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tion regarding the aims, the achievements and pro- 

 cedures of animal experimentation. We deplore 

 the persistent misrepresentation of these aims, 

 achievements and procedures by those who are op- 

 posed to this scientific method. We protest against 

 the frequent denunciations of self-sacrificing, 

 high-minded men of science who are devoting 

 their lives to the welfare of mankind in efforts to 

 solve the complicated problems of living beings 

 and their diseases. 



Executive Committee of the Federation for tlie 

 Tear 1914.— W. B. Cannon, A. J. Carlson, the 

 Physiological Society; G. Lusk, P. A. Shaffer, the 

 Biochemical Society; T. Sollmann, J. Auer, the 

 Pharmacological Society; R. M. Pearce, G. H. 

 Whipple, the Pathological Society; G. Lusk, Chair- 

 man; P. A. Shaffer, Secretary, 



A. J. Carlson, 

 Secretary of the Executive Committee, 1913 

 Univeesity of Chicago, 

 January 10, 1914 



TRE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BIOLOGICAL 

 CHEMISTS 



The eighth annual meeting of the American So- 

 ciety of Biological Chemists was held at Philadel- 

 phia on December 29, 30, 31, 1913, in afSliation 

 with the American Physiological Society and the 

 American Society for Pharmacology and Experi- 

 mental Therapeutics, as the first meeting of the 

 Federation of American Societies for Experimental 

 Biology. The meetings of the society were well 

 attended and highly successful. The joint meet- 

 ings, as in past years, were of great interest to the 

 members of all of the societies, and these, together 

 with the cooperation in the arrangement and 

 printing of programs, emphasized the advantages 

 of the closer relations between the societies made 

 permanent by the formation of the federation. 

 The scientific programs are appended. 



First Session. — December 29, 9 a.m., at the Jef- 

 ferson Medical College. Joint session with the 

 American Physiological Society and the American 

 Society for Pharmacology and Experimental 

 Therapeutics, as the first session of the federation. 

 Presiding oificer, S. J. Meltzer, president of the 

 American Physiological Society and chairman of 

 the federation. 



Presidential address, ' ' Theories of Anesthesia, ' ' 

 by S. J. Meltzer. 



"Phlorhizin Glycosuria before and after Thy- 

 roidectomy," by Graham Lusk. 



"Studies in Diabetes: (1) The Effect of Differ- 

 ent Compounds on Glycogenesis " ; (2) "The 

 Mechanism of Antiketogenesis, " by A. I. Ringer 

 and E. M. Frankel (by invitation). 



"Some Problems of Grovrth: (a) The Capacity 

 to Grow; (6) The Role of Amino Acids in 

 Growth, " by L. B. Mendel and T. B. Osborne. 



"Further Studies in the Comparative Biochem- 

 istry of Purine Metabolism," by Andrew Hunter. 



"Changes in Fats during Absorption," by W. 

 R. Bloor. 



' ' Immunization against the Anti-coagulating 

 Effect of Leech Extract," by Leo Loeb. (By 

 title.) 



"Anaphylaxis in the Cat and Opossum," by C. 

 W. Edmunds. 



" Vividiffusion ; Report on Preliminary Results," 

 by J. J. Abel, L. G. Rowntree and B. B. Turner. 



' ' A Method of Dialyzing Normal Circulating 

 Blood and Some of Its Applications, " by C. L. V. 

 Hess (by invitation) and H. McGuigan. 



"A Biological Test for Iodine in the Blood," 

 by A. Woelfel and A. L. Tatum (by invitation). 



' ' Further Studies of the Excretion of Acids, ' ' 

 by L. G. Henderson and W. W. Palmer (by invita- 

 tion). 



Second Session. — December 29, 2:30 P.M. at the 

 Jefferson Medical College. Presiding officer, Pres- 

 ident A. B. Macallum. 



Presidential address, ' ' The Physics of Secretion 

 and Excretion, " by A. B. Macallum. 



' ' The So-called Vegetable Proteoses and their 

 Biological Reactions," by H. G. Wells and T. B. 

 Osborne. 



' ' Some Anaphylactic Reactions, " by H. C. Brad- 

 ley. 



' ' The Mode of Action of Soy Bean Urease, ' ' by 

 D. D. Van Slyke and Glen E. Cullen (by invita- 

 tion). 



"Glycol Aldehyde in Phlorhinized Dogs," ly 

 R. T. Woodyatt. (By title.) 



" Trikresol as a Substitute for Toluene in 

 Enzyme Work, " by P. A. Kober and S. S. Graves 

 (by invitation). 



"A Study of the Metabolism in Osteitis De- 

 formans," by J. C. DaCosta, E. H. Funk, Olaf 

 Bergeim (by invitation) and P. B. Hawk. 



' ' Metabolism in Diabetes Insipidus, " by S. 

 Bookman. (By title.) 



' ' Some Metabolic Effects of Bathing in the 

 Great Salt Lake," by H. I. Mattill (by invitation) 

 and H. A. Mattill. (By title.) 



' ' Absorption of Antitoxin from Solutions Con- 

 taining Different Percentages of Protein, " i by W. 

 H. Park, E. J. Banzhaf and L. W. Famulener. 



Third Session. — December 30, 9 a.m., at the 

 University of Pennsylvania. Presiding officer. 

 President A. B. Macallum. 



' ' The Carbohydrate Tolerance of Feeble-minded 

 Children, especially of the Mongolian Type," by 

 A. W. Peters and M. E. Turnbull (by invitation). 



1 Transferred from the Pharmacological Society. 



