5/8 Biochemkal News, Notes and Comment [July 



The Assoc. adjoumed at a late hour, after a very happy and 

 stimulating meeting. 



Alfred P. Lothrop, Secretary 



3, Columbia Biochemical Department 



Marriage: On June 18, Miss Harriet Beckwith Rinaker and 

 Prof. Paul E. Howe. 



Appointments from the staff. Dr. Nellis B. F oster (assoc), 

 instr. in medicine, Cornell Univ. Med. Seh., with a laboratory in the 

 N. Y. Hosp. — Dr. Max Kahn (assoc), Consulting physician in 

 dietetics, Beth Israel Hosp., N. Y. He will continue as assoc. here 

 and as director of the chemical lab. of the Beth Israel Hosp. — Dr. 

 Louis E. Wise (instr.), instr. in chemistry, Univ. of Missouri. — 

 Dr. Edgar G. Miller, Jr. (assis.), instr. of physiol. chemistry, Univ. 

 of Illinois (Med. Seh., Chicago).^ — Mr. Arthur Kmidson (assist), 

 chemist, Turck Inst., N. Y. (p. 571). — Dr. Joseph S. Hephurn 

 (univ. fellow), assis. chemist, U. S. Dep'tof Agric (Food Research 

 Lab., Phila.). 



Appointments to, and promotions in, the staff. Dr. Max 



Kahn (instr.), associate. — Dr. Frederic G. Goodridge (assis.), 

 instructor. — Mr. W. A. Perlzweig, assistant. — Mr. Victor E. Levine, 

 laboratory assistant (summer Session, 1913). 



Laboratory at Bellevue Hospital. During the past academic 

 year Prof. Gies, aided by Dr. Edgar G. Miller, Jr., equipped a small 

 chemical lab. in the patholog. dep't of Bellevue Hosp., and con- 

 ducted research and routine work there in colläboration with Drs, 

 Charles Norris and Cyrus W. Field. Mr. Grover Tracy assisted 

 in some of the work. It is planned to extend this Service as the 

 needs of the hospital may determine. 



Members-elect of societies. Amer. Soc Biol. Chem. : Dr. 

 Alfred P. Lothrop; Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. : Prof. Paul. E. Howe; 

 Amer. Chem. Soc. : Dr. Walter H. Eddy; Sigma Xi : Robert P. 



^ Dr. Miller had been appointed prof. of physiol. chemistry in the new med. 

 school of the Univ. of the South, Nashville, Tenn., but Mr. Carnegie's gift of 

 $1,000,000 to the med. school of Vanderbilt Univ., in the same city, induced the 

 Trustees of the Univ. of the South to abandon their med. school. 



