i88 Federation of American Biological Societies [March, 



G. H. Whipple and C. W. Hooper: Studies in bile pigment excre- 

 tion. — C. W. Duval: Further studies upon the experimental produc- 

 tion of leprosy in the lower animal. — E. L. Opie and L. B. Alford: 

 The influenae of diet upon the progress of a bacterial infection. — G. 

 W. Crile, F. W. Hitchings and /. B. Austin: Pathological lesions 

 wrought by certain amino-acids, by skatol and indol, by iodin, 

 foreign proteins, and certain organic acids, — and the control of the 

 action of these agents by morphia. 



Executive proceedings. Officers-elect : President — Theo- 

 bald Smith; Vice-President — G. H. Whipple; Secretary-treasurer — 

 Peyton Rons; Councillor — R. M. Pearce vice Harvey Cushing, term 

 expired. 



New Members: James B. Murphy, Rockefeiler Inst.; L. G. 

 Rowntree, Johns Hopkins Hosp. ; Richard Strong, Harvard Med. 

 Seh. ; M. C. Winternitz, Johns Hopkins Med. Seh. 



ADDENDUM 



The following papers of biochemical interest were read at the 

 thirty-first meeting of the Amer. Assoc. of Anatomists, which was 

 held at the Washington Univ. Med. Seh., in St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 

 28-30, 1914, in conjunction with the Federation of Amer. Soc. for 

 Exp. Biology: 



C. M. Jackson: Effects of acute and chronic inanition upon the 

 relative weights of the various organs and System of adult albino 

 rats. — C. M. Jackson: Changes in young albino rats held at constant 

 body-weight by under feeding for various periods. — R. M. Strong: 

 Further observations on the origin of melanin pigments. — G. W. 

 Bartelmes: Some efifects of mammalian thyroid and thymus glands 

 upon the development of amphibian larvae. — Brest on Kyes: Morpho- 

 logical evidence of intracellular destruction of red blood corpuscles. 

 — Montrose T. Burrows: An attempted analysis of growth. — R. M. 

 Strong: Microscopic slides showing feather germs with dermal pig- 

 ment. — Eduard Uhlenhuth: Is function and functional Stimulus a 

 factor in producing and preserving morphological structures? — 

 E. I. Werber: Is defective and monstrous development due to paren- 

 tal metabolic toxemia? — /. F. Gudernatsch: Feeding experiments 

 on rats. 



Laboratory of Biological Chemistry of Columbia University. 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. 



