200 Biochemical News, Notes and Comment [Sept. 



COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BIOCHEMICAL ASSOCIATION 



I. General notes 



Miscellaneous items. Dr. Carl L. Alsherg was one of the dis- 

 tinguished non-resident scientists to participate, by invitation, in a 

 series of lectures, during the late summer at Fordham University 

 Medical College, in New York, on nervous and mental diseases. — 

 The following members of the Association conducted investigations 

 at Woods Hole, Mass., during the summer: Cora J. Beckwith, H. 

 B. Goodrich, Louise H. Gregory, Charles Packard, Alwin W. Pap- 

 penheimer, Henry J. Spencer, Charles R. Stockard, Isabel Wheeler, 

 and L. L. Woodruff. — Dr. 'A. Richard Bliss is editor-in-chief of 

 TheMask, the official national organ of the Kappa Psi Fraternity. — 

 Prof. R. Burton-Opitz is now in Europe, where he is spending a 

 half-year leave of absence. 



Officers of societies. Section (V) on Control of Infectious 

 Diseases of the I5th International Congress on Hygiene and Demog- 

 raphy (page 194) : Dr. Charles F. Boldiian, secretary. — New York 

 Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital : Dr. Arthur F. Chace, 

 secretary (reelected). — Section (IV) on Organic Chemistry of the 

 8th International Congress of Applied Chemistry (page 194) Dr. 

 Harry L. Bisher, secretary. — N. Y. Entomological Society: Prof. 

 Raymond C. Oshiirn, president. — American Association for the 

 Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality: Dr. Philip Van Ingen, 

 secretary. 



Appointments. Jefferson Medical College (Philadelphia) : Dr. 

 Philip B. Hawk (professor of physiological chemistry, University 

 of Illinois), professor of physiological chemistry and toxicology. — 

 Rockefeiler Institute for Medical Research: Dr. Michael Heidel- 

 berger (recently returned from Zürich), fellow in chemistry. — 

 Johns Hopkins University: Dr. John Howland (professor of 

 pediatrics in Washington University, St. Louis), director of the 

 Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children, professor of pediatrics, 

 and physician in charge of the pediatric department of Johns 

 Hopkins Hospital. — ^Cornell University Medical College, Loomis 

 Laboratory : Miss Jessie A. Moore (assistant at the Rockefeiler Insti- 

 tute for Medical Research), chemical assistant. — N. J. Agricultural 

 Experiment Station: Mr. Carl A. Schwarze, assistant plant pathol- 



