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and pharmacy, by Dr. A. R. Bliss, prof. o£ chemistry and pharmacy, 

 and director of the chemical and pharmaceutical laboratories, in the 

 Birmingham Med. Coli, and Graduate Seh. of Med., Univ. of Ala., 

 has just left the press. 



Miss Jean Broadhurst and Dr. Ernest D. Clark have been re- 

 elected assoc. editors of Torreya. 



The following Statement is the concluding sentence in the pref- 

 ace of Prof. W. A. Bastedo's Materia medica: pharmacology : 

 therapeutics : prescription writing; for students and practitioners 

 (191 3) : "For the use of a number of tracings I owe my deepest 

 thanks to my colleague, Dr. Charles C. Lieb, whose care about the 

 details of an experiment and accuracy in recording results I believe 

 to be unsurpassed." 



2. Proceedings of the Association 



Third annual dinner. The third annual dinner of the Biochem- 

 ical Association was held at the Hotel Marseilles, Broadway at 

 lOßrd Street, on Friday evening, November 21, 191 3. About one 

 hundred and forty members and their guests were present and en- 

 joyed the informal reception which preceded the dinner. The din- 

 ners of the Association have been increasingly more enjoyable, and 

 they occupy a very important place in the activities of the Associa- 

 tion. One of the factors which added greatly to the pleasure of the 

 occasion was the opportunity afforded, especially to the younger 

 members, of miceting so many men who have made notable contri- 

 butions to biological chemistry and to other fields of research closely 

 related to it. 



Prof. Lafayette B. Mendel of Yale University was the guest 

 of honor. The president, Prof. Stanley R. Benedict of the Cornell 

 University Medical School, was the toastmaster. Prof. Charles 

 Baskerville, Prof. M. A. Bigelow, Dr. C. B. Davenport, Dr. Charles 

 A. Doremus, Dr. P. A. Levene, Dr. Samuel J. Meltzer and Prof. 

 Henry C. Sherman addressed the Association informally. Pro- 

 fessor Mendel discussed some of the results of his recent investiga- 

 tions on " Growth " ; the address is published in this number of the 

 Bulletin at page 156. 



Dr. Walter H. Eddy presented Professor Mendel's name for 



