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the autumn series at the New York Botanical Garden, October 26, 

 on The chemical production of albuminous substances in plants. 

 On October 7 he addressed the Section on Research of the First 

 District Dental Society of the State of New York, at the Academy 

 of Medicine, on Recent developments in the study of dental caries. 

 Dr. Lothrop followed with a paper on the work he has been doing 

 in this connection on salivary mucin.^ — Professor Gies was one of 

 the Organizers of the New York Gastro-Enterological Society 

 (P- 315)- He is Secretary of a Committee of Twenty-five, of Prof. 

 R. H. Chittenden's pupils, in charge of a dinner to be given at Del- 

 monico's on March i in honor of Professor Chittenden, and of a 

 fund to be given to Yale in the name of Professor Chittenden. 



•Gies: Journal of the Allied (Dental) Societies, 1912, vii, pp. 397 and 478; 

 Lothrop : Ibid., p. 410. 



