July 26, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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Jacob Rosenbloom and William J. Gies: 



" Some Azolitmin Compounds of Mucoids, Nucleo- 

 proteins and Other Proteins, ^vith Exliibition of 

 Products." 



Walter E. Gakket : " Negative Evidence of the 

 Adaptation of Dog's Salivary Secretion to meet 

 the Digestive Requirement of the Diet." 



Clarence E. Mat and William J. Gies : " On 

 the Quantitative Determination of Mucoid in 

 Urine, Blood and Tissue Extracts." 



William J. Gies (by invitation): "On the 

 Nature and Objects of the American Society of 

 Biological Chemists." (See Science, 1907, XXV., 

 p. 139.) 



Executive Proceedings 



Charier mernhers. — The roll of charter 

 members, as announced by the council and 

 ratified by the society, was the following: 

 John J. Abel, J. George Adami, Carl L. Als- 

 berg, Samuel Amberg, Henry P. Armsby, 

 James P. Atkinson, A. E. Austin, Lewellys F. 

 Barker, W. A. Beatty, S. P. Beebe, Francis G. 

 Benedict, C. C. Benson, William ■ N. Berg, 

 Orville H. Brown, Russell Burton-Opitz, Rus- 

 sell H. Chittenden, H. D. Dakin, A. L. Dean, 

 Edward K. Dunham, Cyrus W. Field, Otto 

 Folin, Nellis B. Foster, C. Stuart Gager, 

 Walter E. Garrey, Robert B. Gibson, William 

 J. Gies, H. S. Grindley, John T. Halsey, H. D. 

 Haskins, Shinkishi Hatai, Robert A. Hatcher, 

 Philip B. Hawk, Lawrence J. Henderson, C. 



A. Herter, Reid Hunt, Holmes C. Jackson, 

 Walter Jones, Joseph H. Kastle, Waldemar 

 Koch, William F. Koelker, P. A. Levene, 

 Jacques Loeb, Arthur S. Loevenliart, John H. 

 Long, Graham Lusk, Francis H. McCrudden, 

 Hugh McGuigan, J. J. Mackenzie, A. B. Ma- 

 callum, J. J. R. Macleod, John A. Mandel, 

 John Marshall, Albert P. Mathews, Lafayette 



B. Mendel, Gustave M. Meyer, C. H. Neilson, 

 Frederick G. Novy, W. R. OrndorfF, Thomas 

 B. Osborne, William H. Parker, Raymond H. 

 Pond, Franz Pfaff, Alfred N. Richards, Her- 

 bert M. Richards, William Salant, Philip A. 

 Shafier, H. C. Sherman, Charles E. Simon, 

 Herbert E. Smith, Torald SoUmann, Lyman 

 B. Stookey, Alonzo E. Taylor, Frank P. Un- 

 derhill, Victor C. Vaughan, Alfred J. Wake- 

 man, George B. Wallace, William H. Welker, 

 H. Gideon Wells, Henry L. Wheeler, R. A. 

 Witthaus, C. G. L. Wolf. 



Time and place of the next meetings.— On 

 recommendation by the council it was decided 

 to hold the next meetings in Chicago, during 

 convocation week, 1907-8. 



Resolutions regarding federal supervision of 

 matters pertaining to public health. — At the 

 joint meeting of the American Physiological 

 Society and the American Society of Biolog- 

 ical Chemists (May 9) the following resolu- 

 tions were adopted by unanimous vote: 



" We approve of the movement represented 

 by the Committee of One Hundred of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science to increase and coordinate the pres- 

 ent activities of the federal government in 

 matters pertaining to public health. 



" We therefore urge upon the President of 

 the United States and members of congress 

 the favorable consideration of such legislative 

 measures as are best adapted to secure this 

 result." 



Copies of these resolutions were immediate- 

 ly forwarded to President Roosevelt, to mem- 

 bers of congress, to the Committee of One 

 Hundred of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science and to the permanent 

 secretary of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. 



William J. Gies, 



Secretary 



THE biological SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



The 431st meeting was held May 4, 1907, 

 President Stejneger in the chair. 



Professor W. W. Cooke gave a resume of 

 the present migration season. He said the 

 spring of 1907 at Washington, D. C, has been 

 characterized by extremes in temperature. 

 The last week in March and the first few 

 days in April were the warmest ever known 

 for the time of year. This excessively warm 

 spell was followed by the coldest April in 

 thirty-five years. It is interesting to note 

 how these variations from normal temperature 

 were reflected in the times of arrival of the 

 birds. Spring opened normally and the birds 

 arrived as usual until the first warm spell of 

 late March, when the Brown Thrasher ap- 

 peared seventeen days early, and the Blue- 



