BIOCHEMICAL NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENT* 



I. GENERAL 

 Necrology. With deep regret we record the deaths of the 

 colleagues named below : 



Dr. K. Polstorff, associate professor of pharmacological chem- 

 istry at Göttingen. 



Professor J. H. van't Hoff, of the University of Berlin, eminent 

 for his contributions to physical chemistry. 



Professor L. P. Kinnicutt, director of the department of chemis- 

 try in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, well-known for his im- 

 portant contributions to sanitary chemistry and sewage disposal. 



Dr. Edward B. Voorhees, professor of agricuhure at Rutgers 

 College and director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, known for his important contributions to agricultural chem- 

 istry and agricultural education. 



An appreciation of Mrs. Ellen H. Richards, deceased, is pub- 

 lished on the opening pages of this issue of the Bulletin. 



The resolutions on page 133, regarding the death of Dr. C. A. 

 Herter, have not hitherto been published. 



Officers-elect of biological societies. We give below the 

 names of ofhcers elected at the last annual meetings of leading 

 biological societies : 



Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine: 

 President, Thomas H. Morgan; Vice President, Phoebus A. Le- 

 vene; Secretary, George B. Wallace; Treasurer, Graham Lusk. 



American Society of Biological Chemists : President, 

 Lafayette B. Mendel; Vice President, A. B. Macallum; Secretary, 

 Alfred N. Richards; Treasurer, Walter Jones; Additional members 



* It is intended to make the sections of " biochemical neivs, notes and 

 comment " of the Bulletin a series of items of historic value and personal 

 interest to biological chemists. The notes comprising the section in this issue 

 have been compiled at random, but succeeding numbers of the Bulletin will 

 present more systematic compilations of this character. The Cooperation of all 

 our colleagues in the execution of this plan is cordially invited. 



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