January 19, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



1G9 



President — ^A. P. Brigham, Colgate University. 

 Vice-President — G. M. Turner, Buffalo. 

 Secretary — J. E. Stannard, Owego. 



The important matter of a biological survey 

 of the state of New York was proposed in a 

 paper by Professor Charles Wright Dodge, of 

 the University of Rochester, and advocated by 

 Director John M. Clarke, of Albany. Messrs. 

 C. W. Dodge, of Rochester, C. W. Hargitt, of 

 Syracuse University, and C. W. Hahn, of the 

 Commercial High School, New York, were 

 appointed a committee to further the project. 

 The completion of ten years of fruitful work 

 on the part of the association was made the 

 subject of a special session, in which tke four 

 sections were represented by Professor Will- 

 iam Hallock, of Columbia University, Pro- 

 fessor A. D. Morrill, of Hamilton College, 

 Principal C. T. McParlane, of Brockport Nor- 

 mal School, and Professor E. D. Roe, of 

 Syracuse University. Their addresses re- 

 viewed progress and looked into the future. 



The section meetings were strongly sus- 

 tained, and were largely given to practical 

 discussions arising from the new regents' syl- 

 labus in the several departments. The asso- 

 ciation expressed itself favora"bly as regards 

 the federation of the educational bodies of the 

 state, provided its identity is fully preserved 

 and it retains full liberty in all matters, par- 

 ticularly time and place of meeting. Ithaca 

 was recommended to the incoming oificers as 

 the place for the next annual session. The 

 association recorded itself as favoring legis- 

 lation now pending in congTess in regard to 

 the adoption of the metric system, and joins 

 with other bodies in certain recommendations 

 concerning the teaching about narcotics and 

 stimulants. The president for the coming 

 year is Professor John P. Woodhull, of the 

 Teachers College, Columbia University. 



A. P. B. 



THE SOCIETY FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND 

 MEDICINE. 



The fourteenth meeting of the Society for 

 Experimental Biology and Medicine was held 

 in the Rockefeller Institute, on Wednesday 

 evening, December 20. The president, Ed- 

 mund B. Wilson, was in the chair. 



Members present — Adler, Atkinson, Auer, 

 Beebe, Brooks, Burton-Opitz, Calkins, Cramp- 

 ton, Davenport, Dunham, Emerson, Ewing, 

 Field, Elexner, Gibson, Gies, Hatcher, Jack- 

 son,' Levene, Levin, Lusk, A. R. Mandel, 

 Meltzer, Morgan, Noguchi, Oertel, Opie, 

 Pearce,' Salant, Shaffer, Wadsworth, Wallace, 

 Wilson, Wolf, Wood. 



Members elected — W. E. Castle, H. H. Don- 

 aldson, David L. Edsall, Thomas Flournoy, 

 R. B. Gibson, Walter Jones, A. S. Loevenhart, 

 John A. Mandel, Fritz Schwyzer, Frank P. 

 Underbill, Francis C. Wood. 



Ahsiracis of Reports of Original 

 Investigations.^ 

 The Action of Eosin upon TetamiS-toxin and 

 in Tetanus, with Demonstrations: Simon 

 Flexner and Hideyo Noguchi. 

 Eosin and certain other anilin dyes have 

 the power of preventing in vitro the hemolytic 

 activity of tetanus-toxin. Eosin destroys 

 tetano-spasmin. Simultaneous injection of 

 tetanus-toxin and eosin into rats delays or 

 prevents the appearance of the symptoms of 

 tetanus. When the symptoms appear they 

 progress more slowly than in control animals. 

 The Action of Eosin and Erythrosin upon 

 Snake Venom, with Demonstrations : Hideyo 

 Noguchi. (Communicated by Simon Flex- 

 ner.) 



The hemolytic principles of venom react dif- 

 ferently to eosin, depending upon their native 

 labilities. The hemolysin of Grotalus venom 

 suffers most; that of Dahoia next, while that 

 of Cohra is most resistant. The toxicity of 

 different venoms is more or less diminished 

 by eosin in the light. Neurotoxin is little or 

 not at all affected by eosin or erythrosin. 

 On Decomposition of Purin Bodies hy Animal- 

 Tissues: P. A. Levene and W. A. Beatty. 

 The authors have found that the presence 

 of 0.5 per cent, of sodium carbonate in mix- 

 ' Non-resident. 



- The abstracts presented in this account of -the 

 proceedings have been greatly condensed from ab- 

 stracts given to the Secretary by the authors them- 

 selves. The latter abstracts of the communica- 

 tions may be found in current numbers of Amer- 

 ican Medicine and Medical Neics. 



