SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS OF THE COLUMBIA UNI- 



VERSITY BIOCHEMICAL ASSOCIATION, AT 



THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND 



SURGEONS, NEW YORK^ 



-PROCEEDINGS REPORTED BY THE SECRETARY, 



EDGAR G. MILLER, Jr. 

 L EIGHTEENTH (FIFTH ANNUAL) MEETING 



The eighteenth scientific meeting of the Columbia Univ. Bio- 

 chem. Assoc. was held in the Library of the Columbia Med. Seh., at 

 8:15 p. M., on June i, 1914. Abstracts of the papers are presented 

 here (pages 194, 203) in two groups: {A) Abstracts of papers on 

 research by non-resident members^ and (B) abstracts of papers fr am 

 the Columbia Biochem. Dep't and affiliated laboratories. The ap- 

 pended summary facilitates reference to the abstracts (i 33-1 51).' 



A SUMMARY OF THE NAMES OF THE AUTHORS AND OF THE 

 TITLES OF THE SUCCEEDING ABSTRACTS (133-IS1). 



A J. Bronfenbrenner, W. T. Mitchell, 



J. Bronfenbrenner and J. Rockman. JR-. »"d M. J. Schlesinger. Studies 



A note on the use of purified anti- on so-called protective ferments. l. 



gen of Besredka in the serum diag- The sensitization of substratum for 



nosis of tuberculosis. (133) *^^ Abderhalden test. (136) 



J. Bronfenbrenner and J. Rockman. I- J- Kligler. Observations on the 



The diagnostic value of the Landau metabolism of Bacillus vulgaris. 



test for Syphilis. (134) (i37) 



J. Bronfenbrenner and J. Rockman. I. J. Kligler and V. E. Levine. The 



Further studies on Besredka tuber- Scheurlen-Klett selenium reaction in 



culin. (135) the diphtheria group. (138) 



1 Scientific meetings are held regularly on the first Fridays of December, 

 February, and April, and on the first Monday in June. Proceedings of the six- 

 teenth and seventeenth meetings were published in the last number of the 

 Biochemical Bulletin, 1914, iii, pp. 454 and 465. 



2 Members of the Association who were not officially connected with the 

 Columbia Biochemical Department when the researches were conducted. 



3 Previous abstracts were published in the Biochemical Bulletin : 1-44, 

 1912, ii, p. 156; 45-62, 1913, ii, p. 285; 63-72, 1913, ii, p. 452; 73-85, 1913, ü, P- 

 462; 86-107, 1913, ii, P- 541; 108-119, 1914, iii, p. 302; 120-126, 1914, iii, p. 454; 

 127-132, 1914, iii, p. 465. See also pages 210, 224 and 228. 



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