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biochemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. — Dr. Herman O. 

 Mosenthal, instructor, appointed associate, vice Dr. Rosenbloom re- 

 signed. — Dr. Max Kahn appointed instructor, vice Dr. Mosenthal 

 promoted. — Dr. Clayton S. Smith, instructor, resigned to accept an 

 assistantship in pharmacology in the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington. — Dr. Louis E. Wise ap- 

 pointed instructor, vice Dr. Smith resigned (page 203). 



The retirement of Drs. Rosenbloom and Smith from the depart- 

 ment as noted above, after active and very successful terms of Serv- 

 ice, occasioned deep regret among their associates at Columbia, 

 whose hearty good wishes attend them in their new fields of use- 

 fulness. ( See bibliography, below. ) 



Students. Arbuckle Sugar Co. (Brooklyn) : Abraham Gross, 

 research chemist. — Harriman Research Laboratory (Roosevelt Hos- 

 pital, N. Y.) : Marston L. Hamlin, research assistant. — Industrial 

 School (New Bedford, Mass.) : Constanze C. Hart (Teachers Col- 

 lege), assistant. — State Normal School (Truro, N. S.) : Blanche R. 

 Harris (Teachers College), assistant. — Texas (North) State Nor- 

 mal School: Blanche E. Shuffer (Teachers College), professor of 

 home economics. — N. Y. University and Bellevue Hospital Medical 

 College: Percy W. Punnett, assistant in chemistry. — ^University of 

 Kentucky: Mary E. Sweeny, head of extension department. — Uni- 

 versity of Porto Rico; L. A. Robinson, professor of psychology. — 

 Washington State College (Pullman) : Louise McDanell, instructor 

 in domestic science. — West High School (Rochester, N. Y.) : David 

 F. Renshaw, instructor in chemistry. 



Dr. Rosenbloom's career. Jacob Rosenbloom was born in 

 Braddock, Pa., on Feb. 25, 1884. His early education was received 

 in the public schools and high school of North Braddock, Pa. At 

 the end of a four-year course at the University of Pittsburgh he 

 received the degree of B.S. in chemistry, in 1905. From 1905 to 

 1909 he was a Student here at the College of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons, receiving the degrees of M.D. and Ph.D. in 1909. His ma- 

 jor subject for the Ph.D. degree was biological chemistry, with 

 Professor Gies. 



Dr. Rosenbloom was assistant in this department for the year 

 1909-19 10; associate (also assistant pathologist to the German 



