212 Associations and Societies 



soils. Rhode Island Sect., Mar. 23. — F. P. Gorham: Bacterlal 

 treatment of textile iibers. Rochester Sect.^ Mar. 20. — A. P. 

 Sy: Character, cost and adulteration of foods. St. Louis Sect., 

 Mar. 6. — E. Bartow: Activated sludge. Syracuse Sect. — Mar. 

 24. — G. W. Cavanaugh: Problems in agric. ehem. Washing- 

 ton Sect.^ Mar. 9. — H. H. Curtis: Isolation of vitamines from 

 brewer's yeast. — A. Seidell: Chem. nature of vitamines. 



Amer. Philosoph. See: Annual general meeting, Phila., Pa. ; 

 Apr. 13-15. — R. F. Bacon: Work of the Mellon Inst, in its relation 

 to the industries and to the universities. — /. W. Harshherger: 

 Origin and Vegetation of salt marsh pools. — W. J. V. Osterhout: 

 Dynamics of antagonism. — /. /. Stephenson: Goal formation. — G. 

 Scatchard and M. T. Bogert: New and very sensitive indicator for 

 alkalimetry and acidimetry. — W. J. Gies and collab. : Bacterio- 

 chem. studies of decay of the teeth. — M. E. Rehfuss: Human gastric 

 secretion. — F, W. Clarke: Inorganic constituents of marine inverte- 

 brates. — Raymond Pearl: Effects of continued administration of 

 certain poisons to the domestic fowl, v^ith special reference to the 

 progeny. ( Contributed by /. 5". Hephurn. ) 



Botan. See. Wash. C. O. Appleman: Relation of catalase and 

 oxidases to respiration in plants. 



Harvey See. Supper at Sherry's in honor of W. H. Welch, 

 Apr. 29; Speakers, Abraham Jacohi, W. M. Polk, H. M. Biggs, 

 S. W. Lambert, W. B. James, Simon Flexner. 



Nat'l Acad. Sciences i^ Annual meeting, Apr. 17-19. — S. J. 

 Meltzer: Permeability of endothelia. — /. 5. Kleiner and S. J. 

 Meltzer: Infi, of morphin upon the elim. of intraven. injected dex- 

 trose. — Simon Flexner: Finer mechanisms of protection from infec- 

 tion. — V. C. Vaughan: Protein poison. — C. R. Stockard: Heredity 

 transmission of defects resulting from alcoholism. — W. B. Cannon: 

 Recent observations on the activity of some glands of internal secre- 

 tion. — H. H. Donaldson: Water content of the nervous System. — 

 C. L. Aisberg: Relation of investigational work to the enforcement 

 of the Food-and-Drugs Act. 



Soc. Exp. Biol. and Med. Mar. 15. — R. Ottenberg: Effect of 

 sodium citrate on blood coag. in hemophilia. — 5". /. Meltzer and 



2 Abstracts of the proceedings : Science, 1916, xliii, p. 538. 



