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The Bulletin. The widespread and hearty interest in the Asso- 

 ciation and in the Bulletin has been a matter of deep personal and 

 professional gratification to Prof. Gies and all of us now associated 

 with him in the biochemical department. 



Personalia. Prof. Gies officially represented Columbia Uni- 

 versity at the inauguration of his Yale (Ph.D.) classmate, Dr. 

 William A. Granville, as President of Gettysburg College. Prof. 

 Gies is an alumnus, and also one of the elected representatives of 

 the alumni in the Board of Trustees, of that College and in the 

 latter capacity took an active part in the election of Dr. Granville, 

 who, prior to his acceptance of the Gettysburg presidency, was an 

 Instructor in Mathematics in the Sheffield Scientific School. 



Prof. Gies has been elected a Scientific Director, and a member 

 of the Board of Managers, of the New York Botanical Garden, to 

 succeed Prof. Charles F. Chandler retired. Prof. Gies has been 

 selected by the Board of Managers to represent the Botanical 

 Garden at the Eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry. 

 He was recently elected an Associate Member of the American 

 Medical Association. 



Prof. Gies and Drs. Eddy and Lothrop were recently elected 

 to membership in Phi Lambda Upsilon. 



Dr. Herman O. Mosenthal and Dr. Jacob Rosenbloom have 

 been elected to membership in the Society for Experimental Biology 

 and Medicine. 



Dr. Isidor Greenwald has been appointed pathological chemist 

 in the Laboratory of the Montefiore Home. 



Dr. Clark has been elected an Associate Editor of the Bulletin 

 of the Torrey Botanical Chib. 



The Journal of the Allicd Dental Societies for December, which 

 appeared in January, contains (in the Proceedings of the New 



^ Although it will be a policy of the Bulletin to keep past workers in the 

 Columbia biochemical laboratories intimately acquainted with local affairs, it is 

 also planned to give similar attention, if possible, to all other biochemical 

 laboratories. This plan, like many others connected with the Bulletin, will be 

 developed in the near future, after more immediate problems have been solved. 



