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and Surgeons; H. G. Barbour, Yale Medical 

 tion of Ptyalin and Pepsin by the Electric Cur- 

 rent. ' ' 



G. H. Whipple: "Intestinal Obstruction; Study 

 of a Toxic Substance Present in the Intestinal 

 Mucosa. ' ' 



S. J. Meltzer : "Is the Pulsation of the An- 

 terior Lymph Hearts Responsible for the Action 

 of some Drugs in Cardieetomized Frogs?" 



H. McGuigan : ' ' The Synergic Action of Mor- 

 phine and Strychnine." 



Symposium: "Some Recent Applications of 

 Physical Chemistry in Biology." 



(a) A. B. Macallum: "Surface Tension." 



(6) L. J. Henderson: "The Control of Neu- 

 trality in the Animal Body. ' ' 



The following eleven papers were read by title: 



C. D. Snyder: "The Influence of Temperature 

 on the Mammalian Heart." 



M. Bresbach (by invitation): "A Bloodless 

 Method ®f Recording Blood Pressure in Animals. ' ' 



A. J. Carlson : ' ' Some Observations on the 

 Physiology of the Empty Stomach and Esophagus 

 in Man and Dog. ' ' 



H. C. Bradley: "The Problem of Enzyme Syn- 

 thesis. ' ' 



G. W. Crile: "The Relation between the Phys- 

 ical State of the Brain Cells and Brain Functions 

 — Experimental and Clinical. ' ' 



Y. Henderson and C. T. Plynn (by invitation) : 

 ' ' Oligemia in Acute Disease. ' ' 



H. McGuigan: "The Secondary Depression by 

 Epinephrin; the Rate of Destruction of the Pres- 

 sor and the Hyperglycemia Actions of Epine- 

 phrin. ' ' 



W. B. Wherry (by invitation): "On the Trans- 

 formation, of Amebse into Flagellates and Vice 

 Versa. ' ' 



P. E. Howe (by invitation) and P. B. Hawk: 

 "The Influence of Fasting on the Creatine Con- 

 tent of Muscle. ' ' 



C. D. Snyder: "A Study of the Eleetromyo- 

 grams. ' ' 



A. J. Carlson : ' ' The Correlation of the Physi- 

 ological States of the Thyi'oid of the Fetus and of 

 the Mother. ' ' 



The following persons were elected to member- 

 ship in the society: G. C. Robinson, Rockefeller 

 Institute; J. D. Pilcher, P. J. Hanzlik, R. S. 

 Pearce, Western Reserve Medical School; G. C. 

 Schneider, Colorado College; A. H. Ryan, Univer- 

 sity of Pittsburgh; M. Dresbach, Cornell Univer- 

 sity; G. Bachmann, Atlanta College of Physicians 



School; W. B. MacNider, University of North 

 Carolina; A. R. Moore, University of California; 

 H. B. Williams, Columbia University; V. H. K. 

 Moorhouse, Washington University. 



At this meeting considerable progress was made 

 toward the formation of a close federation of the 

 American Physiological Society, the American 

 Society of Biological Chemists and the American 

 Society for Pharmacology and Experimental 

 Therapeutics. The society expressed its desire to 

 enter into such a federation, and a committee was 

 appointed to confer with similar committees of 

 the sister societies with a view to bringing it 

 about. The committee was granted power to make 

 the arrangements for the next annual meeting. 

 This committee was also directed to confer with a 

 similar committee of the American Society of 

 Naturalists to consider the advisability of estab- 

 lishing closer relations with that society. 



With regard to the measures of remedying the 

 threatening congestion of programs that were re- 

 ferred to the council at the last annual meeting, 

 it was decided that should the federation of the 

 three societies be accomplished, the secretaries of 

 the federated societies be empowered to attempt 

 the equalization of the programs of the three 

 societies by placing papers on the program of the 

 society to which its subject is most closely related. 

 It was also decided to place at the end of the pro- 

 gram papers presented by non-members, and in 

 the event of congestion of the program, to read 

 these by title. 



The following officers were elected for the year 

 1913: 



President — S. J. Meltzer, New York. 



Secretary — A. J. Carlson, Chicago. 



Treasurer — Joseph Erlanger, St. Louis. 



Additional Members of the Council — W. B. Can- 

 non, Boston; P. S. Lee, New York. 



The following members of the society were 

 appointed by the president to form the editorial 

 committee on the publication of the American 

 Jou,rnal of Physiology for 1913 : A. T. Porter, A. 

 J. Carlson, Joseph Erlanger, W. H. Howell, F. S. 

 Lee, Graham Lusk, S. J. Meltzer. 



The local committee on entertainment, following 

 the plan that was first tried last year at Baltimore 

 by the members and friends of the society, again 

 agreed to dispense with all private entertainment, 

 and to substitute for it informal subscription din- 

 ners followed by smokers each evening while the 

 society was in session. These functions were open 

 to all members and guests of the societies of the 

 experimental biological sciences. It was again 



