412 Doctorates in Biological Chemistry [June-September 



University of Illinois. — William Leonidas Budison: Availabil- 

 ity of mineral phosphates for plant nutrition. — Harry Peach Cor- 

 son: Manganese in water supplies. — Wallace Macfarlane: Solubility 

 of lime carbonates in relation to their endurance in soils. — Harald 

 Hansen Mitchell: Feeding experiments on the Substitution of pro- 

 teins by definite mixtures of isolated amino-acids. — Fred Weaver 

 Muncie: Effect of large applications of commercial fertilizers upon 

 carnations. — Morris Miller Wells: Relations of fishes to ions in 

 their natural environment : (I) Reactions and resistance to acidity, 

 alkalinity, and neutrality; (II) Reaction and resistance to salts. — 

 Frank Archihald Wyatt: Influence of calcium and magnesium Com- 

 pounds on plant growth. 



University of Michigan. — George Herbert Coons: Study of the 

 factors involved in the growth and pycnidia formation of Plenodro- 

 mus fuscomaculaits. 



University of Minnesota. — Morris Joslin Blish: Chemical Con- 

 stitution of wheat proteins and their relation to baking " strength " in 

 flour. 



University of Wisconsin. — John Nicholas Lowe: Action of 

 chemical Stimuli on the chromatophores of brook trout, Salvelinus 

 fontinalis mitchill. — Charles August Mann: Chemistry of San Pal- 

 metto berries. — Howard Edward Pidling: Movement of water in 

 serotid soils. 



Washington University. — Alva Raymond Davis: Enzyme ac- 

 tion in the marine algse. — Joseph Charles Gilman: Cabbage yellows 

 and the relation of temperature to its occurrence. — Melvin Clarence 

 Merrill: Electrolytic determination of exosmosis from the roots of 

 plants subjected to the action of various agents. 



Yale University. — Joseph Suniner Bat es: Synthesis of dipeptid- 

 hydantoins, together with a short study of Michigan hard-wood 

 tar. — Emil Jacob Baumann: Question of fat absorption from the 

 stomach. — Isaac Faust Harris: Chemical and physiological studies 

 of the castor bean and soy bean. — Byron Murray Hendrix: Studies 

 in the physiological action of some protein derivatives. — Edward 

 Frederick Kohmann: Constitution of mono- and di-nitrotyrosin, and 

 the xanthoproteic and Millon reactions. — Walter Moody Scott: 

 Hydroxyl derivatives of Phenylalanin, and their biochemical inter- 



