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Paul Lewis : ' ' Further Observations on the Ee- 

 lations of Vital Stains to the Tubercle. ' ' 



T. S. Githens and S. J. Meltzer : " On the Course 

 of the Toxic Effects of Ether and Chloroform 

 under Intratracheal Insufflation. " 



T. S. Githens: "On the Influence of Decerebra- 

 tion upon Morphin Tetanus in Frogs. ' ' 



I. S. Kleiner (by invitation) : "On the Effect 

 of Sodium Bicarbonate and Sodium Chloride upon 

 the Convulsions produced by Heroin and Strych- 

 nin. ' ' 



J. Auer and S. J. Meltzer : ' ' Tlie Influence of 

 Pituitrin upon the Depressor Action of the Vagus 

 Nerve in Cats. ' ' 



B. T. Terry : ' ' The Influence of Heat upon the 

 Toxicity for Trypanosomes of Blood containing 

 Transformed Atoxyl. ' ' 



B. T. Terry : ' ' Variations in the Toxicity of 

 Transformed Atoxyl for Trypanosomes caused by 

 Altering the Number of Organisms. ' ' 



EXECUTIVE SESSIONS 



The following ofiScers were elected for the year 

 3913: 



President — Torald Solhnann. 



Secretary — John Aner. 



Treasurer — A. S. Loevenhart. 



New Members of the Council — J. J. Abel, Wm. 

 de B. MacNider. 



Membership Committee — C. W. Edmunds was 

 reelected to serve three years, and the place made 

 vacant by Dr. Sollmann 's election to the presi- 

 dency was filled by the election of Eeid Hunt. 



New Members — Among the candidates for mem- 

 bership investigated by the membership committee, 

 the following were favorably reported to the coun- 

 cil, recommended for election, and elected by the 

 society: Henry Gray Barbour, Yale Medical 

 School; Clyde Brooks, University of Pittsburgh; 

 Cary Eggleston, Cornell Medical School; P. J. 

 Hanzlik, Western Eeserve Medical School; D. E. 

 Jackson, Washington University; I. S. Kleiner, 

 Eockefeller Institute; Oscar H. Plant, University 

 of Pennsylvania; A. H. Eyan, University of Pitts- 

 burgh; Frank P. Underhill, Yale Medical School. 



At the last business meeting the Pharmacolog- 

 ical Society passed a vote of thanks to the Western 

 Eeserve University for the hospitality extended 

 and to the local committee, Drs. Macleod, Sollmann 

 and Pearee, for its thorough arrangement of all 

 the details which made the Cleveland meeting so 



P^^^^^^t- J. Auer, 



Secretary 



THE TENNESSEE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 

 The second session of the first annual meeting 

 of the Tennessee Academy of Science was held at 

 Carnegie Library Hall, University of Tennessee, 

 Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 29-30, 1912. 

 The following papers were given: 



NOVEMBER 29: MORNING SESSION, 10 A.M. 



"The Taste Sense in Frogs," Alice N. Porter. 



' ' Hydrogen Peroxide as a Bleaching Agent for 

 Entire Insects, " E. C. Cotton. 



' ' Eelation of the State to its Water Power Ee- 

 sources, " J. A. Switzer. 



' ' The Eecent Disturbance in the Northern 

 Equatorial Belt of Jupiter" (read by Professor 

 Porter), Latimer J. Wilson. 



AFTERNOON SESSION, 2 P.M. 



' ' The Effects of a Soy Bean Crop on a Follow- 

 ing Cereal," Maurice Mulvania. 



' ' The Fourth Dimension, ' ' Samuel M. Barton. 



' ' The Occurrence of Aerial Boots on the Vir- 

 ginia Creeper," Samuel M. Bain. 



' ' Micro-color Photography, ' ' Samuel M. Bain. 



EVENING SESSION, 7:30 P.M. 



Address by the retiring president, ' ' Science and 

 Progress in the South. ' ' 



"The Mastodon and the Glacial Age" (illus- 

 trated), W. E. Myers. 



Eeception to visiting members by the faculty of 

 the University of Tennessee. 



NO'^'EMBER 30, 9:00 P.M. 



' ' Def raction Phenomena Due to the Dimensions 

 of the Source of Light, ' ' Brown Ayers. 



"Studies in Feeding Habits of Amoeba," Asa 

 A. Schaeffer. 



"The Slates of Georgia," T. Poole Maynard. 



' ' The Importance of the Study of Meteorology 

 in its relation to Agriculture, " J. F. Voohees. 



' ' The Breaking of the Nashville Eeservoir, No- 

 vember 5, 1912" (illustrated), Wilbur A. Nelson. 



' ' Types of Iron Ore Deposits in East Tennes- 

 see, " C. H. Gordon. 



The following oiScers were elected for the en- 

 suing year : 



President — Watson Selvage, University of the 

 South, Sewanee. 



Vice-president — G. A. Dyer, Vanderbilt Univer- 

 sity, Nashville. 



Secretary — Wilbur A. Nelson, Tennessee Geo- 

 logical Survey, Nashville. 



