BIOCHEMICAL NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENT 

 Editorial sub-committee : 



BENJAMIN HOROWITZ, 



WILLIAM J. GIES, HATTIE L. HEFT, JOSEPH S. HEPBURN, 

 PAUL E. HOWE, EDGAR G. MILLER, JR., W. A. PERLZWEIG 



Contents. (I). General: Necrology, 115; appointments, 115; honors, 116; 

 lectures and addresses, 116; grants, 117; prizes, 117; journalistic, 117; miscel- 

 laneous items, 118. 



(II). War Notes: Necrology, 120; fat and ammunition, 120; university 

 items, 121. 



(III). Col. Univ. Biochem. Assoc: (i) General notes — appointments, 121; 

 officers-elect, 121; lectures and addresses, 122; laboratory for determination of 

 mental deficiency, 122; (2) Proc. of the Assoc. — 25th meeting, 122; fifth annual 

 dinner (26th meeting), 123; (3) Columbia Biochem. Dep't — appointment, 126; 

 resignation, 126; lectures and addresses, 126. 



I. GENERAL 



Necrology. W. A. Borger, assis. direct., Pasteur Inst, and 

 vaccination service in Java. — Rodolphe Engel, prof. of ehem., Mont- 

 pellier Seh. of Med. — Georg Grübler, Dresden, distinguished for 

 physiol. and bacteriol. study of proteins, enzymes and stains. — 

 Edmond Heckel, prof. of materia med., Marseilles. — F. W. Hewitt, 

 eminent English anes'thetist. 



Appointments.^ British Dyes, L'td. : Dr. W. H. Perkin (prof. 

 of ehem., Univ. of Oxford), head, research dep't; also chairman, 

 Advis. Council, vice Raphael Meldola, deceased. 



Cornell Univ. : The title of Dr. E. M. Chamot has been changed 

 from prof. of sanitary ehem. and toxicol. to prof. of ehem. micros- 

 copy and sanitary ehem. 



Lady Hardinge Med. Coli, and Hosp. (Delhi) : Miss A. M. 

 Bane, prof. of ehem. 



Leland Stanford Jr. Med. Seh. : Prof. A. H. Hewlett (prof. of 

 med., Univ. Mich.), prof. of med. 



Marine Biol. Lab., Woods Hole, Mass.; Summer session, 1916: 

 Dr. A. P. Mathezvs (Chicago), Dr. H. C. Bradley (Wisconsin), 

 Dr. Shiro Tashiro (Chicago), Dr. W. E. Garrey (Washington 



1 In this summary, institutions from which appointments were made are 

 named in parenthesis. See also pages 121 and 126. 



