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Dr. Reiiben Ottenberg was recently elected a member of the 

 Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. 



Dr. Jacob Rosenbloom has lately accepted appointment to the 

 Position of assistant in bacteriology at the Mt. Sinai Hospital. 



Prof. Wm. H. Welker has been elected a member of the Radium 

 Institute of America, and also of the Harvey Medical Society. 



Investigations of dental disease, which Professor Gies inau- 

 gurated two years ago with Dr. Lothrop's Cooperation under the 

 auspices of the New York Institute of Stomatology, are still in 

 progress at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. The Decem- 

 ber issue of the Journal of the (Allied) Dental Societies contains 

 the following papers on the subject (pp. 289-338) : Attempts to im- 

 prove the general method for the quantitative determination of 

 sulfocyanate in saliva — Eimer W. Baker and William J. Gies. 

 The oral microörganisms : A bacterio-chemicalstudyof dental caries 

 — Alfred P. Lothrop. On variations in the occurrence of nitrite in 

 saliva — Clayton S. Smith and Eimer W. Baker. On the origin and 

 significance of sulfocyanate in saliva — William J. Gies. The Com- 

 mittee on Scientific Research of the Dental Society of the State of 

 New York recently invited Professor Gies to propose a plan of 

 investigation of dental disease. He suggested the investigation of 

 sulfocyanate in its possible relation to dental caries {Dental Cosmos, 

 1911, liii, p. 1324), The plan was approved and is now in process 

 of execution by Professor Gies with the Cooperation of Dr. Max 

 Kahn in the biochemical laboratory at the College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons. 



Advanced students in the Department of Biological Chemistry 

 have been appointed to fellowships and scholarships, as follows : Miss 

 Louise McDanell, Research Scholar, Teachers College ; Mr. Edward 

 Gray Grififiin, University Scholar in Organic Chemistry; Dr. Max 

 Kahn, University Scholar in Organic Chemistry; Mr. Marston L. 

 Hamlin, University Fellow in Organic Chemistry; Mr. Harold E. 

 Woodward, Goldschmidt Fellow in Physical Chemistry. 



Professor Gies continues to keep the laboratory at the College 

 of Physicians and Surgeons open, and to guide investigators, at 

 night by appointment. This plan has been followed for years in all 

 cases where the interests of graduate students have prompted it. 



