3i6 Biochcmical News, Notes and Comment • [Jan. 



Stewart; vicc-prcsident, Haven Metcalf ; secretary-treasurer, C. L, 

 Shear; coimcilor, W. J. Morse. 



BoTANicAL Society of America: President, D. H. Campbell; 

 vice-president, M. A. Howe; treasiirer, Arthur Hollick; secretary, 

 George T. Moore; coiincilors, G. F. Atkinson, R. A. Harper and 

 William Trelease. 



American Society of Zoologists : President, Henry B. Ward. 

 — Eastern Branch: President, Raymond Pearl; vice-president, Alex- 

 ander Petrimkevitch ; secretary-treasurer, Caswell Grave ; additional 

 memhers of the executive conimittee, C. E. McClung, R. G. Harri- 

 son (elected, 1910), and H. E. Jordan (elected, 191 1). — Central 

 Branch: The present officers continue until the next meeting of this 

 branch (Biochemical Bulletin, 1912, i, p. 494). 



Society of Chemical Industry : President, Marston T. Bogert. 



Miscellaneous items. Medallion of van't Hoff. The 

 Dutch sculptor, Pier Pander (Rome), has executed a bronze medal- 

 lion of van't Hoff. Any one desiringto purchase a copy of it should 

 address Prof. Ernst Cohen, van't Hoff Laboratorium, University, 

 Utrecht, Holland. If 100 copies are sold, the price will be 6.50 

 Marks (5.50 Marks if 200 copies are sold). The medallion has 

 been executed after a portrait relief in marble by Pier Pander. 



Citrus Experiment Station. The University of California 

 has for several years maintained four separate sub-stations in south- 

 ern California. These will be united into an enlarged research Sta- 

 tion which will probably be located at Riverside. While this Station 

 will be designated the Citrus Experiment Station, after the domi- 

 nant industry of southem California, the work will relate to all 

 crops grown in that region. The coupling of the Graduate School 

 of Tropical Agriculture with the Station for Agricultural Research 

 will make it unique among our agricultural experiment stations. 



Coroner's CONSULTANTS. Coroner Peter M. Hoffman, of Cook 

 County, 111., has named Drs. John H. Long, Walter S. Haines, Lud- 

 vig Hektoen and John A. Wesener, and Chief Justice Harry Olsen 

 of the Municipal Court, as his Consulting staff. With the aid of this 

 staff of Consultants, and the establishment of a chemical laboratory, 

 the coroner hopes to reduce the number of fatalities from poison- 



