480 Biochemical News, Notes and Coniment [April 



on Nutrition and growth. — Prof. H. C. Sherman lectured, Jan. 16, 

 before the Society of the Sigrna Xi, Columbia Univ., on Progress 

 and Problems in food chemistiy. 



Societies, associations, etc. National Academy of Sci- 

 ences. The National Academy of Sciences celebrated, on April 

 22, 23 and 24, the semi-centennial anniversary of its foundation, 

 exactly fifty years after its first meeting. Prof. Wm. H. Welch 

 (Johns Hopkins) was elected president. Prof. Lafayette B. Mendel 

 (Yale) was elected a member. 



American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 Officers elected: Section C : Dr. Carl L. Aisberg (U. S. Dep't of 

 Agric. ), vice-president and chairman; Section K: Dr. Theodore 

 Hough (Univ. of Va.), vice-president and chairman, and Dr. John 

 R. Murlin (Cornell Univ. Med. College), secretary. 



American Chemical Society: 47th anniial meeting, MU- 

 waukee, Wis., Mar. 25-28. An account of the proceedings, includ- 

 ing abstracts of papers, appears in Science, 37 : pp. 674-690. " Al- 

 though the Amer. Chem. Society changed its time of meeting from 

 winter to spring there was no falling off in the attendance at the 

 Milwaukee meeting." The next meeting will be held in Rochester, 

 N. Y., early in September. Divisional officers — Agricultural and 

 food chemistry: chairman, H. E. Barnard, secretary, Glen F. 

 Mason; biological chemistry : chairman, Carl L. Aisberg, secretary, 

 I. K. Phelps; phannaceutical chemistry: chairman, B. L. Murray, 

 secretary, F. R. Eldred; fertilizer chemistry : chairman, Paid Rud- 

 nick, secretary, /. E. Breckenridge. — Final Organization of the 

 Division of Biological Chemistry did not occur at the Milwaukee 

 meeting for the reason that this meeting corresponded to the old 

 Summer meeting, and it had been voted, at a previous meeting of the 

 Biological Section, that the final Organization should take place at 

 one of the annual meetings. It is, therefore, expected that the final 

 Organization of the Division will be consummated at the September 

 meeting, which is an annual meeting. 



Association of American Medical Colleges. Officers 

 elected : President, Dr. E. P. Lyon ( St. Louis Univ. ) ; vice-presi- 

 dent, F. F. Wesbrook (Univ. of Minn.) ; secretary-treasurer, F. C. 

 Zapple (Univ. of 111.),, 



