5i6 Biochemical News, Notes and Comment [Mar. 



Dr. Frederic M. Hanes: Assistant professor of pathology at 

 Columbia University. 



Dr. Louis D. Mead: Assistant in medicine; assigned to the 

 department of pediatrics of the medical school of Leland Stanford, 

 Jr., University. 



Dr. A. Franklin Shull will be one of the instructors at the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan's Station for Instruction and research at Bo- 

 gardus Engineering Camp, Michigan, during the fourth summer 

 Session, July 2-August 23, inclusive. 



Dr. Louis E. Wise, lately chief analyst and research chemist 

 with Schieffelin and Company, has become research chemist at the 

 Standard Varnish Works, Staten Island, New York. 



Miscellaneous. Dr. William N. Berg has begun his new work 

 in the Pathological Division of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Dr. Louis J. Curtman recently published a very complete set of 

 '" Tables pertaining to soluhle inorganic Compounds for the use of 

 chemists, pharmacists and teachers of analytical and general chem- 

 istry." Biological chemists will find the tables very serviceable. 



At the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the 

 founding of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 

 held March 18-21, Dr. C. Stuart Gager represent ,d the Torrey 

 Botanical Club and also the University of Missouri. 



A chemical laboratory of the most modern construction has 

 been built for the Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution at 

 Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. This building will be equipped 

 with all the apparatus and material necessary for a biochemical 

 study of the problems of heredity in plants and animals. Dr. Ross 

 A. Gortner will direct the biochemical phases of this work. 



Dr. R. F. Hare is head of the Department of Chemistry of the 

 New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station. He and his staff are busily engaged 

 at present on a chemical study of New Mexico soils and waters in 

 Cooperation with the U. S. Geological Survey. 



Dr. H. D. House has presented to the New York Botanical 

 Garden a collection of 163 specimens of fleshy and woody fungi 



