BIOCHEMICAL NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENT 



CONTENTS 



Pack 



I. General 549 



IL Laboratory for pathological chemistry at the New York Post-Graduate 



Medical School and Hospital 567 



III. Department of biological chemistry of the Station for Experimental 



Evolution : The Carnegie Institution of Washington 567 



IV. Columbia Biochemical Association 56g 



1. General notes 569 



2. Proceedings of the association 570 



3. Columbia biochemical department 573 



I. GENERAL 



Necrology. Dr. B. J. 'Austin, lecturer in physiology and hy- 

 giene at University College, Reading, England, and latterly emer- 

 itus Professor of botany, — Professor Joseph von Bauer, director of 

 the first medical clinic at Munich, and author of many papers on 

 physiology and therapeutics, particularly in the field of deranged 

 metabolism and diseases of the blood vessels. — Dr. Eugene Caven- 

 tou, the distinguished organic chemist, president of the Paris Acad- 

 emy of Medicine in 1897. — Dr. Edward Divers, F.R.S., professor 

 emeritus of chemistry in the University of Japan, — Dr. 'Alfred 

 Prihram, professor of pathology in the German university at 

 Prague. — Gustav L. Ramsperger, honorary vice-president of the 

 New York College of Pharmacy. — Dr. Ernst Schulze, professor 

 of agricultural chemistry at the University of Zürich. — Dr. Moritz 

 Seidell, honorary professor of pharmacology at Jena. — Prof. Ed- 

 uard Strasburger, the eminent plant cytologist of the University of 

 Bonn. — Judson B. Todd, member of the N. Y. State Board of 

 Pharmacy since 1901. 



In memoriam. Lord Lister. Steps have been taken by the 

 Royal Society in association with the Royal College of Surgeons 

 to organize a committee which will issue an appeal in behalf of a 

 formal memorial to the late Lord Lister. 



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