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Dr. Paul E. Howe, instructor in physiological chemistry at the 

 University of Illinois, has been appointed to the assistant professor- 

 ship made vacant by Professor Welker's resignation. 



Dr. Jacob Rosenbloom recently resigned bis affiliated position at 

 Mt. Sinai Hospital (page 362), to accept a similar relation to the 

 German Hospital and Dispensary as assistant pathologist in charge 

 of the chemical laboratory. 



Dr. E. D. Clark, greatly to our regret, has resigned bis instruc- 

 torship to accept a similar position in Professor Benedict's depart- 

 ment at Cornell Medical School made vacant by Dr. Fisher's retire- 

 ment (page 570). 



Dr. Harold E. Woodward has begun work as assistant chemist 

 in the Food and Drug Inspection Laboratory of the U. S. Ap- 

 praiser's Stores in Philadelphia. 



Miscellaneous notes. Dr. Herman O. Mosenthal is spending 

 a three months' leave of absence at the medical clinic in Tübingen. 

 He is working there under the direction of Professors Romberg and 

 Schlayer, observing especially their methods of treating cases of 

 nephritis at the bedside and also investigating the action of diuretics 

 in experimental animal nephritis. He will return about August i, 



At its last commencement Rutgers College conferred upon 

 Clayton S. Smith the degree of M.S., in recognition of bis teaching 

 and research since bis graduation from Rutgers in 1909. 



Dr. John L. Kantor, who received both the M.D. and Ph.D. 

 degrees at the last Columbia commencement, coöperated with Pro- 

 fessor Gies in research during bis vacations, from the time he be- 

 came a medical student in 1908. The high quality of bis work is 

 indicated by the fact that he was one of the honor men in medicine, 

 Standing very nearly at the head of the " honor list." 



Awards of higher degrees at Columbia to students of bio- 

 logical chemistry. Doctors of philosophy. Of the twenty-four 

 recipients of the degree of Ph.D. under the Faculty of Pure Science, 

 at Columbia's last commencement, thirteen had taken majors or 

 minors, or both, in the biochemical department. The names of the 



