1914] Colwnhia University Biochemical Association 329 



recommendations of the committee may be overruled by the Chief 

 of the Bureau. 



SiXTH SESSION OF THE Graduate Sch. OF Agric. The sixth 

 Session of the Grad. Sch. of Agric. will be held at the Coli, of Agric. 

 of the Univ. of Missouri, beginning June 29, 1914, and continuing 

 four weeks. All correspondence relating to membership in this 

 school should be addressed to A. J. Meyer, Registrar, Coli, of 

 Agric, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. 



Sanitary committee for Chicago. Profs. Julius Stieglitz 

 (Univ. of Chicago), John H. Long (Northwestern Univ.), and 

 Harry McCormack (Armour Inst, of Tech.), are members of a 

 commit. appointed by the Chicago sect. of the Amer. Chem. Soc'y to 

 cooperate, if desired, with the mayor of Chicago in the Solution of 

 the city's waste problem. 



ScHOOL FOR THE STUDY OF suGAR. The Natal Sugar Growers' 

 Assoc. has recently established, in connection with the Durban Tech. 

 Inst., a school for the study of sugar. Their support involves the 

 establishment of lectureships in chemistry, bacteriology and ento- 

 mology, and the funding of researches on the manufacture and 

 growing of cane sugar. 



Priestly's BALANCE. The descendants of Priestly, the dis- 

 coverer of oxygen, have presented to the Univ. of Penn, the chem- 

 ical balance which was used by him in his experiments. 



SiLLiMAN lecturer. Dr. /. 6". Haidane, reader in physiology 

 at Oxford Univ., has been chosen Silliman lecturer at Yale Univ. 



Bernard centenary. The centenary of the birth of Claude 

 Bernard was celebrated at the College de France on December 30. 



II. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BIOCHEMICAL ASSOCIATION 



i. General notes 



Marriage. On Dec. 15, Miss Rahil Wattman and Dr. Max 

 Kahn. 



Appointments. Dr. Sidney Born, chief chemist of the Lemp 

 Brewing Co., St. Louis. — Dr. George A. Geiger, assis. chemist, 

 Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Dep't of Agric. — Dr. A. J. Goldfarh, 



