512 Biochemical News, Notes and Comment [April-July 



Arthur Wharton Swann, instructor in clinical medicine and in 

 clinical pathology; assistant visiting physician to the Presbyterian 

 Hospital, and chief of the medical clinic of the Presbyterian Dispen- 

 sary; died in the "Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, New 

 York City, May 28, f rom septicemia, following an Operation on the 

 throat a week before, aged 33 years. Dr. Swann was engaged for 

 some time in a study, in the Columbia Biochem. Lab., of possible re- 

 lations between rheumatism and urinary lactic acid. 



Married. April 23 : Miss Eleanor Riehm, of Newark, N. J., 

 and Dr. Clayton S. Smith. — June 18: Miss Ruth Fulton and Prof. 

 Stanley R. Benedict. 



Awards of degrees. Honorary degrees. Prof. A. R. Bliss: 

 M. D., Birmingham Med. Coli. (Grad. Seh. of Med., Univ. of Ala.). 

 — Prof. John Howland: M.A., Yale Univ. 



Degrees in course. Prof. Jean Broadhurst : Ph.D., Cornell 

 Univ. (See page 472). — Dr. Nathan Rosenthal: A.M., Central High 

 Seh., Phila. Additional awards of degrees are indicated on pages 

 519 and 521. 



Associations and societies. Officers elect. Dr. C. L. Ais- 

 berg: member of the Council on pharm, and ehem., Amer. Med. 

 Assoc. ; member of the advis. board, Amer. Pure Food League. 



Dr. C. Stuart Gager: member of the Council of sect. G, Amer. 

 Assoc. for the Adv. of Science. 



Prof. P. B. Hawk: member of the exec. commit. and Dr. /. 5. 

 Hepburn of the program commit., Phila. Sect. of the Amer. Chem. 

 Soc. 



Prof. John Howland: member of the Council on pharm, and 

 ehem., Amer. Med. Assoc. 



Prof. Wm. T. Home: sec.-treas., Western Amer. Phytopathol. 

 Soc, recently organized at Davis, Cal. 



Dr. D. R. Lucas: member of the advis. board, Amer. Pure Food 

 League. 



Dr. C. A. Mathewson, pres., N. Y. Assoc. of Biol. Teachers. 



Prof. R. C. Osburn: vice-pres., N. Y. Acad. of Sciences; sec'y, 

 Amer. Fisheries Soc. 



Dr. A. M. Pappenheimer: pres., N. Y. Pathol. Soc. 



