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Prof. Raymond C. Osburn delivered, at Trinity College on De- 

 cember 15, a lecture on "Fishes." 



Miss Winifred J. Robinson, of Vassar College, and Mr. Ben- 

 jamin C. Gruenberg, of the Brooklyn Commercial High School, 

 recently passed public examinations for the Ph.D. degree at Colum- 

 bia University. Biological chemistry was one of the two minor 

 subjects in the advanced courses of each candidate. 



Prof. William Salant, Chief of the Pharmacological Laboratory 

 of the Bureau of Chemistry, is organizing and directing the equip- 

 ment of a laboratory for experimental pharmacology in the Med- 

 ical Department of Georgetown University. Heretofore this Insti- 

 tution has never given Instruction in pharmacology. Prof. Salant 

 is creating the Department of Pharmacology in that University. 



The Baugh Institute of Anatomy of the Jefferson Medical Col- 

 lege, erected at a cost of $125,000, by Mr. Daniel Baugh, was dedi- 

 cated on September 26. Prof. Edward A. Spitzka delivered one 

 of the dedicatory addresses. 



The names of the following members of the Biochemical Asso- 

 ciation appear on the official programs of national scientific societies 

 in Session in Baltimore and Washington during the holidays : 



H. M. Adler William J. Gies H. J. Muller 



Carl L. Aisberg Ross A. Gortner Anton R. Rose 



George D. Beal William T. Hörne Jacob Rosenbloom 



S. R. Benedict P. B. Hawk William Salant 



Isabel Bevier Michael Heidelberger Charles H. Sanford 



Samuel Bookman Max Kahn Emily C. Seaman 



Ernest D. Clark A. H. Kropff Fred. J. Seaver 



A. D. Emmett B. E. Livingston William H. Welker 



C. Stuart Gager Mary G. McCormick L. E. Wise 



Geo. A. Geiger G. M. Meyer L. Lorande Woodruff 



Sulfur in soils. That the sulfur in our soils, hitherto considered 

 of little importance to the fertility of the same, is of vast importance, 

 and is also being rapidly depleted due to improper methods of agri- 

 culture, is the gist of a bulletin published by the University of 

 Wisconsin, embodying the results of experiments conducted by Mr. 

 W. H. Peterson with Prof. E. B. Hart of the department of agri- 

 cultural chemistry. Sulfur has been considered relatively unim- 

 portant as compared with the phosphorus and nitrogen contents of 



