MEETINGS OF THE SECTION ON BIOCHEM- 



ISTRY, INCLUDING PHARMACOLOGY (VIII, D), 



OF THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CON- 



GRESS OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY 



Proceedings reported by THE Secretary, 

 JOHN A. MANDEL 



I. LIST OF OFFICERS OF THE BIOCHEMICAL SECTION 



President, John J. Abel; Vice President, William J. Gies; Secre- 

 tary, John A. Mandel; Executive Committee: Reid Hunt, Thomas 

 B. Osborne and the officers. 



IL SECTIONAL PROGRAM^ 



The meetings of the Section were held on September 6 to Sep- 

 tember 12, inclusive, at Columbia University, in Room 301 of 

 Havemeyer Hall. The morning sessions were opened at 10 o'clock 

 and the afternoon sessions at i o'clock. 



Friday morning, September 6. In the chair: The Vice 

 President. Julius Stoklasa: Ueber die photochemische Synthese 

 der Kohlenhydrate unter Einwirkung der ultravioletten Strahlen. — 

 L. Marchlezvski: The present State of our knowledge of the relation- 

 ship of the chemistry of the blood coloring matter and Chlorophyll. — 

 L. Marchlezvski and C. A. Jacobson: On the quality of Chlorophyll 

 and the variable ratio of the two constituents, and on methods for 

 determining this ratio. — *Guido M. Piccinini: II manganese del 

 punto di vista delle funzioni enzimatiche. — ^ Jules Wolff: Sur la re- 

 sistance de la Peroxydase ä l'ammoniaque et sur son activation par 

 contact avec l'alcali. — *Jides Wolff: Sur une nouvelle fonction du 

 catalyseur dit " Peroxydase" et sur le transformation biochemique 

 de l'orcine en orceine (page 53). — Walter Jones: Some new phases 



*The asterisks indicate the papers which were actually presented. Some of 

 the titles were received after the official program had been printed and are 

 included here informally. Abstracts of most of the papers were published in 

 Volume 19 of the preliminary report of the proceedings of the Congress. 



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