58o Biochemical News, Notes and Comment [July 



chemical lab. at the Med. Seh. is open daily for research, and will 

 continue so throughout the summen 



Investigators. The workers named below have been engaged 

 in research, in the biochemical laboratoi-y at the medical school, at 

 various times during the vacation : Louis Berman, A. M. Buswell, 

 Arthur D. Dryfoos, Walter H. Eddy, Mary L. Edzvard, L. L. Falke, 

 Helen Gavin, William J. Gies, Mark J. Gottlieb, Tula L. Harkey, 

 Max Kahn, I. J. Kligler, W. M. Kraus, Alfred P. Lothrop, Her- 

 man O. Mosenthal, William A. Perlzweig, Nathan Rosenthal, Oscar 

 M. Schloss, Emily C. Seaman, A. W. Thomas, M, K. Thornton, 

 William Weinberger, Charles Weisman, G. H. Worthing. 



Miscellaneous items. Prof. Gies is a member of the third sec- 

 tional committee of the Third Internat. Gong, of Refrigeration to 

 be held in Washington and Chicago, Sept. 15-24, 19 13. He was 

 one of the Speakers at the annual banquet of the First District 

 Dental Soc. of the State of N. Y., at the Hotel Astor, Jan. 18. He 

 addressed the Harlem Dental Soc, April 24, on the Prevention of 

 dental caries. On May 9 he presented, at the 45th annual meeting 

 of the Dental Soc. of the State of N. Y., the report of the Research 

 Committee, embodying the results of a further investigation of the 

 origin and physiological significance of salivary sulfocyanate (under 

 the auspices of the Research Committee), with the Cooperation of 

 Prof. C. C. Lieb, Drs. Max Kahn and Edgar G. Miller, Jr., and 

 Mr. Arthur Knudson. At the conclusion of his report, and pur- 

 suant to a recommendation in the president's annual address, Prof. 

 Gies was elected an honorary member of the Dental Soc. of the 

 State of N. Y. He has been invited to continue to direct the soci- 

 ety's study of dental caries. At his Suggestion the title of The 

 Jonr. of the Allied Societies^ has been changed to The Jour. of the 

 Allied Dental Societies (1913, viii : Mar.). 



Miss Jean Broadhurst is utilizing a year's leave of absence in 

 Special study, at Ithaca, in plant physiology and bacteriology. She 

 has received from the Torrey Botanical Club a grant of $200 from 

 the Esther Hermann Fund to assist her in an investigation of 

 bacteria in milk. Miss Broadhurst was recently reelected one of 

 the editors of the Bull, of the Torrey Bot. Club. 



^Jour. All. Soc, 1912, vii, pp. 408 and 507. 



