PAPERS OF BIOCHEMICAL INTEREST, PRESENTED 



BEFORE THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR 



THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, AND 



AFFILIATED SOCIETIES, PHILA., 



DEC. 28, 1914-JAN. I, 1915 



Selected by 

 JOSEPH S. HEPBURN 



American Association for the Advancement of Science. 



General session. — E. B. Wilson: Some aspects of progress in mod- 

 ern zoology (annual address of the retiring president). 



Section C (Chemistry). — P. A. Maignen: Chemical preserva- 

 tion of manure. — C. P. Fox: Character of the glutinous contents of 

 the fruit of the American mistletoe. 



Joint session of Sections C and K, and the Society of 

 American Bacteriologists. — C. L. Aisher g: Theories of fermen- 

 lation (vice-presidential address, Section C). — C. S. Hudson: En- 

 zyme action. — A. I. Kendall: Role of microorganisms in the intes- 

 tinal canal. — F. P. Gorham: Use of bacteria in the treatment of 

 textile fibres. — C. E. Marshall: Micro-organisms in their application 

 to agriculture. 



Section F (Zoology) and American Society of Zoologists. 

 — E. P. Churchill: The absorption of fat by fresh-water mussels. — 

 G. A. Baitsell: On a certain fibrin reaction which occurs in living 

 cultures of frog tissues. — E. N. Harvey: Studies on the phospho- 

 rescent substance of the fire-fly (p. 212). 



Section G (Botany) and the Botanical Society of Amer- 

 ica. — /, C. Böse: Plant autographs. 



Section I (Social and Economic Science). — L. F. Bishop: 

 The bearing of diet on efficiency in brain workers after forty. 



Section K (Physiology and Experimental Medicine). — 

 l^heo. Hough: The Classification of nervous reactions (vice-presiden- 

 tial address). 



Section K and Society of American Bacteriologists; Joint 

 Session. Symposium on Ventilation. — A. C. Abbott: Air-borne 



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