SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS OF THE COLUMBIA UNI- 



VERSITY BIOCHEMICAL ASSOCIATION, AT 



THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND 



SURGEONS, NEW YORK* 



Proceedings reported by THE Secretary, 



ALFRED P. LOTHROP 



I. NINTH MEETING 



The ninth scientific session of the Columbia University Bio- 

 chemical Association was held at the Columbia Medical School, at 

 4:15 p. m., 011 February 7, 1913.-^ Abstracts of the papers are 

 here presented (pages 453-461) in two groups: (A) Abstracts of 

 the papers on research by non-resident members^ and (B) abstracts 

 of papers from the Columbia Biochemical Department and affili- 

 ated laboratories. The appended summary facilitates reference to 

 the abstracts (63-72).^ 



A SUMMARY OF THE NAMES OF THE AUTHORS AND OF THE 

 TITLES OF THE SUCCEEDING ABSTRACTS (63-72) 



A K. George Falk and Marston L. 



Jacob J. Bronfenbrenner and W. H. Hamlin. The action of manganous 



Manwaring. Resistance in tuber- sulfate on castor-bean lipase. (66) 



culosis. (63) E. Newton Harvey. The temperature 



BuRRiLL B. Crohn. The enzymic limits of phosphorescence of lumi- 



power of duodenal Contents as a nous bacteria. (67) 



means of diagnosis of the func- A. Hymanson (by invitation). Me- 



tional activity of the pancreas. (64) tabolism studies of amaurotic family 



K. George Falk (by invitation). The idiocy. (68) 



occurrence of a urease in castor Max Morse. A micro-Kjeldahl appa- 



bean. (65) ratus. (69) 



* Scientific meetings are held regularly on the first Fridays of December, 

 February and April, and on the first Monday in June. 



* Proceedings of the eighth meeting were published in the last number of 

 the Biochemical Bulletin, 1913, ii, p. 284. 



* Members of the Association who were not officially connected with the 

 Columbia Biochemical Department when the research was conducted. 



®For abstracts 1-44 see Biochemical Bulletin, 1912, ii, p. 156; for 

 abstracts 45-62, Ibid., 1913, ii, p. 285. See also page 462. 



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