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is a list of the communications which were offered 
at these meetings: 
BALTIMORE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2:00 P.M. 
W. R. Blatherwick, C. P. Sherwin and P. B. 
Hawk: Intestinal Putrefaction and Bacterial De- 
velopment accompanying Water Drinking and 
Fasting. 
Amos W. Peters: Essential Conditions of Accu- 
racy and Rapidity for the Determination of Sugar 
by the Methods of Copper Reduction. 
S. R. Benedict: Preparation of Creatine and 
Creatinine from Urine. 
S. R. Benedict: Estimation of Creatinine. 
H. 8S. Raper: The Fate of Fat which Enters the 
Blood Stream. 
H. Gideon Wells: Purines and Purine Enzymes 
of Tumors. 
Fletcher McPhedron: Hemolytic Power of Fatty 
Acids. 
P. A. Shaffer: A New Salt of B-Oxybutyric 
Acid. 
Lawrence T. Fairhall and P. B. Hawk: The 
Allantoin Output of Man after Water Ingestion. 
The following papers were read by title: 
EK. B. Hart, E. V. McCollum and H. Steenbock: 
Physiological Effects on Growth and Reproduction 
of Rations Balanced from Restricted Sources. 
E. V. McCollum and J. G. Halpin: Synthesis of 
Lecithins in the Hen. 
KH. B. Hart and H. Steenbock: Effect of High 
Magnesium Intake on Calcium Excretion by Pigs. 
E. V. McCollum: Relation between Nitrogen 
Retention and the Rise of Creatinine Excreted 
during the Growth of the Pig. 
EK. V. McCollum: Comparison of the Nutritive 
Value for Growing Pigs of the Nitrogen from the 
Oat and Wheat Grains. 
E. V. McCollum and E. B. Hart: Experiments 
on Feeding Dissected Milks. 
BALTIMORE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 9:00 A.M. 
(Joint session with the American Physiological 
Society) 
J. R. Murlin and H. C. Bailey: The Urine of 
Late Pregnancy and the Puerperium. 
C. W. Greene: The Storage of Fat in the Sal- 
mon Muscle Tissue and its Resorption during the 
Migration Fast. 
H. C. Bradley and H. S. Gasser: Intestinal 
Absorption. 
J. J. R. Macleod: The Relationship of the 
Suprarenal Glands to Sugar Production by the 
Liver. 
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Victor C. Meyers and G. O. Volovic: Metabolism 
in an Experimental Fever with Special Reference 
to Creatinine Elimination. 
Thomas B. Osborne and Lafayette B. Mendel: 
The Réle of Proteins in Growth. 
A. B. Macallum: The Réle of Surface Tension 
in the Distribution of Salts in Living Matter. 
I. S. Kleiner and S. J. Meltzer: A Comparison 
of the Effects of Subcutaneous and Intravenous 
Injections of Adrenalin upon the Production of 
Glycosuria. 
H. B. Williams, J. A. Riche and Graham Lusk: 
The Hourly Chemical and Energy Transformations 
in the Dog which Follow the Ingestion of Meat. 
Andrew Hunter and Sutherland Simpson: The 
Iodine Content of Thyroid Glands of Sheep Fed 
Mainly upon Marine Alge. 
Edward B. Meigs and L. A. Ryan: The Chem- 
ical Constituents of the Ash of Smooth Muscle. 
BALTIMORE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2:00 P.M. 
H. H. Bunzel: Measurements of Oxidases. 
J. R. Murlin and H. J. Muller: Creatine Elim- 
ination in the Pregnant Dog. 
J. J. R. Macleod, C. D. Christie and J. D. Don- 
aldson: The Estimation of Dextrose in Blood and 
Urine by the Difference in Reducing Power before 
and after Yeast Fermentation. 
Torald Sollman (for P. J. Hanzlik): Recovery 
of Alcohol from Animal Tissues. 
Otto Folin and F. F. Flanders: A New Method 
for the Determination of Hippuric Acid (and 
Benzoic Acid) in Urine. 
H. C. Bradley: Synthetic Action of Enzymes. 
Paul E. Howe and P. B. Hawk: A Metabolism 
Study on a Fasting Man. 
Paul E. Howe and P. B. Hawk: Hydrogen Ion 
Concentration of the Feces. 
The following papers were read by title: 
H. C. Jackson: Changes in the Composition of 
Blood and Muscle following Double Nephrectomy 
and Bilateral Ureteral Ligation. 
C. C. Benson: Note on the Inorganic Constitu- 
ents of Human Blood. 
P. A. Levene and W. A. Jacobs: On Sphingosin. 
P. A. Levene and G. M. Meyer: On Glycolysis. 
P. A. Levene and D. D. Van Slyke: On the 
Pierates of Glycocoll. 
H. C. Bradley: Connective Tissues of Limulus. 
C. F. Langworthy and R. D. Milner: The Respi- 
ration Calorimeter and its Uses for the Study of 
Problems of Vegetable Physiology. 
