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the dinner, at the Hotel St. Denis on December 13. The committee 

 of arrangements had been privileged to announce to the members 

 that Prof. R. H. Chittenden, the first director of the Biochemical 

 Department, would honof the association by his presence and that 

 he would make an informal after-dinner address. As the guest of 

 honor, Professor Chittenden was informally welcomed before the 

 dinner by the members of the association in the parlors of the 

 Hotel St. Denis. The association was favored, also, by the pres- 

 ence with Professor Chittenden of other distinguished guests, among 

 them Dr. James P. Atkinson, Prof. S. P. Beebe, Dr. Ralph C. Bene- 

 dict, Dr. F. J. Birchard, Dr. Martha Doan, Dr. D. W. Fetterolf, Dr. 

 Morris S. Fine, Dr. Samuel C. Harvey, Dr. Warren H. Hilditch, 

 Dr. J. Morgan Howe, Dr. Holmes C. Jackson, Dr. Walter A. 

 Jacobs, Dr. F. B. La Forge, Prof. Frederic S. Lee, Dr. P. A. 

 Levene, Dr. Jacob G. Lipman, Dr. Jacques Loeb, Prof. John Mar- 

 shall, Prof. Frank S. Meara, Dr. Francis H. McCrudden, Dr. S. 

 J. Meltzer, Dr. Victor C. Meyers, Dr. Herman Schwarz, Dr. Don- 

 ald D. Van Slyke, Prof. Francis C. Wood. The members of the 

 Association found it a great pleasure to greet informally so many 

 eminent investigators under ^uspices that were at once so happy 

 and inspiring. Drs. Winifred J. Robinson and William N. Berg 

 came from Poughkeepsie and Washington, respectively, to join their 

 fellow members on this occasion. 



As the dinner progressed and the psychical stimulations increased 

 in number and intensity with the infective manifestations of good 

 will on every side, " physiological economy in nutrition" was ruth- 

 lessly ignored — even by Professor Chittenden himself ! 



At a comparatively late hour after a prolonged period of good 

 fellowship, the President of the Association, Dr. Herman O. Mosen- 

 thal, felicitated the Association on the success which thus far had 

 characterized all its affairs and which had culminated in so splendid 

 a gathering for such an amiable purpose. The President read a 

 letter from Dean Lambert, of the Medical School, in which the 

 Dean, after congratulating the Association on its success as an 

 Organization and on its promise of a useful career, expressed his 

 regret that he could not participate in the dinner and take an active 



