SOCIETY FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND 



MEDICINE 



Tenth anniversary meeting and dinner 



The tenth anniversary of the estal)Hshment of the Society for 

 Experimental Biology and Aledicine was celebrated in Xew York 

 on the iQth of February. The fifty sccond regulär scientific meet- 

 ing was held, at 4 p. m.. at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 

 in the lecture room adjoining the main biochemical laboratory. 

 After the conclnsion of the scientific meeting. at about 7 ]). m., the 

 members adjonrned to the Hofbräu Honse (39th Street and Broad- 

 way), where, in a body, they feasted on a beefsteak dinner prepared 

 nnder the auspices of a committee of which Prof. Graham Lusk 

 was chairman. 



The scientific session was the most interesting and important 

 in the history of the society. The nature of the proceedings is 

 shown by the appended copy of the official program : 



G. X . Calkiiis: Further light on the conjugation of paramecium. — 



JJ\ H. Maincaring and J. Bronfcnhrciuier: On lysis of tubercle bacilli 



(II) ; '^'On chemotherapeutics of tuberculosis. — U\S. Halstead: Hyper- 



trophy of the thyroid ; Partial occlusion of the aorta by bands of living 



tissue. — G. H. A. Cloivcs: Hay fever, with demonstration. — *J. /. 



Ringer: Further studies on the fate of fatty acids in the diabetic organ- 



isni. — R. M. Pcarcc and P. F. Williams: Experience with Abderhalden's 



test for pregnancy. — L. L. JJ'oodruff: The kernplasma relation during 



the life of a pedigreed race of O.vyfliricha f alias. — Richard JJ'cil: A 



new factor in anaphylaxis. — E. E. Biiffcrficld: The reaction between 



oxygen and hemoglobin. — *F. S. Lee and S. Everinglmin: The myo- 



neural junction in fatigue. — F. H. Pike: A demonstration of the effects 



of electrical Stimulation of the labyrinth of the ear. — E. L. Scott: The 



relation of pancreatic extract to the sugar of the blood. — A. F. Hess: 



The pancreatic lipase of infants in acute intestinal disturbances. — JV. 



H. Park, L. ]]'. Fainiilcucr and E. J. Banzhaf: Influence of protein 



concentration on absorption of antibodies in sul)cutaneous injections. — 



* On the ofificial program, but not abstracted in the Proc. Soc. Ex[>. Bio!, 

 aiid Med.. 1913. x. pp. 65-122. 



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