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The way may seem, clear to Professor Lewis 

 to break away from some other man's founda- 

 tion and give us a new American histology 

 written on broad and generous lines. 



W. S. M. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES 

 The June number (volume 13, number 9) 

 of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical 

 Society contains the following articles: Re- 

 port of the April Meeting of the American 

 Mathematical Society, by F. N. Cole; Eeport 

 of the March Meeting of the Chicago Section, 

 by H. E. Slaught; " On a Limit of the Boots 

 of an Equation that is Independent of All 

 but Two of the Coefficients," by E. E. Allar- 

 dice; "On the Distance from a Point to a 

 Surface," by Paul Saurel ; " The Calculus in 

 Our Colleges and Technical Schools " (Presi- 

 dential Address), by W. E. Osgood; " Notes "; 

 " New Publications." 



The July number, concluding the volume, 

 contains : " Modular Theory of Group Char- 

 acters," by L. E. Dickson ; " On the Shortest 

 Distance between Consecutive Straight 

 Lines," by Joseph Lipke; " Note on the Com- 

 mutator of Two Operators," by G. A. Miller; 

 " A Theorem in the Theory of Numbers," by 

 D. N. Lehmer; "Projections of the Globe 

 Appropriate for Laboratory Methods of Study- 

 ing the General Circulation of the Atmos- 

 phere," by Cleveland Abbe; Shorter Notices 

 (Fazzari's Breve Storia della Matematica dai 

 tempi antichi al medio evo, by D. E. Smith; 

 Vessiot's Legons de Geometric superieure, by 

 C L. E. Moore; Liebmann's Nichteuklidische 

 Geometric, by E. B. Cowley; Fisher's Intro- 

 duction to the Infinitesimal Calculus, by E. L. 

 Dodd; Baire's Fonctions discontinues, by W. 

 D. A. Westfall; Campbell's and Cohen's Dif- 

 ferential Equations, by C. R. Maclnnes; 

 James's Kinematics of a Point and Eational 

 Mechanics of a Particle, and Andoyer's Cours 

 d' Astronomic, by K. Laves ; Foppl's Mechanik, 

 third edition, and Gauss's Works, volume 7, 

 by E. B. Wilson); "Notes"; "New Publica- 

 tions " ; " Annual List of Published Paper? " ; 

 Index of the volume. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES 



AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTS 



The recently organized American Society 

 of Biological Chemists' had its first special 

 session in Washington, D. C, May 8 and 9, 

 1907. Four meetings were held, one of which 

 was in afiiliation with the American Physi- 

 ological Society" and another in affiliation 

 with the Washington Section of the American 

 Chemical Society.' 



Members present at one or more meetings — 

 John J. Abel, A. E. Austin, Lewellys E. 

 Barker, S. P. Beebe, H. D. Dakin, Edward 

 K. Dunham, Otto Folin, William J. Gies, C. 

 A. Herter, Holmes C. Jackson, Joseph H. 

 Kastle, Arthur S. Loevenhart, Graham Lusk, 

 A. B. MacaUum, John A. Mandel, John Mar- 

 shall, Lafayette B. Mendel, Alfred N. Rich- 

 ards, Philip A. Shaffer, Herbert E. Smith, 

 Torald SoUmann, Alonzo E. Taylor, Victor 

 C. Vaughan, George B. Wallace, H. Gideon 

 Wells, C. G. L. Wolf. 



Scientific Programs* 

 First meeting 



George Washington Medical College. 

 Wednesday morning, May 8. 



Presiding officer: The Vice-President, John 

 J. Abel. 



John J. Abel : " On the Behavior of Frog's 

 Muscle toward Acids." 



Joseph H. Kastle and H. L. Amoss : " A Kew 

 Reagent for the Recognition and Estimation of 

 Free Hydrochloric Acid in Gastric Contents." 



Joseph H. Kastle: " Phenolphthalin as a Re- 

 agent for Oxidases and Other Oxidizing Sub- 

 stances in Plant and Animal Tissues." 



Philip A. Shaffee: "Protein Metabolism in 

 Exophthalmic Goitre." 



C. A. Hertee: "On the Bacterial Production 

 of Skatol and its Occurrence in the Human In- 

 testinal Tract." 



H. Gideon Wells : " The Chemical Composition 

 of the Liver in Acute Yellow Atrophy." 



G. VoEGTUN (by invitation): "The Appear- 



' Science, 1907, XXV., p. 139. 



= Science, 1907, XXV., p. 861. 



"Science, 1907, XXV., p. 969. 



* Abstracts of the communications appeared in 

 the Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1907, III., 

 p. vii. 



