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The President of the Assoc, Dr. A. J. Goldfarb, was the toast- 

 master. The Speakers who preceded Dr. Meltzer on the informal 

 program were Drs. W. H. Howell, Jacques Loeb, L. B. Mendel, 

 F. H. McCrudden and Chas. Baskerville. Drs. E. G. Conklin, Simon 

 Flexner and Graham Lusk had accepted invitations to address the 

 Assoc. informally, but illness of themselves or near relatives made 

 their attendance impossible. 



Just before Dr. Meltzer gave the address of the evening, Dr. 

 Benjamin Horowitz, seconded by Dr. E. G. Miller, Jr., nominated 

 Dr. Meltzer for honorary membership in the Biochem. Assoc. In 

 his nominating speech Dr. Horowitz said that the spirit in which he 

 made the nomination was indicated by the following quotation f rom 

 the official letter in which the Assoc. conveyed its invitation to 

 Dr. Meltzer to be the guest of honor at this dinner : 



. . . You have had a f ar greater influence on us than you have ever 

 imagined. Your splendid fidelity to your scientific Ideals during the 

 period when research facilities were lacking, and discouragement met 

 you everywhere, has been an inspiring and an ennobling example. 

 Your loftiness of purpose and your consecration to the pursuit of truth, 

 as well as your industry, perseverance, thoroughness, Imagination, 

 fertility and constructive achievements, have been not only a revelation 

 of idealism, and of power and service at their best, but also have been 

 productive of practical results where you least expected to find them. 

 They have had pronounced eflFects generally and they will continue to 

 induce them. They have induced in us, for example, the earnest 

 desire to emulate your personal and professional qualities ; to achieve, 

 if possible, as worthily, at least in spirit ; and to band on ' down the 

 line' cumulative influences for good. 



. . . We often think that as our years increase we are like the 

 mountain climber who, as he mounts, notices less and less of the 

 details in the view about him and regards more and more the outstand- 

 ing big things. The Spiritual are the big things; and what can be 

 larger than the realization that one's personality, example, fidelity, 

 achievement and idealism have not only won from a younger genera- 

 tion its admiration, esteem and gratitude, but have inspired it to its 

 loftiest purposes for its own day and to its worthiest aspirations for 

 the generations to succeed it. If such a reahzation can give you the 

 satisfaction that we think it must, be assured that your splended influ- 

 ence on the Columbia biochemical family will be an abiding influence 



