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SCIENCE 



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First Session. — Tuesday afternoon, December 29, 

 1908. Presiding officer: Vice-president William 

 H. Howell. The program consisted of: (1) an 

 address by the retiring vice-president, Ludvig 

 Hektoen, on Opsonins and other Antibodies,^ and 

 (2) a symposium on The Regulation of Physical 

 Instruction in Schools and Colleges from the 

 Standpoint of Hygiene. 



Second Session. — Wednesday afternoon, Decem- 

 ber 30, 1908. Presiding officer: Vice-president 

 William H. Howell. Joint session with the Amer- 

 ican Physiological Society, the Society of Amer- 

 ican Bacteriologists and the American Society of 

 Biological Chemists. This session was devoted to 

 three general papers (see scientific proceedings 

 below). 



EXECUTIVE PKOCEEDINGS 



The following officers were elected for the en- 

 suing term: 



Vice-president of the Association and Chairman 

 of the Section — Charles Sedgwiclc Minot. 



Secretary — George T. Kemp. 



Sectional Committee — William H. Howell, vice- 

 president, 1908-9; Charles Sedgwick Minot, vice- 

 president, 1909-10; George T. Kemp, secretary, 

 1909-13; Frederick G. Novy (one year), Graham 

 Lusk (two years), Jacques Loeb (three years), 

 E. P. Lyon (four years), William J. Gies, secre- 

 tary 1904-9 (five years). 



Member of the Council — ^W. 6. MacCalliun. 



Memier of the General Committee — William W. 

 Ford. 



SCIENTIFIC PEOCEEDINGS 



I. FiBST Session. — (1) Vice-presidential ad- 

 dress and (2) symposium on college athletics. 



Program 



Address by the retiring chairman, Dr. Ludvig 

 Hektoen, professor (and head of the department) 

 of pathology and bacteriology. University of Chi- 

 cago. Subject: Opsonins and other Antibodies.^ 



Symposium — Subject : " The Regulation of Phys- 

 ical Instruction in Schools and Colleges from the 

 Standpoint of Hygiene." 



Introductory remarks by the chairman, Dr. 

 William H. Howell, professor of physiology, and 

 dean, Johns Hopkins Medical School. 



The Regulation of Physical Instruction in 

 Schools and Colleges from the Standpoint of 



' See Science, Vol. XXIX., p. 241, 1909. 

 ' See Science, Vol. XXIX., p. 241, 1909. 



Hygiene: Dr. R. Tait McKenzie, professor of 

 physical education, University of Pennsylvania. 



On the Physiological Effects of Moderate Mus- 

 cular Activity and of Strain : Dr. Theodore Hough, 

 professor of physiology. University of Virginia. 



Physical Exercise from the Standpoint of Phys- 

 iology: Dr. Frederic S. Lee, professor of physiol- 

 ogy, Columbia University. 



Departmental Organization for the Regulation 

 of Physical Instruction in Schools and Colleges 

 from the Standpoint of Hygiene: Dr. Thomas A. 

 Storey, associate professor and director of phys- 

 ical instruction. College of the City of New York. 



General discussion. 



II. Second Session. — General papers in joint 

 session with the American Physiological Society, 

 the Society of American Bacteriologists and the 

 American Society of Biological Chemists. 



Program 



Anaphylaxis: Dr. M. J. Rosenau, director of the 

 hygienic laboratory, Public Health and Marine 

 Hospital Service, U. S. A., Washington. 



The Physiological Significance of Creatin and 

 Creatinin: Dr. Lafayette B. Mendel, professor of 

 physiological chemistry, Sheffield Scientific School, 

 "kale University. 



The Venous Pulse: Dr. Albion W. Hewlett, pro- 

 fessor of the theory and practise of medicine and' 

 clinical medicine. University of Michigan. 



General discussion. 



PAPERS AND abstracts (I. AND II.) 



I. Papers comprising the symposium on The 

 Regulation of Physical Instruction in Schools and 

 Colleges from the Standpoint of Hygiene. By 

 Drs. Mackenzie, Hough, Lee and Storey. (To be 

 published in Scienoe, March 26 and April 2. 



II. Papers comprising the program of tne joint 

 session with the bacteriologists, biochemists and 

 physiologists. By Drs. Rosenau, Mendel and 

 Hewlett. 



Anaphylaxis: M. J. Rosenau. (Will be published 



in the Archives of Internal Medicine.) 

 The Physiological Significance of Creatin and 



Creatinin: Lapayette B. Mendel. (Will be 



published in Science.) 

 The Venous Pulse: Albion Waltee Hewlett. 



The typical venous pulse consists of three main 

 waves which have been designated the a, c and v 

 waves, respectively. A comparison of the jugular 

 pulse with that of the carotid artery shows that 

 the wave occurs almost simultaneously with the 

 carotid pulse. The a wave precedes the c wave 



