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2. Proceedings of the Association 



The proceedings of the third quart. meeting for the year (Apr. 

 7) will be published with those of the second (Feb. 4) in the next 

 issue of the Biochemical Bulletin. 



At the meeting on Apr. 7, Miss Hattie L. Heft, Dr. F. G. Good- 

 ridge and Dr. Gies (all life members) were appointed trustees of 

 the endowment fund for the Biochemical Bulletin. 



3. Columbia University Biochemical Department 



At the Suggestion of the Med. Faculty, the trustees of Columbia 

 Univ. have decided to admit women to all the med. courses to be 

 given in the proposed new med. school. Women were first admitted 

 to "grad. courses" in the Columbia Med. School, in 1908, in the 

 Biochem. Dep't. 



Dr. Gies is one of the two American abstractors for Physio- 

 logical Abstracts. He was recently elected a member of the Chem. 

 Teachers' Club of N. Y. City and of the Nat'l Inst, of Social Sei.; 

 also vice-pres't of the Soc. for Exp. Biol. and Med. He was a 

 delegate to the World Court Congress, held in Carnegie Hall, New 

 York, May 2-4, where he represented Gettysburg College, of which 

 he is a Trustee. 



The Trust, of Columbia Univ. have approved the Suggestion 

 that, provided sufficient funds for the purpose can be obtained, a 

 Seh. of Dentistry be included in the proposed new med. center to be 

 created in N. Y. under Columbia auspices. Dr. Gies is a member 

 of the commit. of the Med. Fac. appointed to further the plans for 

 the Seh. of Dentistry. 



At a recent meeting of the Columbia Chapter of Sigma Xi, 

 Messrs /. C. Baker, O. C. Bowes, E. G. Miller, Jr., L. H. Almy, and 

 C. P. Harris were elected members. 



Orlando C. Bowes has been appointed to a Cutting Traveling 

 Fellowship for I9i6-'i7. 



Prof. Gies addressed the annual meeting of the Dental Society 

 of the State of New York, in Albany, May 12, on the results of 

 researches on the relation of internal secretions to dentition, con- 

 ducted by him, during the past year, in collaboration with Miss 

 Hattie L. Heft and Drs. Edgar G. Miller, Jr., and W. 'A. Perlzweig. 



