BIOCHEMICAL NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENT 



Contents. — I. General: Necrology, 567; in memoriam, 567; honors, 567; res- 

 ignations, declination and appointments, 568; lectures, 570; buildings, funds and 

 scholarships, 570; commissions, 572; miscellaneous items, 573. II. Columbia 

 University Biocheniical Association: i. General notes, 574; 2. Proceedings of the 

 Association, 577; Columbia Biochemical Department, 578. 



I GENERAL 



Necrology. N. H. Alcock, prof. of physiology, McGill Univ. — 

 Francis Gotch, Waynflete prof. of physiology, and fellow of Mag- 

 dalen Coli., Oxford Univ. — Max Kassowits, prof. of diseases of 

 children, Vienna. — William McMurtrie, one of our leading indus- 

 trial chemists, formerly chief chemist, U. S. Dep't of Agric, and 

 prof. of chemistry, Univ. of Illinois. 



In memoriam. At a recent meeting of the N. Y. Soc. of Anes- 

 thetists, the following memorial was drafted: " Algernon Thomas 

 Bristow — His editorial and practical hospital support of the ad- 

 vancement of the art of general anesthesia has time and again 

 aroused the admiration and emulation of this body of anesthetists, 

 and so active and influential has this work among his many follow- 

 ers been, that this society wishes itself placed on record as consider- 

 ing his work monumentally constructive, and its cessation as a great 

 loss to the surgical world." 



Honors. Knighthood. Dr. E. A. Schäfer, prof. of physiol- 

 ogy, Univ. of Edinburgh, has received the honor of knighthood. 



Order of merit. Dr. Hans Molisch, director of the Inst, for 

 Plant Physiology, Univ. of Vienna, has been invested with the 

 Order of the Iron Crown. 



HoNORARY DEGREES. Columbia Univ. : Dr. Alexis Carrel 

 (Rockefeiler Inst.), Doctor of Science. — Princeton Univ.: Dr. 

 Simon Flexner (Rockefeiler Inst.) and Dr. David L. Edsall (Har- 

 vard Med. Seh.), Doctor of Science. — Univ. of Edinburgh: James 

 Wilson (lately Sec'y of Agric), Doctor of Laws. — Univ. of Michi- 



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