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University on October 4, 5, and 6, by Prof. Albrecht Kossei, of the 

 University of Heidelberg, who was awarded the Nobel prize last 

 year for his discoveries in biological chemistry. The subject of the 

 lectures was " Protein metabolism." 



Five of the first six Harvey lectures of the " Seventh Course " 

 at the New York Academy of Medicine related to matters of bio- 

 chemical interest. The names of the lecturers, with the subjects 

 and dates of the lectures, are appended : 



October 7. Local specific therapy of infections. Dr. Simon 

 Flexner. 



October 14. Ueber den chemischen Bau der Zelle. Prof. Al- 

 brecht Kossei. 



October 28. Narcosis. Prof. Max Verworn. 



November 25. lUuminating gas and the public health. Prof. 

 W. T. Sedgwick. 



December 16. A consideration of the nature of hunger. Prof. 

 Walter B. Cannon. 



Dr. Paul Lindner, of the Institute for Fermentation Industries 

 at Berlin, gave an illustrated lecture on " New views on f ermenta- 

 tion and the fermentation organisms " at the College of the City of 

 New York on Tuesday, October 24, and at Columbia University on 

 Wednesday, October 25. 



" The röle of the salts in the preservation of life " was the sub- 

 ject of the Wesley M. Carpenter lecture, delivered at the New York 

 Academy of Medicine on October 19, by Dr. Jacques Loeb, of the 

 Rockefeiler Institute for Medical Research. 



At the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, held in 

 the Public Library, New York City, on November 21 and 22, bio- 

 chemical papers were presented by Dr. Jacques Loeb on " Oxida- 

 tions in the cell," and by Dr. T. B. Osborne and Prof. Lafayette B. 

 Mendel, on " The röle of different proteins in nutrition and growth." 



The Silliman lectures for 191 1, ten in number, were devoted to 

 the subject of " Irritability " and were given daily at Yale Univer- 

 sity, beginning on October 9, by Prof. Max Verworn, of the Univer- 

 sity of Bonn. Professor Verworn lectured at Columbia University 

 on October 26, on "Life and Death." 



