Januaby 18, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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Additional Members of the Council — Graham 

 Lusk, University and Bellevue Hospital Medical 

 College; John J. Abel, Johns Hopkins University. 



The following were elected to member- 

 ship: 



Dr. Eoswell Parker Angier, instructor in psy- 

 chology, Yale University. 



Dr. Philip A. Shaffer, instructor in pathological 

 Chemistry, Cornell University Medical School. 



Dr. Alexis Carrel, The Rockefeller Institute for 

 Medical Research. 



Dr. Eugene L. Opie, associate of the Rockefeller 

 Institute for Medical Research. 



Dr. Charles George Lewis Wolf, instructor in 

 physiological chemistry, Cornell University Medi- 

 cal School. 



Dr. Howard Davis Haskins, instructor in or- 

 ganic and physiological chemistry. Medical De- 

 partment, Western Reserve University. 



Dr. Donald E. Hooker, assistant in physiology, 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



Dr. John A. English Eyster, instructor in phys- 

 iology, Johns Hopkins University. 



Dr. John Raymond Murlin, assistant professor 

 in physiology. University and Bellevue Hospital 

 Medical College. 



Dr. Ross Granville Harrison, associate pro- 

 fessor of anatomy, Johns Hopkins University. 



PEOQEAM 



Wednesday, December 26, 8:30 P.M. 

 Smoker, at the Murray Hill Hotel, Park 

 Avenue and Forty-first Street. 



Thursday, December 27, 10 A.M. 

 Physiological Laboratory, the University and 

 Bellevue Hospital Medical College, Twenty-sixth 

 Street and First Avenue. 



General business. Reading of papers. 



E. H. Chittenden : ' The Minimal Proteid Re- 

 quirement of Some High Proteid Animals.' 



G. T. Kemp and L. D. Hall : ' The Formation of 

 Fat in Animals Fattened for Slaughter.' 



W. P. LOMBAED : ' The Rate of Loss of Weight 

 of Normal Man.' 



6. Lusk : ' The Influence of Mechanical Work 

 in Phlorhizin Diabetes.' 



J. R. MXJELIN (by invitation): 'The Sparing 

 Action of Gelatin.' 



P. A. Shaffee (by invitation) : 'The Effect of 

 Muscular Activity on Kreatinin Excretion; with 

 Preliminary Observations on the Excretion of 

 Kreatinin in Health and Disease.' 



O. FOLIN : ' The Occurrence and Formation of 

 Alkylamines and Alkylureas.' 



W. Salant: 'The Formation of Sugar from 

 Amino-acids.' 



G. B. Watt ACE and J. S. Diamond: 'The 

 Effects of Cocaine on the Liver.' 



W. Salant and G. M. Meyee : ' On the Elimina- 

 tion of Radium in Normal and Nephrectomized 

 Animals.' 



W. Koch : ' The Relation of Inorganic Salts to 

 Lecithin and Kephalin.' 



C. L. Alsbeeg, L. J. Hendeeson, H. B. 

 Webstee and R. Fitz: 'Contributions to the 

 Physiology of the Phosphates.' 



C. L. AiSBEEG and G. W. Hall : ' Concerning 

 Glycolysis.' 



A. S. LoEVENHAET, G. Peiece and C. G. Sotider: 

 ' Some New Observations on the Action of Lipase.' 



J. R. Mandel and P. A. Levene : ' Nucleins of 

 Codfish Roe.' 



J. A. Mandel and P. A. Levene : ' Glucothionic 

 Acid in Pus.' 



The secretary presented the question of proteid 

 nomenclature for discussion. 



The election of the council was held at 12 m. 



Friday, December 28, 10 A.M. 



Physiological laboratory, the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons, 437 West Fifty-ninth Street. 



General business. Reading of papers. 



C. F. Hodge and O. P. Dellingeb: 'Functions 

 and Structures in Amoeba proteus.' 



J. Dawson (by invitation): 'Physiological 

 Reactions of Physa.' 



R. S. Lillie: ' Production of Artificial Parthen- 

 ogenesis in Asterias Through Momentary Rais- 

 ing of Temperature.' 



E. P. Lyon and O. P. Teeby: 'Preliminary Re- 

 port on the Enzymes of Unfertilized and Fertilized 

 Eggs.' 



G. N. Stewaet: 'Experiments on Resuscita- 

 tion.' 



Y. Hendeeson: 'Artificial Regulation of the 

 Heart-rate.' 



J. Eelangee and J. R. Blackman: "On the 

 So-called ' Ligature of Stannius in the Mammalian 

 Heart.' " 



A. J. Caelson : ' On the Mechanism of the So- 

 called Refractory Period of the Heart.' 



A. J. Caelson: ' On the Relation of the Normal 

 Rhythm to the Sodium Chloride Rhythm of the 

 Heart.' 



W. T. Poetee: 'Vasomotor Reflexes.' 



C. W. Edmunds : ' The Influence ol the Digitalis 

 Series up the Velocity of the Blood Stream.' 



