1913] Columbia Biochemical Association 321 



and direct the motions o£ electrons. This has already been largely 

 achieved by electric contrivances : it is, however, only by the use of 

 concrete ideas regarding the "material" used, viz., electricity, that 

 the progress of invention and discovery can be hastened {Science, 

 191 2, xxxvi, p. 684). 



IL COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BIOCHEMICAL ASSOCIATION 



I. General notes 



Marriages. On October 2, Miss Rowena Farmer and Dr. 

 Oscar M. Schloss. — On October 15, Miss Ethel P. Willcox and Dr. 

 Harold E. Woodward. 



Appointments. Columbia University : Dr. Russell L. Cecil, 

 Proudfit fellow in medicine; Dr. Wm. H. Woglom, assistant pro- 

 fessor engaged in cancer research (page 201). — Cornell University 

 Medical College : Dr. Stanley R. Benedict, professor of chemistry 

 (promotion). — Johns Hopkins Medical School: Dr. Edwards A. 

 Park (Columbia University), assistant professor of pediatrics. — 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College: Dr. H. D. Goodale (Carnegie 

 Institution, Station for Experimental Evolution), research biologist. 

 department of poultry husbandry. — Turck Research Laboratory 

 (New York) : Dr. Anton R. Rose (Columbia University), chemist. 

 — University of Texas (Austin) : Mary E. Gearing (Public 

 Schools, Houston, Tex.), professor of domestic science; Anna E. 

 Richardson (Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga.), assistant pro- 

 fessor of domestic science. — U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Bureau of Chemistry: Carl L. Aisberg, chief chemist (p. 211) ; H. 

 E. Buchbinder, assistant chemist. (P. 324.) 



New members and ofEcers-elect of societies. American So- 

 ciety of Biological Chemists : Members, Louis Baumann, Samuel 

 Bookman, Ernest D. Clark, Isidor Greenwald, Alfred P. Lothrop; 

 Nominating Committee, Carl L. Aisberg, P. B. Hawk and Alfred 

 N. Richards; Lipoid nomenclature committee, Wm. J. Gies; Com- 

 mittee on the Organization of a federation of biological societies, 

 Wm. J. Gies (p. 277) . — American Society of Naturalists : E. Newton 

 Harvey. — American Society of Zoologists : E. Newton Harvey. — 

 Phi Lambda Upsilon: National president, A. D. Emmett; national 

 secretary, H. L. Fisher; registrar, George D. Beal. — Society for 



