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assis. prof. of natural science, Coli, of the City of N. Y. (promo- 

 tion). — Dr. Isidor Greenwald (Montefiore Home Lab.), assistant, 

 Harriman Research Lab., Roosevelt Hosp. (N. Y.). 



Officers-elect of societies. Dr. Carl L. Aisher g, vice-pres't, 

 Sect. C (chemistry), Amer. Assoc. for the Adv. of Science. — Prof. 

 Isabel Bevier, member of the Board of Trustees of the Ellen Rich- 

 ards Home Economics Fund for Research and Publication. — Dr. 

 A. Richard Bliss, historian and editor, Kappa Psi Med. Fraternity 

 (re-elected). — Helen Gavin, cor. sec'y, N. Y. Assoc. of Biology 

 Teachers. — Prof. Hugo Kronecker, member of the Gen'l Com- 

 mit. of the Ninth Intern. Congr. of Physiology, convened in Gronin- 

 gen last September. — Dr. Raymond C. Oshurn, vice-pres't and 

 chairman of the sect. of Biology, N. Y. Acad. of Sciences. — Dr. 

 William A. Taltavall, treas., San Bernardino Co. (Cal.) Med. Soc'y. 



Members-elect of societies. Ross A. G ortner, Amer. Soc. of 

 Naturalists. — Harold M. Hays, Amer. Coli, of Surgeons (fellow). 

 — Edward C. Kendall, Amer. Soc. of Biol. Chemists. — Wilbur 

 Ward, Amer. Coli, of Surgeons (fellow). 



Lectures. Dr. Jacques Loeb conducted the thirty fourth an- 

 nual course, at Richmond Coli, Va., under the James Thomas lec- 

 ture endowment, Dec. ii and 12. The first lecture was on Artificial 

 parthenogenesis ; the second, on Determinism in the animal world. 

 At the regulär fall meeting of the Chicago chapter of the Soc'y of 

 the Sigma Xi, Dec. i, Dr. Loeb spoke on Recent experiments in 

 artificial parthenogenesis. 



Under the auspices of the local chapters of the Soc'y of the 

 Sigma Xi, Prof. Lafayette B. Mendel gave a " populär " lecture on 

 Food fads, also a more technical lecture on View-points in the study 

 of growth, at the Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence (Dec. i and 2), at the 

 Univ. of Missouri, Columbia (Dec. 3 and 4), and at Washington 

 Univ., St. Louis (Dec. 5 and 6). He was entertained at each of 

 these places by the local chapters of Sigma Xi or by members of the 

 faculties of the institutions, and gave additional informal talks on 

 educational or scientific topics at each of the universities. 



Miscellaneous items. The first edition of A laboratory manual 

 of qualitative chemical analysis for students of medicine, dentistry 



