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. 



Contents.— (I). General: Necrology, 49; retirement, 49; appointments, 49; 

 honors, 50; lectures and addresses, 50; prizes, 51; medals, 51; associations, so- 

 cieties, etc., 51; journalistic, 52; miscellaneous items, 53. 



(II). War Notes: University items, 55; Recovery of wounded, 55; miscel- 

 laneous items, 55. 



(III). Col. Univ. Biochem. Assoc: (i) General notes — appointments, 56; 

 associations and societies, 56; (2) Proc. of the Assoc. — 25th meeting, 56; fifth 

 annual dinner, 56; (3) Columbia Biochem. Dep't — appointments, 56; associations 

 and societies, 56; new Ph.D., 57; memorial library, 57; address, 57. 



I. GENERAL 



Necrology. H. Dchus, prof. of ehem., Royal Naval Coli., 

 Greenwich; lect. on ehem., Guy's Hosp. — Eugene W. Hilgard, 

 prof. of agric., Univ. Cal. (1875-1904), distinguished for his eon- 

 tributions to agrieultural ehem. — Raphacl Meldola, prof. of ehem., 

 Finsbury Coli., London. — Charles V. Mapes, industrial agric. ehem- 

 ist, N. Y. City. — Isaac Ott, prof. of physiol., Medico-Chi. Coli., 

 Phila. — Henry E. Roscoe, ehemist and emer. prof., Univ. Man- 

 chester. — U. Rose, instr. in internal med., Univ. of Strassburg. — 

 F. Tauszk, privat-doc. of internal med., Univ. Budapest. — Jules 

 Ville, prof. med. ehem., Faculte de Montpellier. — Anton Vorisek, 

 prof. of anal, ehem., N. Y. Coli, of Pharm. — Rudolf A. Witthaus, 

 prof. of ehem. and toxicol., Cornell Univ. Med. Coli. 



Retirement. Königsberg: Dr. Albert Stutzer, prof. of agric. 

 ehem., will retire from active service at the close of the present 

 Semester. 



Appointments.^ Boston Floating Hosp. : Dr. Alfred W. Bos- 

 worth (assoc. ehem., N. Y. Agric. Exp. Sta.), chief dep't biol. 

 ehem. 



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

 named in parenthesis. See also page 56. 



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