5i8 BiocJioiiical News, Notes and Comment [April-July 



of physiol., N. Y., Med. Coli, and Hosp. for Women. — Dr. Charles 

 Weisman (assis.), sanitary ehem., U. S. Public Health Service, to 

 conduct field investigations in occupational diseases and Ventilation. 

 — Mr. Christian Seifert (lab. assis.), lab. assis., dep't of med., Johns 

 Hopkins Univ. 



Resignation from the staff. Dr. Sergius Morgulis (instr.) 

 has resigned to devote all his time in this lab. to research on the 

 metabolism of fishes under the auspices of the U. S. Bur. of 

 Fisheries. 



Appointments to the staff. The following appointments have 

 been made: Dr. Edgar G. Miller, Jr. (recently instr. in physiol. 

 ehem., Med. Seh. of the Univ. of 111., Chicago, formerly assis. in 

 this lab.), associate. — Dr. Benjamin Horowitz (assis. prof. of phys- 

 iol. ehem.. Med. Seh. of Fordham Univ., formerly assis. in this lab.), 

 associate. — Dr. Max Kahn (lately ehemist in the pharmaeol. lab., 

 U. S. Bur. of Chem., formerly assoe. in this lab.), associate. Dr. 

 Kahn also oecupies the positions of director of the chemical lab. of 

 the Beth Israel Hosp., and ehief of the dep't of internal med., out- 

 patient dep't, Mt. Sinai Hosp., N. Y. City. — Dr. William W ein- 

 her ger (sometime assis. in this lab.), associate. Dr. Weinberger 

 also holds the position of adjunet attending physieian, Lebanon 

 Hosp., N. Y. City. — Mr. Arthur D. Emniett (assis. ehief, animal 

 nutr., Agric. Exp. Station, Univ. of 111.), instructor. — Hattie L. 

 Heft, assistant. — Robert Bersohn, assistant. — James Lyons, Charles 

 Bogin and Abraham K. Yonans, lab. assistants. 



Comment on the changes in the personnel of the staff. For 

 some time during the late spring and early summer the disintegra- 

 tion of the staff proeeeded to a degree and with a velocity that could 

 hardly have been greater if Unele Sam had been drawn into the 

 war and every able bodied man " called to the colors." The three 

 senior associates, Drs. Lothrop, Eddy and Mosenthal, w^hose re- 

 tirement is announeed in the foregoing Statement, v^ere appointed 

 assistants in 1908 and in length of term, and effeetiveness, of Serv- 

 ice, were a veritable " old guard " upon w^hom the efificiency of the 

 departmental work in all its phases depended in very large degree. 

 Those w^ho sueeeed them — Drs. Miller, Horowitz, Kahn and Wein- 

 berger, and Mr. Emmett — were former officers or advanced students 



