572 Biochcmical News, Notes and Comment [july 



R. Rose (Univ. of Minn,, Yale and Columbia), Arthur Knudson 

 (Univ. of Missouri and Columbia), Katherine R. Coleman (Co- 

 lumbia Univ.); physiol. chemistry: Vincent Greco (Univ. of Pa- 

 lermo, Italy) ; bacteriology : Otto Maurer (K, Oberrealschule, Heil- 

 bronn, Gemiany, and Univ. of Wis. ), W. W. Browne (Brown 

 Univ.); general pathology: P. J. Friedman (Dept. of Health, Re- 

 search Lab., City of N. Y.) and Earle Kister (Univ. of Toronto). 



Commissions. In the report for 1912 of the Council of the 

 Amer. Med. Assoc, the appointment of a Commission on Electrical 

 Shock was announced. This commission completed its work in the 

 fall, preparing a chart and a book of directions for resuscitation 

 from electrical shock, both of which were printed by the Electrical 

 World, and distributed free in large quantities to electric-light 

 plants, power houses, factories and other places where electrical cur- 

 rents are in constant use. As a result of the work of this commis- 

 sion, the Council was asked by the director of the Bureau of Mines 

 of the U. S. Dep't of Labor to appoint a similar Commission on 

 Resuscitation from Mine Gases. The following were appointed 

 such a commission: Dr. W. B. Cannon (Harvard Univ.), Chair- 

 man, Dr. 6*. /. Meltzer (Rockefeiler Inst.), Dr. Yandell Henderson 

 (Yale Univ.), Dr. George W. Crile (Western Reserve Univ.), Dr. 

 Reid Hunt (Harvard Univ.), Dr. Joseph Erlang er (St. Louis 

 Univ.). — A recent ruling of the U. S. Public Health Service has 

 been made demanding that all Interstate carriers supply certified 

 water and ice to be used in public drinking fountains, tanks, etc. 

 Under this ruling the various ice and water companies are com- 

 pelled to obtain certification of their ice and water to be used on 

 steamboats and trains. Accordingly, a commission, to be known as 

 the Chicago Ice Commission, has been formed, composed of Drs. 

 Ludvig Hektoen, director of the Mem, Inst, for Infec. Diseases; 

 Edwin O. Jordan, prof. of bacteriology, Univ. of Chicago; and 

 John H. Long, prof. of physiological chemistry, Northwestern 

 Univ., which will undertake the examinations of ice, its source, trans- 

 portation, delivery, etc., and certify the results when found satis- 

 factory. — Dr. C.-E. A. Winslow (Col. of the City of N. Y.). has 

 been appointed chairman of a Commission on the Experimental 

 Study of Ventilation Problems, with an appropriation of $50,000 to 



