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WINIFRED J. ROBINSON, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

 WILLIAM SALANT, Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 FREDERICK W. SCHWARTZ, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. 

 A. D. SELBY, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio 

 A. FRANKLIN SHULL, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 

 EDWARD A. SPITZKA, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 MATTHEW STEEL, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. 

 WILLIAM A. TALTAVALL, Redlands, Cal. 



IDA C. WADSWORTH, Brockport State Normal School, Brockport, N. Y. 

 DAVID D. WHITNEY, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 

 LORANDE LOSS WOODRUFF, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 

 HANS ZINSSER, Leland Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal. 

 (Non-resident members of the Columbia University Biochemical Association) 



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