January 22, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



143 



F. C. McLean, ' ' On the Concentration of Sodium 

 Chloride in the Serum and its Eolation to the 

 Rate of Excretion in Normal and Diabetic Men." 



F. S. Lee and D. J. Edwards, "The Action of 

 Certain Atmospheric Conditions on Blood Pressure 

 and Heart Rate." 



M. L. Fleisher and Leo Loeb, "The Lytic Ac- 

 tion of Tissues on Blood Coagulum. " 



Ida H. Hyde, "The Influence of Light on the 

 Development of Vorticella. " 



A. L. Beifeld, H. Wheelon and C. E. Lovelette, 

 "The Effect of Pancreas Extract on Sympathetic 

 Irritability. ' ' 



B. H. Schlomovitz, J. A. E. Eyster and W. J. 

 Meek, "Distribution of Chromotropio Vagus Fi- 

 bers within the Sino-aurieular Node." 



Ida H. Hyde, "The Eolation of the Nervous 

 System to a Tunicate Larva." 



J. E. Murlin and B. Kramer, ' ' The Influence of 

 Sodium Carbonate on the Glycosuria, Hypergly- 

 cffimia and the Eespiratory Metabolism of Depan- 

 ereatized Dogs." 



J. J. E. Maeleod, "The Possibility that some of 

 the Hepatic Glycogen may Become converted into 

 Other Substances than Dextrose." 



E. T. Woodyatt, "Narcotics in Phlorhizin Dia- 

 betes. ' ' 



E. S. Hoskins, "Adrenal Deficiency." 

 H. McGuigan, " Hypoglycsemia. " 



J. Auer and F. L. Gates, "Some Effects of 

 Adrenalin when Injected into the Eespiratory 

 Tract. ' ' 



B. W. Keeton and F. C. Koch, "The Distribu- 

 tion of Gastrin in the Body." 



F. T. Eogers and -L. L. Hardt, ' ' The Eelation of 

 the Digestion Intractions to the Hunger Contrac- 

 tions of the Stomach (Dog, Man)." 



F. D. Zeaman, J. Kohn and P. E. Howe, "Re- 

 cuperation: Nitrogen Metabolism of a Man when 

 Ingesting Successively a Non-protein and a Nor- 

 mal Diet after a Seven-day Fast." 



H. C. Bradley, ' ' Some Studies in Autolysis. ' ' 



H. McGuigan and C. L. V. Hess, "The Diastase 

 of the Blood." 



W. E. Burge, "The Bate of Oxidation of En- 

 zymes and their Corresponding Pro-enzymes." 



C. Voegtlin, ' ' The Harmful Effect of am Exclu- 

 sive Vegetable Diet." 



E. L. Opie and L. B. Alford, "Fat Infiltration 

 of the Liver and Kidney induced by Diet." 



V. H. Mottram, "On the Nature of the Hepatic 

 Patty Infiltration in Late Pregnancy and Early 

 Lactation. ' ' 



F. B. Kingsbury and E. T. Bell, "The Synthesis 

 of Hippuric Acid in Experimental Tartrate Ne- 

 phritis in the Babbit." 



C. Brooks and A. B. Luckhardt, "Blood Pres- 

 sure Methods." 



J. Erlanger and W. E. Garrey, "Demonstration 

 of a Point-to-point Method for Analyzing Induc- 

 tion Shocks by Means of the String Galvanom- 

 eter. ' ' 



B. M. Patten, "A Device for Projecting a Small 

 Spot of Light Suitable for Exploring Photo-sensi- 

 tive Areas." 



S. Amberg and D. MeClure, "Demonstration of 

 the Effect of Sodiumiodoxybenzoate on Inflamma- 

 tion Caused by Mustard Oil." 



Worth Hale, "An Arrangement of the Porter 

 Clock to give Three Time Intervals at the Same 

 Time. ' ' 



F. L. Gates, "A Portable Eespiratory Machine 

 Furnishing Continuous, Intermittent and Eemit- 

 tent Streams of Air." 



P. A. Shaffer, "The Determination of Blood 

 Sugar. ' ' 



Eight papers were placed on the program to be 

 read by title only. But besides these eight papers, 

 sixteen additional communications placed on the 

 program to be reported were read by title only, 

 owing to the authors being absent from the meet- 

 ing. It needs scarcely be pointed out that the 

 failure of these 16 papers seriously marred the 

 scientific program. The secretary hopes that this 

 meeting will stand as the high water mark of the 

 disgraceful habit of reporting papers to be read 

 without going to the meeting to present them. In 

 cases of unavoidable absence through sickness, the 

 secretary should be notified, so that readjustments 

 may be made even after the program is in print. 

 And as for those who ask to be placed on the pro- 

 gram and then choose to stay away from the meet- 

 ings the secretary feels that the annual meetings 

 of our society are too important to be made the 

 subject of practical jokes of that type. 



Some important changes in the constitution 

 were adopted. The importance of research as the 

 qualification for election to membership in the so- 

 ciety was more explicitly emphasized. Voting by 

 mail or proxy was abolished. The management of 

 the American Journal of Physiology, owned and 

 published by the society, was entrusted to the coun- 

 cil; and the council was enlarged from five to 

 seven members. 



In recognition of Dr. W. T. Porter's great serv- 

 ice to physiology in founding the American Jour- 



