ISO Neivs, Notes and Commcnt [Sept. 



pired; Miss Constance Hart, laboratory assistant (Teachers Col- 

 lege, Summer session), nevv position; Miss Blanche Harris, labora- 

 tory assistant (Teachers College), new position; Mr. Milton V. 

 Miller, A.B., laboratory assistant in organic chemistry (College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons), vice Levering Tyson, term expired. 



Doctors of Philosophy. Of the nineteen candidates for the 

 degree of Ph.D., under the Faculty of Pure Science at Columbia 

 University last June, ten had taken majors or minors, or both, in 

 the department of biological chemistry. The names of the candi- 

 dates and their major and minor subjects are given below: 



Name of Candidate Major Minor Minor 



G. D. Beal organic chemistry chemistry biological chemistry 



G. A. Geiger organic chemistry chemistry biological chemistry 



I. Greenwald biological chemistry biological chemistry physiology 



R. F. Hare biological chemistry biological chemistry chemistry 



E. N. Harvey zoology physiology biological chemistry 

 M. Heidelberger organic chemistry chemistry biological chemistry 

 A. McD. McAfee physical chemistry organic chemistry biological chemistry 



F. W. Schwartz physical chemistry organic chemistry biological chemistry 

 A. F. Shull zoology biological chemistry zoology 



L. E. Wise organic chemistry chemistry biological chemistry 



Summer Session. Courses. During the recent summer session, 

 courses were given in physiological chemistry at the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons by Prof. Gies and Mr. Clayton S. Smith, 

 and at Teachers College by Prof. Gies and Misses Emily C. Seaman 

 and Constance Hart. 



Investigators. Prof. Gies kept the biochemical laboratory at the 

 medical school open daily throughout the past summer. The 

 workers named below conducted investigations during all or part 

 of the vacation : 



David Alperin, Jacob Bronfenbrenner, Nellis B. Foster, Simon S. 

 Friedman, William J. Gies, Samuel Gitlow, Mark J. Gottlieb, Isidor 

 Greenwald, Morris Joseph, Max Kahn, David J. Kaliski, John L. 

 Kantor, H. M. Kraus, Alfred P. Lothrop, Chester A. Mathewson, 

 Herman O. Mosenthal, Reuben Ottenberg, Oscar M. Schloss, Emily 

 C. Seaman, Clayton S. Smith, William Weinberger, Julius W. 

 Weinstein, Charles Weisman, William H. Welker, Harry Wessler. 



