i8o Federation of American Biological Societies [March^ 



Next MEETING. The next meeting of the Federation will be 

 held, 191 5, in Boston, at the Harvard Medical School. 



II. AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY: 

 TWENTY SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING 



A. J. Carlson, Secretary 



The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Physiol. Soc. was 

 held in the Physiol. laboratories of the Washington Univ. Med. 

 Seh., St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 28-31, 1914. Fifty-six of the Society's 

 208 members were present. Five scientific sessions were held, 

 three of these being Joint meetings with the other societies of the 

 Federation. At the two independent meetings the f ollowing papers 

 were presented. 



Scientific program. First Session. Monday, Dec. 28, 2.00 

 p. m. F. S. Lee and D. J. Edwards: The action of certain atmos- 

 pheric conditions on blood-pressure and heart-rate. — C. H. Dallwig, 

 A. C. Rolls and A. S. Loevenhart: The relation between the eryth- 

 rocytes and the hemoglobin to the oxygen of the respired air. — /. A. 

 E. Eyster and W. J. Meek: The path of conduction for the cardiac 

 impulse between the sino-auricular and the aurico-ventricular nodes. 

 — C. Brooks and A. B. Luckhardt: An experimental and critical 

 study of blood-pressure methods. — F. C. Becht and H. McGuiganr 

 Mechanical factors in the flow of cerebro-spinal fluid. — J. F. Mc- 

 Clendon: Oxidation in the erythrocytes of the goose (with note on 

 a baro-thermostat). — Katherine R. Drinker and C. K. Drinker: The 

 efifect of rapid and progressive hemorrhage upon the factors of co- 

 agulation. — S. Simpson and A. T. Rasmussen: The effect of para- 

 thyroidectomy on blood-coagulation time in the dog. — F. C. Mc- 

 Lean: On the concentration of sodium chlorid in the serum and its 

 relation to the rate of excretion in normal and diabetic men. — W. H. 

 Spencer, M. E. Rehfuss and P. B. Hawk: Does regurgitation regu- 

 late the acidity of gastric juice? 



Second SESSION. TuESDAY, Dec. 29, 9.00 a. m. T. S. Githens 

 and S. J. Meltzer: Apnea vera without previous excess of respira- 

 tion, and its dependence upon the vagus nerves. — M. L. Fleisher 

 and Leo Loeb: The lytic action of tissues on blood coagulum. — Ida 

 H. Hyde: The influence of light on the development of vorticella. 



