BIOCHEMICAL NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENT^ 



I. GENERAL 



Necrology. Dr. F. Beute, director for many years of the con- 

 trol Station for fertilizers, feeding stuffs, foods and seeds at Ebstorf, 

 Prussia. 



Dr. Antoine Blatin, former professor of physiology at the Ecole 

 de medicine de Clermont. 



Mr. Charles Emil Dohme, formerly vice-president of the firm 

 of Sharp & Dohme, sometime president of the American Pharma- 

 ceutical Society and president of the Maryland College of Pharmacy. 



Dr. Max Jaffe, professor of pharmacology at the University of 

 Königsberg. 



Dr. Arthur H. Koelker, biological chemist in the research labora- 

 tory of the Roosevelt Hospital. 



Prof. Oskar Kellner, director of the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station at Möckern. 



Surgeon General Walter Wyman, of the U. S. Public Health 

 and Marine Hospital Service. 



Honors. Prof. Svante Arrhenius, of Stockholm, has been 

 elected an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. 



The Royal Society has awarded a Royal medal to Dr. W. M. 

 Bayliss, F.R.S., for his distinguished achievements in physiological 

 research. 



The Nobel prizes for 191 1 in the sciences have been awarded 

 to Mme. Marie Curie, of the University of Paris, in chemistry; to 

 Prof. Wilhelm Wien, of the University of Würzburg, in physics, 



^ It is intended to make the sections of " biochemical news, notes and 

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

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

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