be given at the Coli, 

 of Physicians, or at the Medical Laboratories of the Univ. of Penn. 

 Sixth Rush Society Lecture, January 2y: Prof. Sven G. Hedin, 

 Univ. of Upsala, Colloidal reactions and their relations to biology. 

 — Weir Mitchell Lecture, February 25 : Harvey Cushing, Harvard 

 Univ., Clinical types of dyspituitarism. — Seventh Rush Society Lec- 

 ture, March 11 : John Howland, Johns Hopkins Hosp., A consid- 

 eration of certain aspects of rachitis. (Also the annual address be- 

 fore the Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary Med. Soc'y.) — Eighth 

 Rush Society Lecture, April i : Alexis Carrel, Rocke feller Inst., 

 Permanent active life of tissues outside of the organism. (Also the 

 annual address before the Undergraduate Med. Soc'y of the Univ. 

 of Penn.) 



Leyden LECTURE. Prof. Emil Abderhalden delivered the Ley- 

 den lecture to the Soc'y of Internal Med., Berlin, on Serological 

 diagnosis of organic changes. 



Proceedings, and officers-elect, of societies, associations, etc. 



Amer. Assoc. for the Adv. of Science. See Science, 1914, 

 xxxix, p. 39. Pres't: Charles W. Eliot; Vice-pres'ts : Section C 

 (Chemistry), Carl L. Aisberg; Section F (Zoology), Frank R. 

 Lillie; Section K (Physiol. and Exp. Med.), Richard M. Pearce. 



MiscELLANEOUS ITEMS. Procccdings of the annual meetings 

 of the societies named below are published, at the pages indicated, in 

 this number of the Biochem. Bull. : Amer. Physiol. Soc. (p. 282) ; 

 Amer. Soc. of Biol. Chemists (p. 285) ; Amer. Soc. for Pharmacol. 



