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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXIX. No. 756 



Scientific Program 



R. Burton-Opitz: The vascularity of the spleen 

 as influenced by single nerves of the plexus lien- 

 a7is. 



Richard M. Pearce: An experimental study of 

 the influence of kidney extracts and of the serum 

 of animals with renal lesions upon the blood 

 pressure. 



J. J. R. Maeleod: Further observations on the 

 effect of asphyxia and curare on the reducing 

 power of the blood after section of the hepatic 

 nerves in dogs. 



William H. Park and Eugene Famulener: 

 Toxin-antitoxin mixtures as immunizing agents. 



Alfred F. Hess: Antiperistalsis in its relation 

 to tubercle bacilli and other bacteria in the ali- 

 mentary tract. 



Simon Flexner and Richard V. Lamar: The 

 action of soaps on the pneumococcus. 



A. 0. Shaklee and S. J. Meltzer: The influence 

 of shaking upon trypsin and rennin and a com- 

 parison of this influence with that upon pepsin. 



Don R. Joseph and S. J. Meltzer: The influence 

 of sodium and calcium upon direct and indirect 

 muscle irritability and their mutual antagonistic 

 actions. 



J. Auer and S. J. Meltzer: The effects of local 

 application of chloride and sulphate of magnesium 

 upon the centers in the medulla compared with 

 those of sodium chloride. 



J. Auer and S. J. Meltzer: Respiration by con- 

 tinuous intrapulmonary pressure without the aid 

 rf muscular action. 



Alexis Carrel: Note on the production of kid- 

 ney insufliciency by reduction of the arterial cir- 

 culation of the kidney. 



Theodore C. Janeway: A modification of the 

 Riva-Rocci method of determining blood-pressure 

 for use on the dog. 



Theodore C. Janeway: Note on the blood- 

 pressure changes following reduction of the renal 

 arterial circulation. 



H. C. Thacher: The effect of experimental acute 

 insufficiency of the right heart upon the volume 

 of the organs. 



The thirty-fourth meeting of the society was 

 held at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search, May 26, 1909, with President Lee in the 

 chair. 



Menibers present: Auer, Beebe, Ewing, Famu- 

 lener, Flexner, Gies, Hatcher, Joseph, Lee, Lewis, 

 Loeb (Leo), Morse, Meyer (Gustave), Pearce, 



Shaffer, Sherman, Terry, Van Slyke, Wallace, 

 Weil, Wolf. 



Members elected: C. W. Edmunds, J. W. Draper 

 Maury, Adolph Meyer. 



By-law Adopted: One of the regular meetings ■ 

 may be held annually outside of Greater New 

 York. 



Scientific Program 



H. Gideon Wells and Harry J. Corper: Ob- 

 servations on uricolysis, with particular reference 

 to the " uric acid infarcts " in the kidneys of the 

 new born. 



L. L. Woodruff: Further studies on the life 

 cycle of Paramecium. 



W. 0. Emery and William Salant: On the 

 decomposition of caffein in the liver. 



William Salant: The comparative toxicity of 

 ethyl and amyl alcohol and their effect on blood 

 pressure. 



L. B. Stookey; Pentosuria. 



Elizabeth Cooke and Leo Loeb: The compara- 

 tive toxicity of sodium chloride and of fluorescent 

 staining solutions upon the embryos of Fundulus. 



M. S. Fleisher and Leo Loeb: The influence of 

 calcium chloride and of adrenalin upon the secre- 

 tion of urine and upon resorption from the peri- 

 toneal cavity. 



Benjamin T. Terry: Immunity to various spe- 

 cies of trypanosomes induced in mice by the cure 

 of experimental infections. 



D. D. Van Slyke and P. A. Levene: On the 

 leucin fraction in casein and edestin. 



D. D. Van Slyke: On " Clarin," Vahlen's active 

 principle of ergot. 



Daniel R. Lucas (by invitation) : Some effects 

 of sodium benzoate. ; 



Matthew Steel (by invitation) : An improve-, 

 ment of the Folin method for the determination 

 of urinary nitrogen. 



P. A. Levene and W. A. Jacobs: On nucleic 

 acids. 



Gustave M. Meyer and P. A. Levene: On the 

 behavior of amino acids and glycyl-glycin and its 

 anhydride in the organism of the dog. 



I. Levin, D. Manson and P. A. Levene: On 

 nitrogenous metabolism in dogs with gastro-en- 

 ter ostomy. 



R. M. Pearce: The depression substance of dog's 

 urine ; its disappearance in experimental acute 

 nephritis. 



Philip A. Shaffer: Observations on the metab- 

 olism in a subject of diabetes. 



EtTQENE L. Opie, 



Secretary 



