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After general discussion it was unanimously agreed that the 

 members present express their condemnation of the present Situation 

 according to which proposals with such large support fail of adop- 

 tion ; that the amendments be again introduced f or action next year ; 

 and that the Secretary be directed to circularize the members and 

 take another vote on the proposals. 



NoMENCLATURE OF LIPOIDS. The Commit. appointed some 

 years ago on the Classification and nomenclature of lipoids having 

 been unable to reach an agreement, and having failed to present a 

 report, was discharged and the matter dropped for the present. 



" Bulletin 28." The Secretary was directed to request the 

 Secretary of the U. S. Dep. of Agric. to revise and republish Bull. 

 28 on the " Chemical composition of American food materials." 



Physiological Abstracts. The society voted to extend its 

 Cooperation and moral support to the British Physiol. Soc. in the 

 publication, by the British Soc, of the proposed Physiological 

 Abstracts. 



Vote of Thanks. The thanks of the society were expressed 

 to the Harvard authorities and members of the Local Commit. for 

 their generous hospitality during the meetings. 



New Members : R. J. Anderson, N. Y. Agr. Exp. Sta. ; N. R. 

 Blatherwick, U. S. Dep't of Agric, Washington, D. C; M. H. 

 Givens, U. S. Treas. Dep't, Pellagra Hosp., Spartanburg, S. C. ; 

 Samuel Goldschmidt, Johns Hopkins Univ. ; V. J. Harding, McGill 

 Univ., Canada; /. .S. Hepburn, U. S. Dep't of Agric, Phila. ; John 

 Howland, Johns Hopkins Univ.; F. B. Kingsbury, Univ. Minn. ; 

 R. A. Kocher, Univ. Calif. ; 6^. /. Meltner, Rockefeiler Inst; H. 0. 

 Mosenthal, Geo. Peirce, Johns Hopkins Univ. ; E. L. Scott, Colum- 

 bia Univ. ; H. Wasteneys, Rocke feller Inst. ; Ruth Wheeler, Univ. 

 111.; D. W. Wilson, Johns Hopkins Univ. 



Officers-elect. President, Walter Jones; vice-president, F. 

 P. Underhill; secretary, 5". R. Benedict; treasurer, D. D. Van 

 Slyke; additional meml^ers of the Council, Otto Polin, A. B. Mac- 

 allum, P. A. Shaffer; Nominating Commit., C. L. Aisberg, H. C. 

 Bradley, W. J. Gies, Andrew Hunt er, P. A. Levene, A. P. Matheivs, 

 L. B. Mendel, T. B. Osborne, A. E. Taylor. 



Comment. Presentation of papers. In spite of the large 



