William J. Gies 6i 



All due preparation will be made for the first award of the prize 

 shortly after the completion of the next succeeding volume (VI) of 

 this Journal. 



The Mcdical Brotherhood ("F. M.") — the Organization and 

 proceedings of which are discussed in Vol. IV (June-Sept.) — is 

 steadily increasing in size and importance. As we go to press the 

 Development of the number of members exceeds eleven hundred 

 Medical Brother- (i,iOo). The following quotation is pertinent, 

 hood: " F. M." though unintended, comment on the opportunities 



of the Medical Brotherhood : 



The whole civilized world observes with delight that the profes- 

 sion of medicine, including surgery and the profession of public 

 health and sanitation, Stands out distinctly among all the intellectual 

 callings as being steadily and universally devoted to curing the 

 sanguinary ills of war, alleviating human sufferings from disease 

 and folly, and extending for mankind the domain of health and 

 happy life. These professions employ all the resources of physics, 

 chemistry and biology for mercifui ends both in peace and in war. 

 The martial professions, on the other band, employ many scientific 

 discoveries and inventions, originally made for peace ful uses, as 

 means of destruction and death. Biological science has great ad- 

 vantage in this respect over physical and chemical: It can not so 

 f requently or easily be applied to evil ends. C. W. Eliot : Science, 

 1915, xlii, p. 928. 



Do the members of the American Society of Biological Chem- 

 ists continue to prefer the Christmas holidays, of all other days of 

 the year, as the period in which to hold the annual meetings, or, 

 Objection to seien- ^o the members continue annually to meet sub- 

 tific meetings dur- missively during that holiday season chiefly be- 

 ing the Christmas cause " they started that way and don't know how 

 holidays ^^ g^^p M p jj^g ^l^g Bochemical Society yoked up 



with the ox of custom and has custom been running away with the 

 Society? Is this case parallel with the classical : " We're here 

 because we're here?" 



