1912] Columbia University Biochemical Association 201 



ogist. — Long Island Medical College: Dr. Matthew Steel (assist- 

 ant Professor of physiological chemistry, University of Missouri), as- 

 sistant professor of physiological chemistry and pharmacology. — At 

 a recent annual meeting of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, in 

 London, Dr. William H. Woglom was appointed first assistant in 

 New York, a position maintained under the auspices of the Crocker 

 Fund for the investigation of Cancer. Dr. Woglom has returned 

 from London, where he had been pursuing a course of study under 

 Dr. Bashford, director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. 



2. Proceedings of the Association. 



Abstracts of the scientific proceedings of the third annual meet- 

 ing (June) are pubHshed on pages 156-187 of this issue. 



3. Columbia Biochemical Department. 

 The new Assistant Professor, Dr. Paul E. Howe, B.S., A.M., 

 PhD.^ Memorandum which was presented to the Faculty 

 OF Medicine with Dr. Howe's nomination to the Assistant 



PROFESSORSHIP IN BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY. 



Paul Edward Howe was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 29, 

 1885. His early education was received in the public schools of 

 Chicago, Champaign and Urbana, Illinois (1890-1901). He at- 

 tended the Urbana High School (1899-1901) and spent a year 

 (i90i-'02) in the Preparatory School of the University of Illinois. 

 At the end of a four-year course at the University of Illinois he 

 received the degree of B.S. in Chemistry in 1906. 



Since 1906 he has been a graduate Student and officer at the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, passing by promotion through the grades of 

 Scholar in chemistry in the graduate school (i9o6-'o7), assistant 

 chemist in the laboratory of physiological chemistry (1907-08), 

 assistant in physiological chemistry (1908-10), and instructor in 

 physiological chemistry (i9io-'i2). 



In 1907 he received the degree of M.A. ; in 1910, the degree of 

 Ph.D. His major subject for the Ph.D. degree was physiological 

 chemistry, with Professor P. B. Hawk; his minor subjects were 

 physical chemistry, physiology and histology. 



* Biochemical Bulletin: 1911-12, i, pp. 136, 570, 573 and 574. 



