DOCTORATES IN BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 

 Conferred by American Universities, ig 13-'! 4 



The names of recent recipients of the Ph.D. degree in biochem- 

 ical science, with the subjects of the dissertations, are arranged 

 below in university groups : 



Brown University. — George Henry Robinson: Isolation, iden- 

 tiiication and serum reactions of typhoid and paratyphoid bacilh. 



Clark University. — Lillian Rosanoff: Theory of the catalysis 

 of sugar inversion by acids. 



Columbia University. — John Seaman Bat es: Chemical utiliza- 

 tion of southern-pine waste. — Sidney Born: The chemical Constitu- 

 tion of invertase. — Louis Otto Kunkel: Physical and chemical fac- 

 tors influencing toxicity of inorganic salts to Monilia sitophila Mont. 

 Sacc. — Marguerite Thuron Lee: A study of modifications of the 

 biuret test. — Victor Emaniiel Levine: Biochemical studies of selen- 

 ium. — Charles Packard: The effect of radium on the development of 

 Nereis. — Ernest Lyman Scott: The content of sugar in blood under 

 common laboratory conditions. 



Comell University. — Jean Broadhurst: A study of the habitats 

 and the morphological and physiological characters of Streptococci. 

 '—Jehiel Davidson: A comparative study of the effect of Cumarin 

 and Vanillin on wheat grown in soil, sand and water cultures. — 

 Frank Elmare Rice: Studies on the action of erepsin. — Clarence 

 McKinlay Sherwood: A study of Stokes' neutral red reaction as 

 applied to the sanitary examination of water. 



Harvard University. — William T. Bovic: The action of ultra- 

 violet light on protoplasm. — Francis Bullard Kingsbury: I. A con- 

 tribution to the röle of bile in fat absorption. IL The determina- 

 tion of benzoic acid in the urines of the rabbit and the dog. — James 

 Luden Morris: Protein metabolism of the rat, with special reference 

 to tumor Problems. — James Batcheller Sumner: The formation of 

 Urea in the animal body. 



Indiana University. — Clarence Edmunds Edmondson: The 

 effects of thyroid and thymus extract upon the growth and repro- 

 duction in Paramecium caudatum. 



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