1 18 Biochcmical News, Notes and Comment 



Gcrnian and Aiistrian scientific men, to the ntimber of 246, have 

 appcaled to the public not to cease to subscribe to scientific period- 

 icals, as the latter are indispensable to scientific progress. 



Miscellaneous items. Personalia. In a fire which destroyed 

 the Cornell Univ. ehem. lab., Prof. IV. D. Bauer oft's vvorking 

 library was rnined, together with the records and files of the Jour. 

 of Physieal Chem., of which Dr. Bancroft is editor. 



Prof. H. V. Tartar, head Oregon Exper. Sta. Dep't. Chem., has 

 been granted a two-year leave of absence, to pnrsue research work 

 at some of the leading eastern universities. 



Miss Gzuendolyn Stezvart, formerly instr. physiol. ehem., at 

 Santa Barbara Normal Seh. of Manual Arts and Home Econom., 

 is spending the year in the physiol. dep't. of Stanford Univ. 



PiiARMACOLOGiCAL. Sülvürsan " made in America." The 

 demiatol. lab's. of the Phila. Polyclinic are novv preparing arseno- 

 benzol (salvarsan). 



Food-and-drugs act constitiitional. The U. S. Supreme Court 

 recently rendered a decision in the case of " Eckman's Alternative," 

 a nostrum sold as a tuberculosis " eure," in which the constitution- 

 ahty of the amended food-and-drugs act was upheld. 



A''. y. Dep't. of Health labeis patent medicines. The "Gold- 

 water Registry Law," requiring that all packages of patent med. 

 bear a proper declaration-label, or that the seller declare the nature 

 of the Contents to the B'd. of Health, went into effect on Jan. i, 

 19 16. Several days before that date, 300 inspectors, from three 

 bureaus of the Dep't. of Health, began to canvass 2,494 drug Stores 

 in Greater N. Y., and place labeis on 5,000,000 packages of patent 

 med. Druggists generally have facilitated enforcement of the law. 



Present drug Situation. The great outstanding need of the 

 hour is the immediate foundation of an effective inst'n. for chemo- 

 therapeutic research. With the problems awaiting Solution and the 

 opportunities for developing information of unlimited importance 

 to the science of med., there is no way in which philanthropy could 

 do more for humanity than to make possible the establishment of 

 such an inst'n. l^hrlich is dead and the great research inst'n. of 

 which he was the head and moving spirit, by this misfortune and 

 other conditions, will be unable for a long time to go on serving 



