1914] Columbia University Biochemical Association $17 



it shall be to improve the eating houses and restaurants in the vicin- 

 ity of the Univ. Two courses in social Hygiene have been arranged, 

 one for the freshman year, which shall cover all the facts that a 

 young man should know in relation to personal and social hygiene, 

 and one for the senior year which shall have for its object the pres- 

 entation o£ facts that will enable the men to appreciate their obli- 

 gations as men to society and the home. ( Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, 

 19 14, Ixii, p. 48.) 



Prof. L. B. Mendel represented Yale at the preliminary Con- 

 ference in Baltimore, last Nov., which initiated a movement for the 

 Organization of a Nat'l Assoc. of Univ. Professors. 



Dr. Jacob Rosenbloom is now giving his entire attention to 

 diseases of metabolism, devoting much of his time to research in the 

 West Penn. Hosp., the remainder to medical practice, in Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa. 



Dr. E. A. Spitzka has resigned the prof. of anatomy at Jeffer- 

 son Med. Coli. He plans to take up the practice, in N. Y. City, of 

 his father, Dr. C. E. Spitzka, who died last January. 



Besides Dr. Jacques Loeb (assoc. ed.), the collaborators for the 

 new Intern. Zeit. f. physik.-chem. Biologie include the following 

 members of the Biochem. Assoc. : Leon Asher, Filippo Bottazzi, E. 

 N. Harvey, A. B. Macallum, Sven Hedin and S. P. L. Sörensen. 



2. Proceedings of the Association 



Abstracts of the papers comprising the scientific proceedings of 

 the February and April meetings of the Assoc, are given on 

 pages 454-471. The proceedings of the June meeting will be pub- 

 lished in the next number of the Biochem. Bull. 



3. Columbia Biochemical Department 



Appointments from the staff. Dr. Walter H. Eddy (assoc), 

 acting principal, N. Y. High Seh. of Commerce (Jan. -June) ; prin- 

 cipal of the High School of Commerce Annex (120 W. 46th St., 

 N. Y. City). — Dr. Alfred P. Lothrop (assoc.) assis. prof. of biol. 

 ehem., Queen's Univ., Kingston, Ont. — Dr. Herman O. Mosenthal 

 (assoc), assis. prof. of med., Johns Hopkins Univ. — Mr. Arthur 

 Knudson (assis.), adjunct prof. of physiol. ehem. and exper. phar- 

 macol, Albany Med. Coli. — Miss Ethel W. Wickwire (assis.), prof. 



