574 Biochemkal News, Notes and Comment [July 



Dr. F. G. Hopkins, reader in ehem. physiology, Univ. of Cam- 

 bridge, has been appointed a member of the Med. Research Commit. 

 under the National Health Insurance Act, Eng. 



Dr. Howard B. Lewis, formerly assis. in physiol. chemistry, 

 Sheff. Sei. Seh., Yale Univ., has been appointed one of the first 

 ineumbents of the Seessel Fellowships for the encouragement of 

 research in biological subjects at Yale Univ. 



The names of Drs. Jacques Loeh (Rockefeiler Inst.) and A. P. 

 Mathews (Univ. of Chicago) are among those constituting the 

 latest official list of Trustees of the Marine Biolog. Lab., Woods 

 Hole, Mass. 



Prof. Graham Lusk is a member of the Board of Managers of 

 the Biolog. Lab. of the Brooklyn Inst, of Arts and Sei., Cold 

 Spring Harbor, L. I. 



Dr. W. A. Murrill, assis. director of the N. Y. Botan. Garden, 

 is in Europe, studying types of fungi and the efifeet of tar dust on 

 the trees planted on roads wliere the surfaee binding is of tar. 



Prof. Howard S. Reed, of the Virginia Polyteeh. Inst., who 

 spent the year in Europe, was a delegate to the Tenth Intern. Congr. 

 of Agric, in Ghent, June 8 to 12. 



Dr. H. M. Richards (Columbia Univ.) has been elected a vice- 

 president of the Torrey Botan. Club and reeleeted an editor of tb.e 

 Bidl. of the Torrey Bot. Club. He is one of the three editors of 

 Physiological Researches (see p. 576). 



Dr. Victor C. Vaughan was recently reeleeted president of the 

 Mich. State Board of Health. 



II. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BIOCHEMICAL ASSOCIATION 



I. General notes 



Marriage: On June 19, Miss Charlotte Cecil Marie Verlage 

 and Dr. Marston Lovell Hamlin (Harriman Research Lab., Roose- 

 velt Hosp., N. Y.) 



Appointments.^ Dr. Louis E. Bisch (N. Y. Post-Grad. Med. 

 Seh.), leeturer in edueational psychology, Teachers Col., Columbia 

 Univ. — Dr. /. /. Bronfen Brenner (Rockefeller Inst.), director of 



2 See footnote, page 568. 



