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Dr. George A. Geiger is now chemist to the American Viscose 

 Co., Marcus Hook, Pa. 



Dr. A. J. Goldfarb has been made an instructor in natural his- 

 tory at the College of the City of New York. 



Dr. A. H. Kropff is now president of the Hoffman and Kropff 

 Chemical Co. 



Mr. Darwin O. Lyon is a University Fellow in Psychology at 

 Columbia. 



Dr. Clarence E. May has been elected vice-president of the 

 Indiana chapter of Sigma Xi. 



Dr. A. McD. McAfee is chief chemist of the Texas Oil Com- 

 pany at Bayonne, N. J. 



Dr. B. S. Oppenheimer is Alumni Association Fellow in Pathol- 

 ogy at Columbia Medical School. 



Dr. Edwards A. Park has been appointed pathologist to the New 

 York Foundling Hospital. 



Mr. Fred J. Seaver has been appointed curator of fungi at the 

 New York Botanical Garden. 



Dr. Matthew Steel has been promoted to an assistant professor- 

 ship of physiological chemistry at the University of Missouri. 



Miscellaneous. The proceedings of the second annual meeting 

 and the first annual dinner of the Biochemical Association are pub- 

 lished on pages 332-339. 



Abstracts of the Symposium on edema at the June meeting of the 

 Biochemical Association are given on pages 270-324. 



The next regulär meeting of the Biochemical Association will be 

 held about the middle of March. Prof. Wilder D. Bancroft has 

 accepted an invitation to address the Association on " The study of 

 environment." 



Dr. Gertrude S. Burlingham spent the summer near West 

 Wardsboro, Vermont, continuing her study of the genus Russula 

 for the North American Flora. 



Cerium Oxalate is on the list of articles dropped from the last 

 edition of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. The recent study of the effects 



