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Miss Jennie A. Walker, member, Columbia chapt., Sigina Xi. 



The following members of the Assoc. are members of the Chem. 

 Teachers' Club of N. Y. City: Robert Bersohn, C. D. Carpcnter, 

 B. G. Feinberg, W. J. Gies, Alexander Smith, C. H. Vosburgh. 



Lectures and addresses. Amer. Home Econ. Assoc, Detroit; 

 Feb. 25 : Prof. Josephine Berry, How the noonday lunch may be 

 used in teaching home economics. — Prof. Isabel Bevier, Opportuni- 

 ties and obligations of home economics; also Report of commit. on 

 terminol. 



Cleveland Acad. of Med., May 12 : Dr. L. B. Mendel, Abnor- 

 mahties of growth. 



Harvey Soc, N. Y. Acad. of Med., Apr. 8: Prof. 5". R. Benedict, 

 Uric acid in its relations to metabolism. 



Prof. C. R. Stockard was one of the Speakers in the Symposium 

 on alcohol at the N. Y. Acad. of Med., Apr. 6. He also delivered 

 a lecture, before the Yale chapter of Sigma Xi, Mar. i, on the in- 

 fluence of alcohol in development and inheritance. 



Univ. of Pittsb., Seh. of Chem. ; Apr. 12 : Dr. /. Rosenbloom, 

 Evolution of biochemistry. 



Wash. Acad. of Sei., New Nat'l Museum, Apr. 7: Dr. E. F. 

 DuBois, Basal food requirement of man. 



Expedition to Japan. Prof. E. N. Harvey is a member of an 

 expedition, for the study of echinoderms and siphonophores, that 

 recently started for Japan under the auspices of the dep't of biol. 

 of the Carnegie Inst, of Washington. 



Journalistic. Dr. Hans Zinsser is one of the " advis. ed., " and 

 Dr. /. /. Kligler one of the "abstr. ed.," of the recently founded 

 Jour. of Bacteriol. 



Prof. W. D. Halliburton is the editor of Physiological Abstracts. 



See page 252. 



Personalia. Dr. /. L. Kantor has equipped an office, at 44 W. 

 96th St., N. Y. City, for the study and treatment of disorders of 

 digestion. 



Drs. Philip Van Ingen and H. B. Wilcox are members of the 

 exec. commit. of the Huddieston Memorial Commit., organized^ to 

 develop, in N. Y. City, the work of caring for " cardiac children." 



