PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ANNUAL MEETING 



OF THE FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCI- 



ETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY, 



IN BOSTON, DEC. 26-29, 1915 



PAUL E. HOWE 



PrEPARED FROM REPORTS BY THE SECRETARIES OF THE CONSTITUENT SOCIETIES, 



C. W. GREENE, P. A. SHAFFER, JOHN AUER and PEYTON ROUS 



Contents. (I) Federation of Amer. See. for Exp. Biol. : John Auer, Sec'y 

 of the Exec. Commit. of the Federation, 28; (II) Amer. Physiol. Soc. : C. W. 

 Greene, Sec'y, 33; (HI) Amer. Soc. of Biol. Chemists : P. A. Shaffer, Sec'y, 37; 

 (IV) Amer. Soc. for Pharmacol. and Exp. Therap. : John Auer, Sec'y, 42; (V) 

 Amer. Soc. for Exp. Pathol. : Peyton Rous, Sec'y, 47. 



I. FEDERATION OF AMER. SOCIETIES FOR EXP. BIOLOGY: 

 THIRD ANNUAL MEETING 



John Auer, 



Secretary of the Executive Committee for 19 15 



The third annual meeting of the Federation, comprising the 

 Amer. Physiol. Soc, the Amer. Soc. of Biol. Chemists, the Amer. 

 Soc. for Pharmacol. and Exp. Therapeutics, and the Amer. Soc. for 

 Exp. Pathol., was held in the laboratories of the Harvard Med. 

 Seh., Boston, Dec. 27-29, 191 5. 



Dinners. Two informal subscription dinners were given on 

 the evenings of Dec. 2y and 28 at the Hotel Lenox. At the first 

 dinner the Chairman of the Exec. Commit of the Fed. for 19 15, 

 Torald Sollmann, gave a brief reviewof the history of the Fed. and 

 pointed out some possible future developments.^ The Chairman 

 then called upon Drs. W. B. Cannon, Walter Jones, and John Auer, 

 who responded with pithy speeches. 



Scientific program. Only two Joint scientific sessions couldbe 

 arranged, the large number of papers offered, and the limited time, 

 preventing other general meetings. 



1 The substance of Prof. Sollmann's address is given on page 30. 



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