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certain constituents. — F. D. Zeman, Jeronie Kohn and P. E. Howe: 

 Variations in factors associated with acidity of human urine during 

 a seven-day fast and during subsequent non-protein and normal 

 feeding periods. 



Papers read by title. Jacob Rosenhloom: The effect of in- 

 travenous injections of radium on the urinary nitrogen and sulfur 

 partition. — Jacob Rosenhloom: The effect of external apphcation 

 of radium on the metabohsm of a Cancer patient. — P. H. Mitchell: 

 Carbohydrate metabohsm in the oyster. — Arnos W. Peters: Studies 

 on the pathology of the feeble-minded : (I) The glycosuric reaction 

 and its relation to their pathology. — G. W. Raisiss and H. Dubin: 

 A method for the determination of benzoic acid in urine. — G. IV. 

 Rai^iss and H. Dubin: The synthesis of hippuric acid in the animal 

 body. 



Executive proceedings. New members : Olaf Bergeim, Jef- 

 ferson Med. Coli.; Alex. T. Canieron, Univ. Manitoba; G. H. A. 

 Clowes, Gratwick Lab., Buffalo, N. Y. ; B. M. Duggar, Missouri 

 Botan. Garden; Cyrus H. Fiske, Harvard Med. Seh.; R. A. Hall, 

 Univ. Minn. ; C. G. Imrie, Univ. Toronto; Benjamin Kramer, State 

 Univ. Iowa; A. Bruce Macallum, Jr., Univ. Toronto; /. F. McClen- 

 don, Univ. Minn. ; /. Luden Morris, Washington Univ. Med. Seh. ; 

 Max Morse, Univ. Wis. ; V. H. Mottram, McGill Univ. ; C. F. Nel- 

 son, Univ. Kansas ; E. L. Ross, Northwestern Univ. Med. Seh. ; E. 

 C. Shorey, U. S. Dep't of Agric. 



Officers-elect : President — Walter Jones; Vice-president — 

 Carl L. Aisberg; Secretary — P. A. S ha ff er; Treasurer — D. D. Van 

 Slyke; Additional members of the Council — Otto Polin, Graham 

 Lusk, L. B. Mendel; Nominating Commit. — /. /. Abel, S. R. Bene- 

 dict, H. D. Dakin, P. B. Hawk, J. J. R. Macleod, E. V. McCollum 

 V. C. Myers, T. B. Osborne, A. N. Richards. 



Attendance. J. G. Adami, S. Amberg, L. Baumann, H. C. 

 Bradley, H. J. Corper, C. H. Fiske, W. E. Garrey, A. D. Hirsch- 

 felder, R. A. Hall, P. E. Howe, E. C. Kendali, B. Kramer, A. S. 

 Loevenhart, G. Lusk, J. J. R. Macleod, V. H. Mottram, H. Mc- 

 Guigan, J. L. Morris, C. H. Neilson, E. W. Rockwood, P. A. 

 Shaffer, T. Sollmann, C. Voegtlin, H. G. Wells, R. T. Woodyatt. 



