454 Biochemical News, Notes and Commenf [June-September 



Med., Baylor Univ., have organized the Sillman Biochemical So- 

 ciety, which is named in honor of Prof. Maxwell Sillman. The 

 society's object is the study of the relationships between the med. 

 Sciences and chemistry, and to stimulate biochem. investigation in 

 general. The officers for the next academic year are : Pres., W. W. 

 Looney; vice-p., H. L. Farmer; sec-treas., W. N. Bunkley. 



Appointments.^^ Albany Med. Coli. : Arthur Knudson, assis. 

 prof., biol. ehem. (prom.). 



Coli. City New York : L. J. Curtman, assis. prof., ehem. (prom.). 



Fordham Univ., Med. Seh. : D. R. Lucas, lab. assis., physiol. 



Iowa State Coli. (Ames) : Helen Monsch, head, Dep't of Foods. 



N. Y. State Dep't of Health (Albany), Div. of Lab's and 

 Research: Tula L. Harkey (Nat'l Path. Lab., N. Y. City), lab. 

 assis., bacteriol. 



Rockefeller Inst. Med. Research: M. Heidelberger, assoc, ehem. 

 (prom.). 



Univ., Cal. : H. A. Mattill (Univ., Utah), assis. prof., nutrition. 



Univ., Neb., Coli, of Med. (Omaha) : Max Morse (Univ., 

 Wis.), assis. prof., biochem. 



Vassar Coli.: Cora J. Beckwith, assoc. prof., zoology (prom.). 



Va. Agric. Exp. Sta'n (Blacksburg) : F. D. Fromme (Purdue 

 Univ., Agric. Exp. Sta'n), plant pathologist and bacteriologist. 



West. Maryland Coli. (Westminster) : P. W. Punnett, prof., 

 ehem. and biol. 



Dental graduates. At the recent commencement of the N. Y. 

 Coli, of Dental and Oral Surgery, the degree of D.D.S. was con- 

 ferred on Louise C. Ball and Siegfried J. Nilson. 



Associations and societies.^^ Officers-elect. Medical 

 Brotherhood: Pres., vS. /. Meltser; councilor, N. B. Foster; hon. 

 pres., R. H. Chittenden; members of advis. commit., C. L. Aisberg, 

 John Howland, L. B. Mendel. 



Sigma Xi (Yale Chapt.) : L. L. Woodruff, pres. 



Members-elect. Amer. Philosoph. Soc. : P. B. Hawk. 



Nat'l Acad. Sciences: Alexander Smith. 



Sigma Xi (Columbia Chapt.) : Louise H. Gregory, E. G. Griffin, 



11 See also page 456. 



12 See also page 457. 



