BIOCHEMICAL NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENT 



Contents. — I. General: Necrology, 476; honors, 476; appointments, 477; 

 lectures, 479; societies, associations, etc., 480; miscellaneous items, 481. II. 

 Columbia University Biochemical Association: 1. General notes, 484; 2. Proceed- 

 ings of the Association, 486. 



I. GENERAL 



Necrology. Manfredi Alhanese, professor of pharmacology 

 and director of the School of Pharmacy at Pavia. — Philip Hanson 

 Hiss, professor of bacteriology at Columbia. — Dr. F. J. A. C. 

 Howitz, formerly professor of gynecology and obstetrics at Copen- 

 hagen; introduced thyroid treatment for myxedema. — Oscar Old- 

 herg, dean emeritus of Northwestern Univ. School of Pharmacy, 

 formerly dean of the National College of Pharmacy, Washington 

 (where he was instrumental in introducing the metric System of 

 weights and measurements in the government Service), for twenty 

 five years professor of pharmacy and for thirty years a member of 

 the committee on revision of the United States Pharmacopeia. — 

 John Seeman, director of the physiological laboratory of the Acad- 

 emy of Medicine, Cologne. — Prof. G. Vassale, professor of general 

 pathology at Modena; one of the leaders in the therapeutic utiliza- 

 tion of internal secretions. 



Honors. Orders of merit. Dr. Alexis Carrel (Rockefeiler 

 Institute) has been appointed a knight of the Legion of Honor. — 

 Drs. Alexis Carrel and Hideyo Noguchi (Rockef eller Institute), 

 and Dr. William H. Park (N. Y. Dep't of Health), have been 

 made knights of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic, by King 

 Alfonso of Spain. 



AwARDS OF MEDALS. The Chicago Section of the American 

 Chemical Society has awarded the Willard Gibbs medal to Dr. Leo 

 H. Baekeland (Yonkers). — The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 

 has recently awarded the Elliott Cresson gold medal to Prof. Emil 

 Fischer (Berlin) in recognition of numerous contributions of 

 fundamental importance to the science of organic and biological 

 chemistry; also to Sir William Ramsay (London) in recognition 



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