BIOCHEMICAL NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENT 



CONTENTS 



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I. General 486 



II. Pharmacological Laboratory, U. S. Bureau of Chemistry 512 



III. Columbia Biochemical Association 513 



IV. Columbia Biochemical Department 517 



I. GENERAL 



Necrology. Dr. Theophile Durand, director of the Jardin 

 Botanique de l'Etat at Brüssels. 



Dr. Ditmar Finkler, retired professor of hygiene at the Uni- 

 versity of Bonn. 



Dr. Paul G. Freer, director of the United States Government 

 Scientific Bureau in the Philippines and editor of the Philippine 

 Journal of Science. 



Dr. G. Armauer Hansen, the Norwegian biologist and zoologist, 

 and the discoverer of the bacillus of leprosy (1871). 



Dr. Waldemar Koch, assistant professor of pharmacology in 



the University of Chicago. (See pages 372 and 522.) 



Dr. Joseph Lister, founder of the antiseptic method in surgery. 

 (See pages 371, 487 and 519.) 



Dr. Naokichi Matsui, Dean of the Agricultural College of the 

 Imperial University of Tokyo. 



Enno Sander, a well-known pharmacist of St. Louis, a charter 

 member of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United 

 States, and a pharmaceutical member of the American Medical 

 Association. 



In memoriam. Lord Lister. The lord provost of Glasgow 

 proposes to convene a Conference to promote an international 

 memorial to Lord Lister in Glasgow. (See pages 371, 487 and 519.) 



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