FEBRUARY 2, 1912] 
Erlanger and 8. J. Meltzer. The general discus- 
sion was participated in by W. T. Porter, J. J. R. 
Macleod, G. W. Crile, A. J. Carlson, G. T. Kemp 
and Y. Henderson... 
The following persons were elected to member- 
ship in the society: 
Rockefeller Institute—A. H. Cohn, I. 8. Kleiner, 
F. W. Bancroft. 
Johns Hopkins University—L. G. Rowntree, G. 
H. Whipple, W. E. Burge. 
University of Pennsywania—R. M. Pearce, A. 
I. Ringer. 
University of Syracuse—E. P. Knowlton, C. G. 
Rogers. 
Columbia University—H. A. Stewart. 
University of Nebraska—A. E. Guenther. 
University of Wisconsin—H. C. Bradley. 
University of California—T. C. Burnett. 
Western Reserve University—P. W. Cabb. 
Starling-Ohio Medical Schocl—R. G. Hoskins. 
Uniwersity of Chicago—A. B. Luckhardt. 
The relation of the society to the American 
Journal of Physiology continues as in the past, 
and A. J. Carlson, W. H. Howell, F. S. Lee, 
G. Lusk, S. J. Meltzer and W. T. Porter were 
appointed to constitute the editorial committee for 
the publication of the Journal during 1912. 
In the past the annual meeting of the society 
has oceupied three days of the convocation week. 
But owing to the rapidly increasing number of 
workers in the society the number of papers sub- 
mitted for the meetings has already become too 
great for proper presentation and discussion, in 
spite of the recent organization of the Biochemical 
and the Pharmacological Societies. It is generally 
felt that much of the value of these meetings is 
lost when time is lacking for adequate discussion 
of the scientific program. At the second business 
session this question was considered and the fol- 
lowing measures in the way of remedy were pro- 
posed and discussed: 
1. Extending the time of the meeting to four or 
more days. j 
2, Meeting in two or more sections according to 
subjects. 
3. Two or more meetings annually—one in the 
west and one or more in the east. _ 
_4, Limiting the number of papers (each member 
is at present virtually limited to one communica- 
tion). 
5. Dispense with the formal reading of papers, 
and devote the time to their discussion on the basis 
of printed abstract. 
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6. Changing the time of the meeting to May or 
June. 
7. A closer affiliation with the Biochemical and 
the Pharmacological Societies. 
After a prolonged and earnest discussion the 
question was referred to the council with instruc- 
tions to report at the next annual meeting, which 
will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, in December, 1912. 
The following officers were elected for the year 
1912): 
President—S. J. Meltzer, New York. 
Secretary—A. J. Carlson, Chicago. 
Treasurer—W. B. Cannon, Boston. 
Members of the Council—J. Erlanger, St. Louis, 
and F. S. Lee, New York. 
The arrangements effected by the Baltimore 
members and friends of the society contributed 
greatly to the success of the meeting. The head- 
quarters of the three societies were located in the 
same hotel, and practically all the visiting mem- 
bers were housed in this same hotel. The local 
members had agreed to dispense with private en- 
tertainments, and in their place had arranged for 
all members. and visiting friends an informal din- 
ner followed by a smoker on the evenings of 
December 27 and 28. By this delightful infor- 
mality the members were kept together and oppor- 
tunities afforded for social intercourse and in- 
formal conferences and discussions. It was gen- 
erally felt that this feature should be perpetuated 
in future meetings. 
A. J. CARLSON, 
Secretary 
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 
January, 1912 
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BIOLOGICAL 
CHEMISTS 
THE sixth annual meeting of the American So- 
ciety of Biological Chemists was held in Baltimore 
and Washington, December 27-29, 1911. The ses- 
sions in Baltimore, held in affiliation with the 
American Physiological Society and the American 
Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Thera- 
peutics, in the physiological building of the Johns 
Hopkins Medical School, were well attended, over 
forty of the members being present. 
-The- single session in Washington, at the Mc- 
Kinley High School, a joint meeting with the 
Biological Section of the American. Chemical So- 
ciety, was of exceptional interest from the stand- 
point of the character of the papers presented and 
the discussions which they elicited. The following 
