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H. V. "Wilson — 3Ietschmkoff, Zoologist and Pathologist. 



Elie Metschnikoff (1845-1016^ is doubly distinguished in that he 

 brought to light a great idea in abstract science and himself carried 

 it over and further developed it in a field that is directly concerned 

 with the physical welfare of mankind. In the course of Metschnikoff 's 

 many, varied, and eminently original studies on the comparative 

 embryology of invertebrates, ending with his " Embryologische 

 Studien an Medusen" (Wien, 1886), his attention was focussed again 

 and again on the wandering, amoeboid cells, which play so important 

 a part in the development and physiology of sponges, coelenterates, 

 echinoderms and other invertebrates. Correlating the wandering, 

 digestive, and protective (Messina, 1882) functions of such cells, he 

 asked himself if the leucocytes of vertebrates were not essentially 

 similar elements. With this began his famous discoveries in Path- 

 ology concerning the direct and indirect action of leucocytes against 

 invading bacteria. 



Election of Officers : 



President — W. F. Prouty. 

 Vice-President — Otto Stuhlman. 

 Permanent Secretary — J. M. Bell. 

 Recording Secretary and Treasurer — II. R. Totten. 

 Editorial Committee — W. C. Coker, chairman; J. M. Bell, Collier 

 Cobb. 



Called Meeting — June 2, 1922 



A meeting was called to consider some appropriate action in recog- 

 nition of the late Charles Baskerville. A motion was passed that 

 the next numl)er of the Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific 

 Society (Vol. 38, Nos. 1 & 2) be dedicated to his memory. 



