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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXIX. No. 997 



"Production of Ammonia bv Herbivora as a 

 Protection Against Acidosis," by E. B. Hart and 

 E. V. Nelson (by invitation). 



"The Influence of Restricted Bations on Ee- 

 production," by E. B. Hart, E. V. MoCoUum and 

 H. Steenbock. 



"Further Studies on the Quantitative Chemical 

 Ck)mposition of Urinary Calculi," by J. Rosen- 

 bloom. . . 



"On the Quantitative Chemical Composition of 

 Gall Stones," by J. Eosenbloom. 



"Metabolism Studies in a Case of Family 

 Periodic Paralysis," by J. Eosenbloom and T. 

 Diller (by invitationl. 



"Calcium Metabolism in Thyroparathyroidect- 

 omy," by P. T. Stewart (by invitation), Olaf 

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



"Variations in the Hydrogen Ion Concentration 

 of the Urine of Man Accompanying Fasting and 

 the Low and High Protein Regeneration Periods, ' ' 

 by P. E. Howe and P. B. Hawk. 



The following papers submitted in the Ameri- 

 can Society of Biological Chemists were trans- 

 ferred with the authors' consent and in accord- 

 ance with the principles of the Federation, to the 

 program of one of the other societies: 



Presented before the American Physiological 

 Society: . 



"The Maximum Surface Tension m Striated 

 Muscle," by W. N. Berg. (By title.) 



"Sources of Surface Tension in Striated 

 Muscle," by W. N. Berg. 



' ' Transfusion of Blood in Severe Diabetes Mel- 

 litus," by E. T. Woodyatt and B. O. Raulston (by 

 invitation) . 



Presented before the American Society for 

 Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics: 



"The Production of Glycosuria by Zinc Salts," 

 by "W. Salant and M. Kahn. 



"Further Observations of Caffeine Glycosuria," 

 by W. Salant and M. Kahn. 



"Studies Upon the Long-continued Feeding of 

 Saponine," by C. L. Alsberg and C. S. Smith. 



New Members. — Dr. Shiro Tashiro, University 

 of Chicago, Chicago, 111.; Dr. E. K. Marshall, Jr., 

 Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Md.; 

 Professor E. S. Lillie, Clark University, Worces- 

 ter, Mass.; Dr. K. G. Falk, Harriman Research 

 Laboratory, Roosevelt Hospital, New York; Dr. 

 F. C. Cook, Bureau of Chemistry, Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C; Dr. W. H. Eddy, 

 Columbia University, New York; Professor R. F. 

 Euttan, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; 

 Dr. H. B. Lewis, University of Pennsylvania, 

 Philadelphia, Pa.; Dr. C. J. West, Rockefeller 

 Institute, New York : Dr. E. C. Kendall, St. Luke 's 

 Hospital, New York; Dr. G. W. Raiziss, Poly- 

 clinic Hospital, 1818 Lombard Street, Philadel- 

 phia Pa.; Professor A. D. Hirschf elder. Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 



Officers Elected. — The following officers were 

 elected for the year 1914: 

 President: Graham Lusk. 

 Vice-president: C. L. Alsberg. 



Secretary: P. A. Shaffer. 



Treasurer: D. D. Van Slyke. 



Additicmal Members of the Coimcil: J. J. Abel^ 



A. B. Macallum, T. B. Osborne. 



Nominating Committee. — S. E. Benedict, H. S. 

 Bradley, Otto Folin, W. J. Gies, J. H. Kastle, J. 



B. Leathes, P. A. Levene, L. B. Mendel, H. G. 

 Wells. 



The society voted its formal approval of the es- 

 tablishment of the Federation of American So- 

 cieties for Experimental Biology, comprising the 

 American Physiological Society, American Society 

 of Biological Chemists and the American Society 

 for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 

 The society also voted in favor of admitting to 

 the federation the newly organized American So- 

 ciety for Experimental Pathology. 



A unanimous vote of thanks was extended by 

 the society to the individual members of the "lo- 

 cal committee, ' ' to the University of Pennsylvania 

 and to the Jefferson Medical College for the hos- 

 pitality which the society enjoyed. 



The following members were present at one or 

 more of the sessions of the meetings : J. J. Abel, 



C. L. Alsberg, S. Amberg, L. Baumann, S. P, 

 Beebe, W. N. Berg, W. E. Bloor, H. C. Bradley, 

 H. H. Bunzel, E. Burton-Opitz, E. D. Clark, P. C, 

 Cook, H. D. Dakin, Willey Denis, W. H. Eddy, 

 Otto Folin, W. J. Gies, I. Greenwald, Shinkishi 

 Hatai, R. A. Hatcher, P. B. Hawk, L. J. Header 

 son, P. E. Howe, W. H. Howell, R. Hunt, A. 

 Hunter, N. W. Janney, W. Jones, I. S. Kleiner, 

 P. A. Kober, J. B. Leathes, J. Loeb, A. S. Loeven 

 hart, Graham Lusk, A. B. Macallum, J. J. Mac 

 leod, W. deB. NacNider, W. McK. Marriott, E. K. 

 Marshall, J. Marshall, E. V. McCollum, F. H. Mc- 

 Crudden, H. McGuigan, L. B. Mendel, P. H 

 Mitchell, J. R. Murlin, V. C. Myers. T. B. OS' 

 borne, A. W. Peters, G. W. Eaiziss, A. N. Richards, 

 A. I. Ringer, E. W. Rockwood, L. G. Eowntree, 

 Wm. Salant, F. H. Scott, P. A. Shaffer, T. SoU- 

 mann, Shiro Tashiro, A. E. Taylor, F. P. Under- 

 bill, D. D. Van Slyke, C. Voegtlin, G. B. Wallace, 

 H. G. Wells, E. T. Woodyatt. 



Abstracts of the papers will be published in the 

 Journal of Biological Chemistry. 



P. A. Shaffer, 



Secretary 

 Washington University 

 Medical School, 

 St. Louis, Missouki 



THE AMESICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECO- 

 NOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



The 26th annual meeting of the association was 

 held in the Atlanta Medical CoUege, Atlanta, Ga., 

 December 31, 1913, to January 2, 1914, under the 

 presidency of Professor P. J. Parrott, Geneva, 

 N. Y. 



