BIOCHEMICAL NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENT 



Contents. I. General: Necrology, 307; in memoriam, 307; honors, 308; re- 

 tirements, resignations, declinations and appointments, 310; lectures, 312; endow- 

 ments, funds and buildings, 313; societies, associations, etc., 314; officers-elect of 

 biological organizations, 315 ; miscellaneous items, 316. II. Columbia University 

 Biochemical Association: i. General notes, 321; 2. Proceedings of the Associa- 

 tion, 322; 3. Columbia Biochemical Department, 324. 



I. GENERAL 



Necrology. David Axenfeld, professor of physiology at 

 Perugia. — Carl Bins, professor of pharmacology at Bonn. — Edzvard 

 Curtis, emeritus professor of materia medica and therapeutics at 

 Columbia University. — Elie de Cyon, some time professor of physi- 

 ology at the Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, lately of Paris. 

 — Wilhelm Ebstein, professor of internal medicine at Göttingen. — 

 Humphrey O. Jones, proiQssor of chemistry at Cambridge. — Oszvald 

 Kohts, professor emeritus of diseases of children at Strassburg. — 

 Ewen Mcintyre, for many years president of the N, Y. College of 

 Pharmacy. — /. W. Mallett, professor emeritus of chemistry at the 

 University of Virginia. — Hermann Miink, professor emeritus of 

 physiology at the veterinary College in Berlin. — Clarence V. Murphy, 

 bacteriologist and medical chemist at the Mass. State Sanatorium, 

 Rutland. — Aime Pagnoul, formerly director of the Agricultural 

 Station at Pas-de-Calais. — Heinrich RittJmusen, professor emeritus 

 of agricultural chemistry at Königsberg. — Preston B. Rose, for- 

 merly assistant professor of physiological chemistry and toxicology, 

 and lecturer on renal diseases, at the University of Michigan. — O. 

 T. Williams, lecturer on pharmacology and demonstrator of bio- 

 chemistry at the University of Liverpool. 



In memoriam. Lord Lister. The Lister memorials com- 

 prise a " Lister International Memorial Fund," f rom which will be 

 drawn from time to time a Lister international award for the most 

 notable contribution to surgery in any part of the world, and which 

 will also Support fellowships and studentships in surgical research; 

 a monument in London; a memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey; 



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