BIOCHEMICAL NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENT 



EDITORIAL SUB-COMMITTEE: 



Alfred P. Lothrop, 

 William J. Gies, Joseph S. Hepburn, Benjamin Horowitz, Paul E. Howe. 



Contents. — I General: Necrology, 489; in memoriam, 489; honorary de- 

 grees, 490; resignations and appointments, 490; prizes and medals, 493; associa- 

 tions and societies, 494; lectures, 496; buildings, funds and endowments, 497; 

 miscellaneous general items, 498. II. Journals, 501. III. Institutes, 505. IV, 

 War Notes, 507. V. Columbia Univ. Biochem. Assoc: (i) General notes, 511; 

 (2) proceedings, 517; (3) Columbia Biochem. Dep't, 517. 



I. GENERAL. 



Necrology. — Robert K. Duncan, direc. of the Mellon Inst, for 

 Indust. Research, Univ. of Pittsburgh. — Herman Frosch, ior twenty 

 years chief chemist of the Standard Oil Co. — Joseph R. Green, well 

 known for his important researches in plant physiol., fellow and 

 lecturer, Downing Coli., Cambridge; formerly prof. to the Pharma- 

 ceut. Soc. of Gr. Britain. — 5". M. Jörgensen, pres. of the board of 

 directors of the Carlsberg Lab., Copenhagen; successor of Prof. 

 Barf oed, Univ. of Copenhagen. — Frits Jummershach, prof. of agri- 

 cult., Munich. — Hugo Kronecker, prof. of physiol., Univ. of Bern. 

 — Adolph Liehen, emer. prof. of general and pharmaceut. ehem., 

 ►Univ. of Vienna. — Jesse J. Myers, assis. prof. of physiol. and zool.. 

 Mich. Agric. Coli. ; at the time of his death also a grad. Student in 

 physiol. ehem., Yale Univ. — Karl A. Neufeld, assis. direc. of the 

 food lab., Univ. of Würzburg. — Francis H. Stör er, from 1865 to 

 1870 prof. of ehem., Mass. Inst, of Tech., and, from 1870 to his re- 

 tirement as emer. prof. in 1907, prof. of agric. ehem., Harvard 

 Univ. — L. V. Udränsky, prof. of physiol ehem., Budapest. — Philippe 

 Van Tieghem, one of the first of Pasteur's collaborators. 



In memoriam. Lister. An oration on Lord Lister was de- 

 livered by Sir H. C. Cameron, at the Univ. of Glasgow, on com- 

 memoration day, June 23. — The committ. of the Lister Memor. 



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