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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLI. No. 1054 



THE AMEBICAN SOCIETY OF BIOLOGICAL 



CHEMISTS 



The ninth annual meeting of the society was 

 held at St. Louis on December 28, 29, 30, 1914, in 

 the laboratories of the Washington University Med- 

 ical School. Three joint sessions were held with 

 the other societies composing the federation in 

 addition to two sessions conducted independently. 



The following communications were presented 

 at the independent sessions of the society and from 

 this society at the joint sessions. The titles of 

 other papers which were presented from the other 

 societies at the joint sessions have been given in 

 the account of the meetings of the Physiological 

 Society.i 



' ' The Influence of Food on Metabolism, ' ' presi- 

 dential address, by Graham Lusk. 



"The Excretion of Creatine During Fasting," 

 by F. D. Zeman (by invitation) and P. E. Howe. 



' ' The Determination of Creatine and Creatinine 

 in Urine; and the Occurrence of Creatine," by 

 J. L. Morris (by invitation). 



"A Method for Determining and Comparing the 

 Local Toxicity of Chemical Compounds," by H. J. 

 Corper. 



' ' Experiments with Pure d-1-Glycerie Aldehyde, ' ' 

 by R. T. Woodyatt. 



' ' The Level of Sugar in the Blood Flowing from 

 the Liver under Laboratory Conditions," by J. J. 

 E. Macleod and R. G. Pearee. 



"The Level of Blood-sugar in the Dog," by 

 P. A. Shaffer and R. S. Hubbard (by invitation). 



"A Method for the Decomposition of the Pro- 

 teins of the Thyroid with a Description of Certain 

 Constituents," by E. C. Kendall. 



"Variations in Factors Associated with Acidity 

 of Human Urine During a Seven-day Fast and 

 During the Subsequent Non-protein and Normal 

 Feeding Periods," by F. D. Zeman (by invitation), 

 Jerome Kohn (by invitation) and P. E. Howe. 



"The Mechanism of the Toxicity of Halogen 

 Narcotics," by E. A. Graham (by invitation). 



' ' On the Relation of the Oxygen Tension of the 

 Atmosphere to Combustion," by H. C. DoUwig 

 (by invitation), A. C. Kolls (by invitation) and 

 A. S. Loevenhart. 



"The Influence of Sodium Carbonate on the 

 Glycosuria, Hyperglycsemia and the Respiratory 

 Metabolism of Depancreatized Dogs," by J. E. 

 Murlin and B. Kramer (by invitation). 



' ' The Possibility that Some of the Hepatic Gly- 



1 Science, January 22, 1915, p. 142. 



cogen May Become Converted into other Sub- 

 stances than Dextrose," by J. J. R. Macleod. 



"Narcotics in Phlorhizin Diabetes," by E. T. 

 Woodyatt. 



"Some Studies in Autolysis," by H. C. Brad- 

 ley. 



"On the Nature of the Hepatic Fatty Infiltra- 

 tion in Late Pregnancy and Early Lactation," by 

 V. H. Mottram (by invitation). 



"The Synthesis of Hippuric Acid in Experi- 

 mental Tartrate Nephritis in the Rabbit," by F. 

 B. Kingsbury (by invitation) and E. T. Bell (by 

 invitation). 



"The Determination of Blood Sugar" (dem- 

 onstration), by P. A. Shaffer. 



New Members — Olaf Bergeim, Jefferson Med- 

 ical College, Philadelphia, Pa.; Alex. T. Cameron, 

 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; G. H. 



A. Clowes, Gratwick Laboratory, Buffalo, N. Y.; 



B. M. Duggar, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. 

 Louis, Mo.; Cyrus H. Piske, Harvard Medical 

 School, Boston, Mass.; E. A. Hall, University of 

 Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.; C. G. Imrie, Uni- 

 versity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Benjamin 

 Kramer, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, la.; 

 A. Bruce Macallum, University of Toronto, To- 

 ronto, Canada; J. F. McClendon, University of 

 Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.; J. Lucien Morris, 

 Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, 

 Mo.; Max Morse, University of Wisconsin, Madi- 

 son, Wis.; V. H. Mottram, McGill University, 

 Montreal, Canada; C. F. Nelson, University of 

 Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas; E. L. Ross, North- 

 western University Medical School, Chicago, 111.; 

 E. C. Shorey, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Officers Elected — The following officers were 

 elected for the year 1915: 



President — ^Walter Jones. 



Vice-president — Carl L. Alsberg. 



Secretary — P. A. Shaffer. 



Treasurer — D. D. Van Slyke. 



Additional Members of the Council — Otto Folin, 

 Graham Lusk, L. B. Mendel. 



Nominating Committee — J. J. Abel, S. R. Bene- 

 dict, H. D. Dakin, P. B. Hawk, J. J. R. Macleod, 

 E. V. MeCollum, V. C. Myers, T. B. Osborne, A. N. 

 Richards. 



Abstracts of the papers presented will be pub- 

 lished in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. 

 P. A. Shaffer, 



Secretary 



Washington University Medical School, 

 St. Louis, Mo. 



