57^ Biochcmical Neivs, Notes and Comment [July 



Bronfen Brenner (West Penn. Hosp. Pittsburgh), Russell L. Cecil 

 (Presbyter. Hosp., N. Y.), H. H. Janeway (City Hosp., N. Y.), 

 Edivards A. Park (Johns Hopkins Univ.). 



Personalia. Prof. A. R. Bliss (Birmingham Med. Coli. ; Grad. 

 Seh. o£ Med., Univ. of Alabama) has been elected second vice- 

 president of the Alabama Sect. of the Amer. Chem. Soc. — Dr. 

 E. D. Clark has been reelected to the editorial board of the Bull, 

 of the Torrey Botan. Club. — The Board of Managers of the Van- 

 derbilt Clinic (Columbia Univ.) have recently issued, in pamphlet 

 form, the interesting "Report of the day camp of the Vanderbilt 

 Clinic of the Coli, of Phys. and Surg.," by Dr. F. Morris Class, 

 Attending Physician. — On July 23 an expedition for the study of 

 marine biology, under the auspices of the Carnegie Inst., Wash., 

 set sail from San Francisco for Thursday Island, Torres Straits, 

 Queensland, Australia. Dr. E. Nezvton Harvey was a member of 

 the party. — The med. col. of Phila. gave a reception, April 30, at 

 the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, in lionor of Prof. Philip B. Hawk, 

 new member of the faculty of Jefferson Med. Col. — Prof. B. E. 

 Livingston is the managing editor of Physiological Researches, the 

 first issue of which has just appeared. He is also a member of a 

 special committee of Sect. G (Botany) of the Amer. Assoc. Adv. 

 Sei., to consider affiliation with the Botanical Soc. of Amer. — The 

 Univ. of Texas gave a " One-Week's School of Home Economics," 

 from Feb. 10-15. Among the lectures and demonstrations v^ere: 

 Nutritive value of foods; the importance of the menu, by Miss 

 Anna Richardson and Some problems of house building; sanitary 

 Problems of the home; the house and how to plan it, by Prof. Mary 

 E. Gearing. — Dr. Winifred J. Robinson has been appointed an 

 adviser for women at the summer school of the Univ. of Wisconsin. 

 — Mr. Carl A. Schwärze's work (N. J. Agric. Exp. Sta.) on the 

 relation of enzymes to " peach yellows " and " little peach " is pro- 

 gressing favorably. He is planning to study an enzymic disorder 

 of the tomato plant: " filiform-leaf tomato." — Dr. F. J. Seaver has 

 relinquished his editorship of the Jour. of the N. Y. Botan. Garden 

 and will devote more of his time to Mycologia. — ^We are glad to 

 note that Prof. E. A. Spitzka has returned from his trip abroad, 

 with his health fully restored (p. 485). 



