1914] Columbia University Biochemical Association 511 



irregulär sailing of the ships, the consumption of paper by the news- 

 papers has increased enormously because of the demand for extra 

 editions. The Journal has received practically no German, Austrian 

 or Russian publications, and but few French or Belgian periodicals, 

 since the war began. The "Berlin letter " — mailed f rom Charlotten- 

 burg, July 31 — arrived in Chicago Aug. 25. No Paris and Vienna 

 letters have been received of dates subsequent to the onset of hos- 

 tiHties. (Editorial : Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, 1914, Ixiii, p. 789.) 



Kolloid- Zeit Schrift. The following notice was attached to the 

 Cover of the Sept. issue of the Journal edited by Dr. Wolfgang Ost- 

 wald : Wegen militärischer Einberufung von Herausgeber und Ver- 

 leger werden die Hefte der "Kolloid-Zeitschrift" in der nächsten 

 Zeit vermutlich in etwas grösseren Abständen erscheinen. 



Univ. Buildings as English hospitals. The new buildings 

 of the Univ. of Birmingham, at Edgbaston, have been taken over by 

 the war office, and now form the first southern general hospital. 

 Structural alterations have been effected with a view of making the 

 hosp. as efficient as possible. 



Death. Prof. B. Alfred Bertheim, member of the Georg 

 Speyer Haus, in Frankfort a M., being drawn to join his regiment, 

 lost his life on August 17 at Berlin, in consequence of an accident, 

 at the age of 35 years. Besides work on alkyl combinations of 

 thallium and on hydrates of molybdic acid, he has published numer- 

 ous articles, some of them with Prof. Paul Ehrlich and Dr. Benda, 

 on nitro- and amino-phenyl arsenic acid and their derivatives, and 

 on /»-amino-phenyl arsenic oxide, di-amino arsenobenzenes, and their 

 derivatives. Professor Ehrlich writes, in the Frankfurter Zeitung, 

 that to Bertheim belongs the distinction of having accomplished the 

 synthesis of salvarsan. 



V. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BIOCHEMICAL ASSOCIATION 



I. General notes 



Deceased. Hugo Kronecker, for many years (and at the time 

 of his death) professor of physiology at the University of Bern and 

 director of the Physiological Institute (Hallerianum), died June 6, 

 aged 75 years. (See pages 345 and 523.) 



