BIOCHEMICAL NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENT 

 EDITORIAL SUB-COMMITTEE: 



Benjamin Horowitz, 



William J. Gies, Hattie L. Heft, Joseph S. Hepburn, 

 Paul E. Howe, Edgar G. Miller, Jr., William A. Perlzweig 



Contents. — (I). General: Necrology, 242; resignations and retirements, 

 243 ; appointments, 243 ; honors, 245 ; lectures and addresses, 246 ; grants, 248 ; 

 prize, 249; medals, 249; journalistic, 249; funds and endowments, 249; new labo- 

 ratories, 250; associations, societies, etc., 250; miscellaneous items, 252. 



(II). War Notes: Necrology, 252; awards of the Iren Gross, 252; univer- 

 sity items, 252 ; chemical items, 255 ; miscellaneous items, 256. 



(III). Col. Univ. Biochem. Assoc: (i) General notes — appointments, 257; 

 associations and societies, 258; addresses and lectures, 259; miscellaneous items, 

 260; (2) Proc. of the Assoc. — i8th-20th meetings, 261; first quarterly informal 

 dinner, 261 ; fourth annual dinner, 261 ; 22d meeting, 266; (3) Golumbia Biochem. 

 Dep't — appointments, 267; associations and societies, 268; addresses and reports, 

 268; miscellaneous items, 268. 



I. GENERAL 



Necrology. — Angelo Celli, prof. of Hygiene, Univ. of Rome, 

 chief of the Nat'l Board of Health, Italy, and Senator. — Wm. L. 

 Dudley, dean and prof. of ehem., Vanderbilt Univ. — Rudolph Em- 

 merich, prof. of hygiene and bacteriol, Univ. of Munich. — L. von 

 Frankl-Hochwart, prof. of path. of the nervous System, Univ. of 

 Vienna, pioneer in research in neuropathol., internal secretions, etc. 

 — W. H. Gaskell, univ. lecturer in physiol., Cambridge Univ. — 

 Karl Liebermann, prof. of organic ehem., Berlin. — T. VVesley Mills, 

 emeritus prof. of physiol., McGill Univ. — G. R. Mines, prof. of 

 physiol., McGill Univ. — Chas. S. Minot, prof. of comp, anat., Har- 

 vard Univ. — Geo. L. Peabody, prof. of materia med. and therap., 

 Columbia Univ. (1887-1903). — Charles Perier, pres. French Acad. 

 of Med. — /. Rosenthal, prof. of physiol, Erlangen. — Daniel E. 

 Salmon, first chief, U. S. Bur. of Animal Industry (1884-1906). 



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