War Notes 121 



Univ. items. More than 600 stuclents and alumni of the Univ. 

 of Penn, are either fighting or doing med. work in the war zone. 



The British Gov. has decided that all med. students, except those 

 in the last two years of professional study, shall relinquish their 

 work and become combatant members of the Army. 



Prof. Hertwig, Berlin, who has just celebrated his 8ist birthday, 

 is now on active service with the troops at the front. This is his 

 fourth military campaign — he also served in 1864, 1866 and 1870. 



There are now about 1,700 Toronto Univ. men in active service. 

 Of the univ. stafif, 73 are serving as officers and 8 are in the ranks. 

 Graduates numbering 746 are officers and 171 hold other ranks. 

 There are 284 undergraduates serving as officers and 381 in the 

 ranks. 



III. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BIOCHEMICAL ASSOCIATION 



I. General Notes 



Appointments.2 Marine Biol. Lab., Woods Hole, Mass.; 

 Summer session, 1916: Charles Packard, instr., embryol. 



N. Y. Univ. and Bell. Hosp. Med. Coli. : Dr. M. G. Herzfeld, 

 assis. in pathology. 



Officers-elect. Societies. Dr. G. D. Beal: sec'y, Div. of 

 Pharmaceut. Chem., Amer. Chem. Soc. ; vice-p., Phi Lambda 

 Upsilon. 



Prof. R. H. Chittenden: member, Council, Amer. Philosoph. 

 Soc; Ch'm'n, Finance Commit., National Commit. for Mental 

 Hygiene. 



Dr. IV. H. Eddy: a director, Nat'l Educators Conservation 

 Soc; also ch'r'n, Commit. on Wild Life Protection and Increase. 



Dr. H. L. Fisher: pres., Phi Lambda Upsilon. 



Dr. C. S. Gager: a director, Nat'l Educators Conservation Soc. 



Prof. A. J. Gold färb: a director, Nat'l Educators Conservation 

 Soc. 



Dr. /. /. Kligler: member, Amer. Soc Naturalists. 



Dr. Jacques Loch: -trustee, Marine Biol. Lab., Woods Hole, 

 Mass. (to serve until 1919). 



2 See also pages 115 and 126. 



