274 Anmial Meetings of Federated Societies [Jan. 



made toward the formation of a close federation of the American 

 Physiological Society, the American Society of Biological Chem- 

 ists and the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental 

 Therapeutics. The Society expressed its desire to enter into such a 

 federation, and a committee was appointed to confer with similar 

 committees of the sister societies with a view to bringing about such 

 a federation. The committee was granted power to make the ar- 

 rangements for the next annual meeting. This committee was also 

 directed to confer with a similar committee of the American Society 

 of Naturalists to consider the advisability of establishing closer rela- 

 tions with that society (page 278). 



Future programs. With regard to the measures of remedying 

 the threatening congestion of programs that were referred to the 

 Council at the last annual meeting, it was decided that should the 

 federation of the three societies be accomplished (page 269), the 

 secretaries of the federated societies be empowered to attempt the 

 equalization of the programs of the three societies by placing papers 

 on the program of the society to which its subject is most closely 

 related. It was also decided to place at the end of the program 

 papers presented by non-members, and, in the event of congestion 

 of the program, to read these by title. 



Officers-elect. The following officers were elected for the year 

 1913: 



President — S. J. Meltzer; Secretary — A. J. Carlson; Treas- 

 URER — Joseph Erlanger. 



Additional memeers of the COUNCIL — W. B. Camion and 

 F. S. Lee. 



Editorial committee on the publication of the American 

 Journal of Physiology for 1913 — W. T. Porter, A. J. Carlson, 

 Joseph Erlanger, W. H. Howell, F. S. Lee, Graham Lusk, S. J. 

 Meltser. (Appointed by the president.) 



Local entertainment. The local Committee on Enterta%iment, 

 following the plan that was first tried last year at Baltimore by 

 the members and friends of the Society, again agreed to dispense 

 with all private entertainment, and to Substitute for it informal 

 subscription dinners followed by smokers each evening while the 

 Society was in session. These functions were open to all members 



