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SCIENCE 



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the literature of individual papers, but their 

 furLCtion does not extend to a comtparative 

 analysis of results and methods. Publications 

 such as the Ergehnisse der Physiologie, the 

 Harvey Lectures, etc., that attempt this latter 

 task, have been so helpful as to encourage the 

 belief that a further enlargement of such agen- 

 cies will be welcomed by all workers. It is 

 proposed, therefore, to establish a journal in 

 which there will be published a series of short 

 but comprehensive articles dealing with the re- 

 cent literature in physiology, using this term 

 in a broad sense to include bio-dhemistry, bio- 

 physics, experimental pharmacology and ex- 

 perimental pathology. 



The editorial board will select subjects and 

 assign them to authors. The articles will con- 

 tain complete bibliographical lists and will be 

 as short as the material under treatment will 

 allow. Thus it is estimated that the first vol- 

 ume will contain twenty articles averaging 

 twenty-five pages each. The character and 

 scope of these articles may be judged by the 

 contents of Volume I, which are plamied to be 

 as follows: 



January 

 The regulation of the pulmonary circulation : Cakl 



J. WlGGERS. 



The origin and propagation of the cardiac impulse : 



J. A. E. Etsteb and W. J. Meek. 

 The anaphylactic reaction: H. Gideon Wells. 

 Fhoto-electric current in the eye : Charles Sheabd. 

 The carbon dioxide carrier of the Hood: Donald 



D. Van Sltke. 



April 

 Blood volume and its regulation: Joseph Er- 



langer. 

 The sugar of the hlood: 3. J. K. Macleod. 

 The circulation in the capillaries and veins: 



Donald E. Hooker. 

 The heat regulating mechanism, of the hody: 



Henrt G. Barbour. 

 Contributions of war surgery to the physiology of 



the (central) nervous system: Gilbert Horrax. 



July 

 Structure and significance of the phosphatids: P. 



A. Levene. 

 Physiological oxidations: H. D. Dakin. 

 Tests fen- muscular efficiency: E. G. Martin. 



Intestinal absorption: Samuel Goldschmidt. 



Gastric secretion in health and disease: A. J. 

 Carlston. 



October 



The afferent paths for the visceral reflexes: S. 

 Walter Banson. 



The physiological effects of undernutrition: Gra- 

 ham LUSK. 



Adsorption in physiological processes: Albert P. 

 Mathews. 



The vitamines: H. C. Sherman. 



Physiological effects of altitude: Edward C. 

 Schneider. 



UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LECTURES 



Twenty-five lectures by members of the 

 faculty of the University of Pennsylvania 

 will constitute the free lecture program for 

 the present academic year. All lectures will 

 be given in Houston Hall. The lectures on 

 scientific subjects are as follows: 



Nov. 13 — "Eranklin's life in title pages," Asa 

 Don. Dickinson. 



Nov. 27 — "New light on plant feeding," Rod- 

 ney H. True, Ph.D. 



Dec. 4 — "Some applications of biochemistry," 

 George H. Meeker, M.D., LL.D. 



Jan. 22 — "Engineering and science," Milo S. 

 Ketchum, B.S. 



Feb. 12 — ' ' Bessemer steel first invented in Amer- 

 ica, " Herman C. Berry, B.S. 



Feb. 19 — "Death from the standpoint of the 

 physiologist, ' ' Edward Lodholz, M.D. 



March 5 — "Some important phases of public 

 health," Henry B. M. Landis, M.D. 



March 12 — "Floral calendars and floral clocks," 

 John M. Macfarlane, D.Sc. 



March 19 — ' ' The criminal prosecution of animals 

 and inanimate objects, ' ' Walter W. Hyde, Ph.D. 



March 26 — "Electrical transmission of power," 

 Harold Pender, Ph.D. 



April 2 — ' ' The relation of bacteria to health and 

 disease, ' ' David H. Berger, Dr.P.H. 



April 9 — "Methods of determining celestial dis- 

 tances, ' ' Samuel 6. Barton, Ph.D. 



April 16 — "The elimination of vibration and 

 noise, ' ' Thomas D. Cope, Ph.D. 



April 30 — "The advances of medicine in the 

 nineteenth century, ' ' Alfred Stengel, M.D., Sc.D. 



May 7 — "Louis Pasteur: the world's greatest 

 benefactor," Ernest Laplace, M.D., LL.D. 



