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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXX. No. 783 



Dr. L. A. Bauer on " The First Cruise of tlie 

 Carnegie and her Equipment," which will be 

 printed in Science. 



The 672d meeting was held in Hubbard Me- 

 morial Hall on December 4, 1909, President Wead 

 in the oliair. The evening was devoted to ad- 

 dresses commemorative of the life and work of 

 Professor Simon Newoomb. Addresses were made 

 by the following persons: 



Tlie Right Hon. James Bryce, ambassador from 

 Great Britain; Professor ]\^jltpn Updegraff, di- 

 rector, Nautical Almanac; Dr. Jl. S. Woodward, 

 president of the Carnegie Institution of Washing- 

 ton; Dr. L. 0. Howard, chie^, Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, Agricultural Department; Professor E. 

 M. Gallaudet, president, Gallaudet College. 



At the close of the addres.sfs <;he following 

 resolutions were read and adopted: 



Wheeeas the Philosophical Society of Wash- 

 ington has been deprived by deat^ oi the fellow- 

 ship of Simon Newcomb, and 



Whereas he was for thirty-eig-.^t yoars one of 

 its active members and twice serv^^ as, its presi- 

 dent, be it 



Resolved that the society record its high appre- 

 ciation of his phenomenal talents, hia preeminent 

 attainments and his scholarly disougsion of the 

 many topics which his broad sympathies and 

 varied interests proposed for consideration. And 

 be it further 



Resolved that this society unite with jjje learned 

 societies and institutions of the entire world in 

 testifying to the loss to science and high learning 

 which his death occasioned; and that we hereby 

 convey to the bereaved family assurance of our 

 profound sympathy. E. L. Faeis, 



Secretary 



the society foe expeeimental biology and 

 medicine 



The thirty-fifth meeting of the society was held 

 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, October 

 20, 1909, with President Lee in the chair. 



Members present: Auer, Ewing, Famulener, 

 Foster, Gies, Harris, Hatcher, Hunter, Joseph, 

 Lamar, Lee, Levene, Levin, Meltzer, Mayer, Meyer, 

 Morgan, Morse, Murlin, Norris, Noguchi, Opie, 

 Park, Pearce, Ecus, Symmers, Schaffer, Stockard, 

 Van Slyke, Wadsworth, Weil, Wolf, Zinsser. 



Scientific Program 

 Charles E. Stockard : " The Influence of Alcohol 

 and other Anesthetics on Developing Embryos." 



Eichard Weil : " On the Variation in the Eesist- 

 ance of Human Erythrocytes in Disease to Hem- 

 olysins, with Especial Eeferenee to Syphilis." 



W. Koch and F. W. Upson: "The Distribution 

 of Sulphur Compounds in Brain Tissue." 



Robert L. Benson and H. Gideon Wells: "The 

 Study of Autolysis by Physico-chemical Methods." 



A. I. Ringer (by invitation): "Influence of 

 Adrenalin in Phlorhizin Diabetes." 



Andrew Hunter: "A Method for the Deter- 

 mination of Small Quantities of Iodine in Organic 

 Material." 



Sutherland Simpson and Andrew Hunter : " Re- 

 lations between the Thyroid and Pituitary Glands." 



Peyton Rous: "Parabiosis as a Test for Circu- 

 lating Antibodies in Cancer." 



Jean V. Cooke (by invitation) : "The Excretion 

 of Calcium and Magnesium after Parathyroid- 

 ectomy." 



Hideyo Noguchi : " Non-flxation of Comple- 

 ment." 



Hideyo Noguchi : " The Fate of So-called Syphil- 

 itic Antibody in the Precipitin Reaction." 



Thorne M. Carpenter and John E. Murlin: 

 " The Energy Metabolism of Parturient Women." 



Alfred G. Mayer : " The Relation between 

 Ciliary and Muscular Movements." 



Eugene L. Opie, 



the american chemical society 

 nobtheasteen section 



The ninety-fifth regular meeting of the section 

 was held at the Twentieth Century Club, Boston, 

 on November 26. The annual election of oflicers 

 took place. Dr. P. A. Levene, of the Rockefeller 

 Institute for Medical Research, in an address on 

 " The Biochemistry of Nucleic Acids," described 

 how the structure of these compounds had been 

 determined by a study of the cleavage products 

 produced by hydrolysis under various conditions. 



Dr. H. A. Torrey, of Harvard University, ad- 

 dressed the section on " Alkali-insoluble Phenols. 

 Does structural chemistry explain them?" After 

 having shown that several rather obvious hypoth- 

 eses as to the relation of structure of certain 

 phenols to their action with alkalies were unten- 

 able, the speaker offered the explanation that the 

 unexpected action of these substances might be 

 due to the existence of an equilibrium between 

 a phenol and quinoid form. 



K. L. Mark, 

 Secretary 



