312 Biochemical News, Notes and Comment ■ [Jan. 



U. S. Bureau of Mines : Dr. Reid Hunt, member of the commission 

 on the Hygiene and danger conditions in mines. 



University of California: Dr. /. IV. Gilmore (College of Hawaii), 

 head of the department of agronomy, College of Agriculture. — Dr. 

 H. J. Webher (Cornell College of Agriculture), director of the Citrus 

 Experiment Station and dean of the Graduate School of Tropica! 

 Agriculture. 



University of Chicago: Appointments necessitated by the death of 

 Prof. Waldemar Koch^ — Dr. Fred C. Koch, instructor in physiological 

 chemistry; Dr. Shiro Tashiro, assistant in physiological chemistry; 

 Miss Mathilde Koch, research assistant in physiological chemistry; 

 Dr. G. L. Kite, assistant in pharmacology. (Associate professor S. A. 

 Matthews is conducting the course in pharmacology.) 



University of Illinois: Dr. C. W. Allee (University of Chicago), 

 instructor in plant physiology. 



University of Kansas : Dr. F. P. Chillengworth, assistant professor 

 of physiology. — Dr. C. A. Shull (University of Chicago), assistant pro- 

 fessor of plant physiology. 



Yale University: Dr. F. P. Underhill, professor of pathological 

 chemistry in the Medical School. 



Lectures. Middleton Goldsmith lectures of the N. Y. 

 Pathological Society. Dr. E. F. Bashford, director of the Im- 

 perial Cancer Research Fund of England, delivered two lectures on 

 "Cancer" at the N. Y. Academy of Medicine, on the evenings of 

 October 2 and 4. 



Lectures by visiting members of the 15TH International 

 Congress on Hygiene and Demograph y (p. 129). Prof. Max 

 Riibner, Berlin: (N. Y. Academy of Medicine), Wesley M. Car- 

 penter lecture, Oct. 3, The life of a cell; Harvey lecture, Oct. 5, 

 Modern steam sterilization ; (N. Y. University and Bellevue Hos- 

 pital Medical College), Herter lectures (5), Energy problems in 

 nutrition, Oct. 7-1 1. — Prof. Carl von Noorden, Vienna: (N. Y. 

 Post-Graduate Medical School), lectures on New aspects of the 

 pathologic treatment of diabetes, and Diagnosis and treatment of 

 nephritis, October 29-31; (Johns Hopkins Hospital), The princi- 

 ples of treatment of diabetes mellitus, Nov. 2; (St. Louis Medical 

 Society), Treatment of acetonuria, Sept. 30. — Prof. Hermann 



^Biochemical Bulletin, 1912, i, pp. Z72 and 522. 



