BIOCHEMICAL NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENT 



EDITORI AL 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, 428; appointments, 429; honors, 431; 

 lectures and addresses, 432; medals, 433; prizes, 434; associations, societies, etc., 

 434; miscellaneous items, 435. 



(II). War Notes: Necrology, 443; university items, 444; booze bombs, 444; 

 honors, 445; notes on the sanitation of military quarters and battlefields, 446; 

 food notes, 447; medical notes, 450; miscellaneous items, 453. 



(III). Col. Univ. Biochem. Assoc: (i) General notes— honors, 453; appoint- 

 ments, 454; dental graduates, 454; associations and societies, 454; miscellaneous 

 items, 455; (2) Proc. of the Assoc— 23"^ (sixth annual) meeting, 456; (3) Co- 

 lumbia Biochem. Dep't — appointments, 456; associations and societies, 457; ad- 

 dresses and reports, 457; awards of higher degrees, 458; summer session, 459; 

 miscellaneous items, 459. 



I. GENERAL 



Necrology.^ — A. Arnaud, who occupied the chair of ehem. at 

 the Museum of Nat Hist., Paris; distinguished for work in ehem. 

 and pharmacol. 



Paul Ehrlich, director, Royal Inst, for Exp. Therapeutics, 

 Frank fort. 



Erich Harnack, director, Inst, of Pharmacol., Halle. 



A. Sheridan Lea, formerly Univ. lecturer in physiol., Cam- 

 bridge; well known for his researches in physiol. ehem., and his 

 " Chemical basis of the animal body." 



Friedrich Löffler, director, Robert Koch Inst, for Infec. Dis- 

 eases, Berlin; discoverer of the diphtheria bacillus. 



John U. Nef, head of the dep't of ehem., Univ. of Chicago; 

 eminent for his contributions to organie ehem. 



Albert Plaut, vice-p., N. Y. Coli, of Pharmaey. 



Dr. Proskauer, director, Berlin Bureau of Food and Trades 



1 War necrology, page 443. 



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