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vestigations of the metabolism of fishes, conducted in the N. Y. Aqua- 

 rium and Col. Univ. Biochem. Lab. 



West. Penn. Hosp. (Pittsburgh) : Dr. Max Kahn, biol. chemist, 

 to succeed Dr. Jacob Rosenbloom, resigned. 



From the BODY OF ADVANCED STUDENTS. U. S. Burcau of Mines 

 (Wash.) : Gustav Egloff, assis. to Dr. W. F. Rittman, discoverer of a 

 new process for the production of benzene and toluene, and of in- 

 creased yields of gasoline from crude petroleum. (See page 253.) 



Univ. of Calif . : Agnes F. Morgan, assis. prof . of nutrition. 



Appointments to the staff. Katherine R. Coleman (Turck Re- 

 search Lab.), assis. (Teach. Coli.) ; research assis. ("P. and S."). — 

 Helen C. Coombs, assis. (Teach. Coli.). 



Associations amd societies. Officers of the dep't. Amer. 

 Chem. Soc. : Robert Bersohn, Tula L. Harkey and Dr. E. G. Miller, 

 Jr., members. 



N. Y. Acad. of Sciences : Dr. V. E. Levine, member. 



Advanced students. Amer. Chem. Soc. : O. C. Bowes and Alex- 

 ander Lowy, members. 



Addresses and reports. Amer. Chem. Soc, Phila. Sect., Dec. 

 17, '14: Dr. Wm. J. Gies, Chemical investigation of the cause and 

 prevention of dental caries. 



First Dist. Dental Soc. (N. Y.), Nov. 2, '14: Dr. Wm. J. Gies, 

 Annual report on research in dental chemistry — (i) Further study 

 of the effects of acid on natural extracted teeth (with Drs. A. P. 

 Lothrop, H. W. Gillett, C. C. Linton, A. H. Merritt and H. L. 

 Wheeler) ; (2) Distribution of trypan blue, after injection into liv- 

 ing albino rats (with Dr. E. G. Miller, Jr.). 



Nu Sigma Nu Alumni Assoc, Yale Club, N. Y., Nov. 24, '14: 

 Dr. Wm. J. Gies, Dental caries. 



The Cosmopolitan Clinical Club held its eighth meeting, Dec. 

 14, '14, at Columbia Univ. [Crocker Lab. (9.30-10.45 a. m.) and 

 "P and S" (11-12.30 p. m.)] and at the Rockefeiler Inst. (2.30- 

 5.00 p. m.). The first meeting at " P and S " was held in this lab. 

 (11-11.30 a. m.), and was addressed by Dr. Gies, by invitation, on 

 Dental caries. (See page 259.) 



Miscellaneous items. Dr. E. G. Miller, Jr., has been cooperat- 

 ing (since Jan.) with Drs. Gies and Howe, in the editorial manage- 

 ment of the biochem. dep't of Chemical Abstracts. 



