1914] Columbia University Biochemical Association 51 5 



Univ. of Bern: Prof. Leon Asher. prof. of physiol. (promo- 

 tion). 



Univ. of 111., Coli, of Med. (Chicago) : Grover Tracy, assis. in 

 physiol. ehem. 



Univ. of Mich. : Prof. A. F. Shull, junior prof. of zool. (promo- 

 tion. ) 



Univ. of Minn. : Dr. R. A. G ortner has resigned the position 

 of resident investigator in biol. ehem. at the Station for Exp. Evolu- 

 tion of the Carnegie Inst., w^hich he had held since Sep. i. 1909, to 

 accept the position of assoc. prof. of soil chemistry. Dr. Gortner 

 will be a member of the faculties of the Agric. Coli, and the Gradu- 

 ate Seh., and v^^ill have charge of the research on the nature of the 

 organic matter in soils. 



Univ. of Wis.." Dr. Wm. H. Peterson, assis. prof. of agric. ehem. 

 (promotion). Dr. Peterson is spending a leave of absence in 

 Europe, where he has devoted three months to w^ork with Prof. 

 Neuberg (Berlin). 



Vassar Coli. (Poughkeepsie, N. Y.) : Dr. Gera J. Beckwith, 

 assis. prof. of zool. (promotion). 



Wells Coli. (Aurora-on-Cayuga, N. Y.) : Ruth S. Finch (Bar- 

 nard Coli., Columbia), instr. in ehem. 



Women's Affiliated Coli, of Del. (Newark) : Dr. Winifred J. 

 Robinson (Vassar Coli.), dean. 



Summer session appointments. Prof. /. E. Kirkwood is 

 conducting the courses in botany at the summer session of the Univ. 

 of Montana (Missoula). — Prof. D. D. Whitney is assoc. in com- 

 par. zool. in the "board of instruction" for the summer session at 

 the Biol. Lab. of the Brooklyn Inst, of Arts and Sciences, at Cold 

 Spring Harbor, L. I. — Prof. L. L. Woodruff is one of the summer 

 instructors in embryology at the Marine Biol. Lab., Woods Hole, 

 Mass. 



Lectures. Prof. John Howland (Johns Hopkins Univ.) : 

 7th Rush Soc. lecture, Univ. of Penn., Mar. 11, on A consideration 

 of certain aspects of rachitis. — Dean S. W. Lambert (Columbia 

 Univ.) : addressed the Fed. of State Med. Boards of the U. S., 

 Chicago, Feb. 25, on What instruction ought medical Colleges to 

 give in pharmacology ? 



