1913] Columbia Biochemical Department 5^1 



The department was honored during the year by the return of 

 Prof. John S. Adriance (WilHams Col.), who reviewed the work 

 required of first year students of medicine. 



Mr. A. T. Cameron (Univ. of Manitoba) was a welcome visitor 

 in the laboratories of the department during the months of May and 

 June, and an auditor at some of the Conferences at the close of the 

 academic year in May. 



Prof. Gies recently resigned his membership in the Board of 

 Trustees of Irving Col. for Women (Mechanicsburg, Pa.), of 

 which he had been a member since 1900. He was recently reelected 

 an alumni representative in the Board of Trustees of Gettysburg 

 Col. for a term of six years. 



Mr. Arthur M. Buswell has been awarded a university fellow- 

 ship in chemistry for I9i3-'i4; Mr. Frank R. Eider has been 

 appointed alternate. 



Mr. Guy West Wilson, lately of the N. C. Agric. Exper. Sta., 

 and, during the past year, research scholar at the N. Y. Botan. 

 Garden, has recently been appointed a special agent of the U. S. 

 Bureau of Plant Industry for the study of the relation of the 

 chestnut blight fungus to tannin and other plant products, at Rut- 

 gers College, New Brunswick, N. J. 



On May 11, Dr. Max Kahn feil headlong from a moving street 

 car. There was no internal turmoil to account for this mishap 

 (official). His prompt recovery was very gratifying to all his 

 associates. 



Prof. Gies has been requested by the N. Y. Sabbath Committee 

 to direct, under its auspices, a study of the physiological value, if 

 any, of the weekly day of rest, entirely apart from religious or 

 preconceived notions, and wholly from a scientific Standpoint. The 

 work will be inaugurated in the fall. 



[Makes a noise like the beginning of a reform movement in this laboratory. 

 Printer' s devil.] 



