SIXTH SCIENTIFIC MEETING OF THE COLUMBIA 



UNIVERSITY BIOCHEMICAL ASSOCIATION, AT 



THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SUR- 



GEONS, NEW YORK, JUNE 3, 1912 



PrOCEEDINGS RePORTED BY THE Secretary, 



ALFRED P. LOTHROP 



The sixth scientific session (third "annual" meeting) of the 

 Columbia University Biochemical Association was held at the Co- 

 lumbia Medical School on the evening of June 3, 191 2. The execu- 

 tive proceedings of this session were published on pages 570-573 of 

 Volume I of the Biochemical Bulletin (June number). 



The scientific proceedings consisted of research Communications 

 by members of the Association. Abstracts of the papers are pre- 

 sented here (pages 158-187) in two groups: (I) Abstracts of papers 

 on research by non-resident members^ and (II) abstracts of 

 papers from the Columbia Biochemical Department and affiliated 

 laboratories. The appended summary will faciliate reference tp 

 the abstracts (1-44). 



A SUMMARY OF THE NAMES OF THE AUTHORS AND OF THE 

 TITLES OF THE SUCCEEDING ABSTRACTS 



I Allan C. Eustis. On the physio- 



WiLLiAM N. Berg. The physico- logical action of some of the amins 



Chemical basis of striated-muscle produced by intestinal putrefaction. 



contraction. (i) (s) 



William N. Berg, with L. A. Rogers, Allan C. Eustis. Solubilities and 



C. R. Potteiger and B. J. Davis. action of ^-imidazolylethylamin and 



Factors influencing the flavors of the relation to asthma and anaphy- 



storage butter. (2) laxis. (6) 



Isabel Bevier, for Anna W. Wil- A. J. Goldfarb. On the production of 



liams. A study of ropy bread. (3) grafted multiple embryos. (7) 



Allan C. Eustis. On the toxicity of Max Morse. Non-toxicity of inor- 



guinea pig urine and its relation to ganic colloid Solutions upon protozoa. 



anaphylaxis. .(4) (8) 



^ Members of the Association who were not officially connected with the 

 Columbia biochemical department when the research was conducted. 



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