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Society notes. The American Society of Biological Cheniists 

 held its sixth annual meeting in two general sessions : one, at Balti- 

 more, December 27-28, in affiliation with the American Physio- 

 logical Society and the Society for Pharmacology and Experimental 

 Therapeutics; the other, at Washington, December 29, in affiliation 

 with the Biological Section of the American Chemical Society. No. 

 2 of volume II of the Proceedings of the American Society of Bio- 

 logical Chemists gives an account of the transactions of these ses- 

 sions. Abstracts of papers also appear in the Journal of Biological 

 Chemistry (xi, March), the American Journal of Physiology (xxix, 

 February), and the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental 

 Therapeutics (iii, March). 



A general account of the proceedings of the Washington meet- 

 ing of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 

 (December 27-31, 191 1) was published in the January 5 issue of 

 Science (34, 1-8). The next meeting of the American Association 

 will be held at Cleveland, Ohio, beginning on Monday, December 

 30, 1912. 



At the last annual meeting of the American Chemical Society 

 the Biological Section of the Society was authorized to form a Bio- 

 logical Division. The officers of the Biological Section were : 

 Chairman, Carl L. Aisberg; Secretary, Isaac K, Phelps. It was 

 also voted to donate the library of the American Chemical Society 

 to the New York Chemist's Club on condition that members of the 

 Chemical Society have ready access thereto. 



A movement to unite all American botanical associations under 

 the Botanical Society of America was auspiciously inaugurated at 

 Washington during Convocation Week. 



Lectures. Cutter lecture. The first of the annual series of 

 lectures was given on the Cutter foundation at Harvard Medical 

 School, March 13, by Dr. William H. Park, on " Observ^ations on 

 dosage and methods of injecting antitoxin in the treatment and 

 prevention of diphtheria and tetanus." 



The Norman W. Harris lectures of Northwestern University 

 were given, April 15 to 20, by Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, on the general 

 subject of "Milk and its Relation to Public Health." The succes- 



