47^ Biochemical News, Notes and Comment [April 



Carnegie Institution, Nutrition Laboratory: Dr. H. Monmouth 

 Smith (Syracuse), research chemist. 



Idaho State Chemist, Boise: Dr. H. Louis Jackson (assistant 

 Professor of chemistry, in charge of foods, Univ. of Kansas), State 

 chemist. 



Jefferson Medical College, Phila. ; department of physiological 

 chemistry and toxicology: Dr. M. A. Saylor, demonstrator ; Dr. 

 L. F. Fairlmll, insti*uctor; Dr. Olaf Bergeim, instructor; W. T. 

 Smith, assistant. 



Kiel: Prof. Otto Luharsch (Düsseldorf), director of the patho- 

 logical Institute, in succession to Prof. Arnold Heller. 



Königsberg: Prof. Franz Hoffmann (Prague), director of the 

 physiological institute, in succession to Prof. L. Hennann. 



Marburg: Professor Jores (Cologne), director of the patho- 

 logical institute. 



Mass. State Board of Health : Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, Harvard, 

 member. 



Mich. State Board of Health : Dr. Victor C. VaugJmn, Michigan, 

 member ( reappointment ) and president. 



N. Y. Agric. Experiment Station, Geneva: Dr. R. S. Breed 

 ( Professor of biology, Allegheny College) , bacteriologist. Dr. Breed 

 succeeds Dr. H. A. Harding who becomes head of the dairy depart- 

 ment of the University of Illinois. 



Tufts College, Medical School : Dr. Alfred W. Balch, professor 

 of chemical pathology and toxicology. 



U. S. Commission for the Detennination of a Standard of 

 Purity for Drinking Water: Prof. E. 0. Jordan, Chicago, member. 

 This commission has been formed in connection with the enforce- 

 ment of regulations relative to pure drinking water, and its object 

 is to establish a federal Standard which shall be generally applicable. 



U. S. Dep't of Agriculture: Prof. Ralph Hoagland (head of the 

 division of chemistry, College of Agric, Univ. of Minn.), officer 

 in the Bureau of Animal Husbandry. — H. B. Humphrey (head of 

 the department of botany, State College of Washington), patholo- 

 gist in Charge of cereal-disease investigations, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry. 



Univ. of Illinois: Dr. M. J. Prucha (Cornell Univ.), assistant 



