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istry and toxicology in the medical school of the University o£ 

 Pennsylvania. 



Regierungsrat Dr. Weber, who aided in the scientific Organiza- 

 tion of the Dresden International Hygiene Exposition, has been 

 appointed director of the imperial health office (Gesundheitsamt) 

 to succeed Professor Uhlenhuth, who is at present director of the 

 hygienic institute at Strasburg. 



Dr. Lilian Welsh, professor of physiology and hygiene in 

 Goucher College, has been appointed special lecturer on hygiene to 

 the women students of the University of Michigan. (See page 504. ) 



Prof. H. Staudinger, of the Technische Hochschule, Karlsruhe, 

 has been appointed to the chair of organic chemistry at the Eidge- 

 nössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, to succeed Prof. Richard 

 Willstätter, who will direct the work in organic chemistry of the 

 new Kaiser Wilhelm Research Institute at Berlin. 



OfEcers-elect of biological societies. The names of officers 

 elected at the last annual meetings of leading biological societies 

 are grouped below : 



American Society of Biological Chemists : President, A. B, 

 Macallum; Vice-President, Graham Lusk; Secretary, A. N. Rich- 

 ards; Treasurer, Walter Jones; Additional meinbers of the Councü: 

 H. P. Armsby, Lafayette B. Mendel and H. Gideon Wells; Nomi- 

 nating Committee: J. J. Abel, F. G. Benedict, H. C. Bradley, Otto 

 Polin, William J. Gies, Andrew Hunter, J. B. Leathes, J. J. R. 

 Macleod, D. D. Van Slyke; Committee on nomendatiire and Classi- 

 fication of fats and fat-like siihstances: Waldemar Koch, H. D. 

 Dakin, William J. Gies, J. B. Leathes and Jacques Loeb. 



American Chemical Society : President, A. D. Little ; Secre- 

 tary, Chas. L. Parsons; Treasurer, A. P. Hallock. 



Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine: Presi- 

 dent, James Ewing; Vice-President, P. A. Levene; Secretary, 

 George B. Wallace; Treasurer, Charles Norris. 



American Home Economics Association: President, Isabel 

 Bevier ; Vice^Presidents, C. F. Langworthy, Martha Van Rensselaer, 

 Abby L. Marlatt; Secretary, B. R. Andrews; Treasurer, Howard L. 

 Knight; Councillors (five years), Ellen A. Huntington, Catherine 



