140 Nezvs, Notes and Commcnt [Sept. 



of the Council, William J. Gies, A. S. Loevenhart, and P. A. 

 Shaffer. 



Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Thera- 

 PEUTics : President, John J. Abel ; Secrctary, Reid Hunt ; Treasurer, 

 A. S. Loevenhart; Additional members of the Council, S. J. Melt- 

 zer, C. W. Edmunds and Geo. B. Wallace. 



American Physiological Society: President, S. J. Meltzer; 

 Secretary, A. J. Carlson; Treasurer, W. B. Cannon; Additional 

 members of the Council, Joseph Erlanger and Frederic S. Lee. 



Section of Physiological Chemistry and Pharmacology 

 IN the Eighth International Congress of Applied Chemis- 

 try (September, 1912).: Executive Committee — President, John 

 J. Abel; Vice President, William J. Gies; Secretary, John A. 

 Mandel; Additional members of the Executive Committee, Reid 

 Hunt and Thomas B. Osborne. 



Journalistic. The first number of Volume IX (March issue) 

 of the Journal of Biological Chemistry bears the follov^ing in- 

 scription on the cover : 



THE JOURNAL 



OF 



BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 



FOUNDED BY CHRISTIAN A. HerTER 

 EdITED BY 



H. D. Darin, New York City, Lafayette B. Mendel, New Haven, Conn., 

 E. K. DuNHAM, New York City, A. N. Richards, Philadelphia, Pa., 



WITH the COLLABORATION OF 



(The names of twenty-seven biological chemists are appended to the above.) 



Comparing the lists of names of the collaborators of the Journal 

 of Biological Chemistry, as printed on the cover s of the last issue 

 of Vol. VIII and the first number of Vol. IX, we note the following 

 additions : L. J. Henderson, J. B. Leathes, John A. Mandel, P. A, 

 Shaffer and F. P. Underhill. 



In the August issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, ap- 

 pears an announcement of the Christian A. Herter Memorial Fund. 

 This fund, now amounting to $40,000 has been entrusted to the 

 care of the directors of the Journal of Biological Chemistry under 



