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the Sect. of Derived Products, in the Forest-Products Lab., Madison; 

 and prof. of the ehem. of forest products. 



West. Reserve Univ., Med. Seh. : Dr. G. E. Simpson, instr. in 

 organ. ehem. and demonstr. of biochem. 



Honors. Honorary degrees. Dr. Simon Flexner, Sc.D., 

 Brown Univ.; on the occasion of the iSOth anniv. of its foundation. 

 — Dr. E. W. Hilgard (1874-1906, prof. of agric. and dean, Coli, of 

 Agric, Univ. Cal.), LL.D., Univ. of Cal. — Conferred at Charter 

 Day exercises, Univ. of Pittsburgh: Feb. 26; LL.D.: Prof 's Ira 

 Remsen, T. W. Richards, E. W. Morley, A. A. Noyes and /. U. 

 Nef; D.Sc: /. /. Abel; D.Ch.: E. F. Smith, and Dr. Chas. L. 

 Parsons. 



Dinners. Prof. W. B. Cannon v^as guest of honor at a ban- 

 quet following the ann. meeting of the Syracuse Univ. Chapter, 

 Alpha Omega Alpha Fraternity, March 18. He delivered an ad- 

 dress on The psychology of martial emotions. — The past and present 

 members of the staff of the Rockefeiler Inst, for Med. Research gave 

 a dinner, at Delmonico's, to Dr. Simon Flexner, Oct. 16, '14 in cele- 

 bration of the loth anniv. of the opening of the laboratories of the 

 Inst, under his direction. — A complimentary dinner was given, Jan. 

 14, at the Chemists's Club (N. Y.), in honor of Dr. C. A. Mayo, 

 Pres't of the Amer. Pharmaceut. Assoc. — Dr. S. J. Meltzer was 

 the guest of honor at the 4th ann. dinner of the Columbia Univ. 

 Biochem. Assoc. (See page 261). — Dr. Harvey W. Wiley was the 

 guest of honor at a dinner of the Twilight Club, at the Hotel Mc- 

 Alpin, N. Y., Jan. 9. Drs. Haven Emerson and Woods Hutchinson 

 were among the Speakers. 



JouRNALiSTic. Vol. 37 of the Amer. Jour. of Physiol. has been 

 dedicated to Prof. Wm. T. Porter, in terms of the following tribute, 

 which appears with Dr. Porter's portrait in the lirst number (April 

 issue) : 



" To William Townsend Porter : When physiological science 

 in America was searching for a suitable medium for the publication 

 of the increasing Output of its laboratories and when no Solution of 

 the vexing problem seemed at band, William Townsend Porter pro- 

 posed the establishment of a new Journal, to be called The American 

 Journal of Physiology, and offered to undertake its administration. 

 The American Physiological Society contributed its name and its 



