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in this laboratory, and will undoubtedly maintain the high Standards 

 of instruction and research which always characterized the work of 

 their predecessors. 



Every member of the Assoc. will learn with interest that Mr. 

 Seifert has gone to Johns Hopkins Univ., and will wonder how we 

 are going to get along without our veteran lab. assis. Frankly, we 

 don't know! Chris entered the Service of the lab. a few weeks 

 after its original equipment, in the fall of 1898 — sixteen years ago — 

 and has labored hard, faithfully and with unusual efficiency ever 

 since. Messrs. Charles Bogen and Abraham K. Yonans have been 

 selected to succeed Chris, and if each fills one of his shoes we shall 

 be well satisfied. The regret we feel that Chris's long service here 

 has been broken by his resignation is minimized to some degree by 

 the realization that his new environment and position will afford 

 him the opportunities and the comforts he richly deserves. He 

 leaves us with our cordial good wishes attending him and his f amily. 



Associations and societies. Officers-elect. H. B. Clough : 

 treas., N. Y. Assoc. of Biol. Teachers. 



F. W. Hartwell: cor. sec, N. Y. Assoc. of Biol. Teachers. 



P. W. Punnett : sec, Columbia Chapter of Phi Lambda Upsilon. 



Members-elect. Edgar Altenburg: Columbia chapter of 

 Sigma Xi. 



A. W. Buswell : Columbia chapter of Sigma Xi. 



Gustav Egloff : Columbia chapters of Sigma Xi and Phi Lambda 

 Upsilon. 



H. B. Goodrich : Columbia chapter of Sigma Xi. 



F. G. Goodridge: Harvey Society. 



Paul E. Howe : Harvey Society. 



Arthur Knudson : Columbia chapter of Phi Lambda Upsilon. 



H. J. Muller: Columbia chapter of Sigma XL 



A. P. Tanberg: Columbia chapter of Phi Lambda Upsilon. 



P. W. Punnett : Columbia chapter of Sigma Xi. 



Awards of higher degrees at Columbia to students of biolog. 

 ehem. DocTORS of philosophy. Of the twenty recipients of the 

 degree of Ph.D. under the Fac. of Pure Science, at Columbia's last 

 commencement, ten had taken "majors or minors," or both (or 

 "extra" courses) in the Biochem. Dep't. The names of the can- 



