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gren, The production of light by animals; Feb, 4: Dr. Carl L. Ais- 

 berg, Moisture in agricultural products. 



N. Y. Acad. of Sciences, Mar. 22 : Prof. Raymond Dodge, In- 

 cidence of the effect of moderate doses of alcohol on the nervous 

 System. 



N. Y. Bot. Garden, Oct. 10, '14: Dr. /. H. Barnhart, Carnivo- 

 rous plants; Nov. 14: Dr. H. H. Rusby, Influence of radium on the 

 production of field crops ; April 3 : Sources of quinin. 



Physical Soc, London, Oct. 23 : Sir /. /. Thompson, Ionisation. 



Princeton Chem. Soc, Feb. 25 : Prof. Chas. Baskerville, Phys- 

 ical chemistry and anesthesia. 



Rockefeiler Inst. The Cosmopolitan Club held its eighth meeting 

 Dec. 14, '14, at Columbia Univ. in the morning, at the Rockefeiler 

 Inst, in the af ternoon. ( See pp. 259, 268. ) At the afternoon session 

 addresses and demonstrations were made by Dr. D. D. Van Slyke 

 and Mr. G. E. Cullen, Determination of urea; Dr. F. C. McLean, 

 Effect of disease on elimination of urea and chlorids as measured by 

 Ambard's coefficient; Dr. P. A. Levene, Vitamins; Dr. John Auer, 

 Experimental intradural injections of therapeutic sera. 



Royal Institution, Jan. and Feb. : Prof. C. S. Sherrington, six 

 lectures, The muscle in the service of the nerve. 



Univ. of Rochester, Nov. 9: Dr. P. F. Trowbridge, Some prob- 

 lems of nutrition. 



Washington Univ., Assoc. and Med. School; Dr. Graham Lusk — 

 Dec. 30: The cost of ready-to-serve food; Dec. 31: The basis of 

 animal calorimetry ; Jan. 2 : Metabolism in diabetes. 



Prof. /. C. Böse, prof. of botany, Presidency Coli., Calcutta, 

 India, has recently completed a world tour, through Europe and 

 America, during which he delivered many lectures on the irritability 

 of plants. Many of the lectures were given from biochem. stand- 

 points. Prof. Bose's book on this general subject was referred to 

 in the last issue of the Biochem. Bull. (1914, iii, p. 540). 



Grants. Austrian Acad. of Sciences — Prof. v. Janregg, $1,- 

 250: research on the etiology of goiter; Prof. Honigschmidt, $600: 

 work on the atomic weight of the radium elements ; Prof. Netolit- 

 sky, $375 : study of the history of food stuffs. 



Paris Acad. of Sciences, Bonaparte Fund; grants (francs) for 

 1914. — Pierre Breteau, 2000; use of palladium in analysis and in 



