BIOCHEMICAL NEWS, NOTES, AND COMMENT 



BENJAMIN HOROWITZ, 



Wm. J. Gies, Hattie L. Heft, Paul E. Howe and W. A. Perlzweig 

 Sectional Contributing Editors: 



EDGAR G. MILLER, Jr., New York City, 



W. N. Berg, Washington, D. C. 

 Arthur W. Dox, Arnes, Iowa. 

 Paul J. Hanzlik, Cleveland, O. 

 J. S. Hepburn, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 R. A. GoRTNER, St. Paul, Minn. 

 Max Kahn, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



A. Bruce Macallum, Toronto, Can. 

 F. H. McCrudden, Boston, Mass. 

 H. A. Mattill, Berkeley, Cal. 

 P. H. Mitchell, Providence, R. I. 

 E. C. Schneider, Col. Springs, Col. 

 W. H. Welker, Chicago, 111. 



Contents. (I). General: Necrology, 215; resolution in memory of R. A. 

 Witthaus, 216; resignation, 217; appointments, 217; lectures and addresses, 218; 

 prizes, 220; medal, 221; journalistic, 221; fellowships, 221; miscellaneous items, 

 223. 



(II). War Notes: Personalia, 231; university items, 232; education, science, 

 politics, 232; food and nutrition, 235; trade war, 237; sanitation, disinfection, 

 238 ; preparedness, 243 ; chemical items, 243. 



(III). Col. Univ. Biochem. Assoc: (i) General notes — prizes, 245; appoint- 

 ments, 24s ; associations and societies, 246 ; lectures and addresses, 247 ; expedi- 

 tion to Japan, 247; journalistic, 247; personalia, 247. (2) Proc. of the Assoc, 

 248. (3) Columbia Biochem. Dep't., 248. 



I. GENERAL 



Necrology. Bela Alexander, direc. Radiologie Inst., Budapest 

 Royal Hungarian Univ. — W. P. B olles, pro f. mater. med. and bot- 

 any,Mass. Coli, of Pharm. ( 1874-84) ; instr. mater. med. and therap., 

 Harvard Med. Seh. ( i88o-'84).— £/fow Fulmer, Wash. State ehem. ; 

 sr. member and dean of faculty, Wash. State Coli. — H. C. Jones, 

 prof. physic. ehem., Johns Hopkins Univ. — Ivan Lewinstein, noted 

 chemist who developed the aniline industry in England. — Walter 

 Loeb, head ehem. dept, Rudolf Virchow Hosp., Berlin.— Foreign 

 papers announce the death of E. W. Pavlov, the Russian surgeon. 

 It is possible that the published announcements of the death of 

 /. P. Pavlov, the distinguished Russian physiologist, were due to 



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