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Dr. David Marine, assistant professor of experimental medicine, 

 Western Reserve Univ., is spending the year in Europe, travelling 

 and visiting various laboratories. 



Dr. Roy G. Pearce, demonstrator of physiology, Western Re- 

 serve Univ., has sailed for Berne, Switzerland, where he will spend 

 some time in the physiological laboratory of Prof. Leon Asher. 



Dr. George B. Rigg, instructor in botany, Univ. of Washington, 

 and special agent of the U. S. Dep't of Agric. in kelp investigation 

 in 191 1 and 191 2, is directing an expedition to western Alaska for 

 the purpose of investigating the kelps of that region as a source of 

 potash fertilizer. 



Dr. Alfred Vivian, professor of agric. chemistry, Ohio State 

 Univ., is making a tour of the world, and is now in India. Pro- 

 fessor Vivian will deliver a course of lectures on soil fertility at 

 the agric. school at Allahabad. 



COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BIOCHEMICAL ASSOCIATION 



I. General notes 



Professor Chittenden ill. Dean Russell H. Chittenden is re- 

 covering, we are glad to report, from the efifects of a recent Opera- 

 tion. He will be unable to resume his duties for the remainder of 

 the academic year. 



Professor Smith will go to Princeton. Prof. Alexander 

 Smith has accepted the professorship of chemistry on the Wyman 

 Foundation, at Princeton University, and the headship of the de- 

 partment of chemistry. By the desire of the president and trustees 

 of Columbia Univ., as well as his own, Professor Smith will com- 

 plete three years of service at Columbia Univ., and will accept the 

 Princeton appointment to take effect at the beginning of the aca- 

 demic year 191 4-1 5. 



Appointments.2 Dr. Donald B. Armstrong (Mass. Inst, of 

 Technology), executive secretary of the N. Y. Association for Im- 

 proving the Condition of the Poor; Bureau of Public Health and 

 Hygiene. — Dr. Louis E. Bisch (Manhattan State Hospital), mem- 

 ber of the Medical Board and visiting neurologist, N. Y. City Chil- 



^ See footnote, page 477. 



