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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVII. No. 690 



of specimens, by James P. Atkinson and Arthur 

 I. Kendall. 



" The Influence of Ether Anesthesia on the Ex- 

 cretion of Nitrogen by Dogs," by Philip B. Hawk. 



" The Relative Value of Antitoxin and other 

 Curative Substances in Antidiphtheric Serum," 

 by Edna Steinhardt and Edwin J. Banzhaf. 



Twenty-sixth Meeting 



Rockefeller Institute for Medical Eesearcli, 

 New York. December 18, 1908. President 

 Flexner in the chair. 



Members elected — Edwin J. Banzhaf, Will- 

 iam N. Berg, H. D. Dakin, Charles A. Els- 

 herg, Shinkishi Hatai, Charles E. Simon, S. 

 Burt Wolbach. 



Program 



" The Effect of Light on Cells in Fluorescent 

 Solutions after Addition of Potassium Cyanide," 

 by Elizabeth Cooke and Leo Loeb. 



" Physiological Age," by C. Ward Crampton. 



" Gastric Peristalsis after Section of tUe Vagi 

 and Splanchnic Nerves," by John Auer. 



" The Effect of Stimulation of the Vagus Nerves 

 upon the Development of Rigor Mortis of the 

 Mammalian Heart," by Don R. Joseph and S. J. 

 Meltzer. 



" The Antagonistic Action of Calcium upon the 

 Inhibitory Effect of Magnesium," by S. J. Meltzer 

 and John Auer. 



" Remote Result of the Transplantation of a 

 Segment of Popliteal Artery from a Man to a 

 Bitch," by Alexis Carrel. 



" Concerning the Relation of the Coagulation 

 Time of the Blood to Thrombosis in Phlebitis," 

 by Harlow Brooks and B. C. Crowell. 



" The Reactive Power of the White Rat to Tis- 

 sue Implantation" (second communication), by 

 Isaac Levin. 



" The Hemolytic Reactions of the Blood in Dogs 

 with Transplantable Lymphosarcoma," by Richard 

 Weil. 



"On the Circulation through the Kidneys, (I.) 

 On Vaso-motor Reactions, (II.) The Renal Blood 

 Plow in Relation to the Pressure in the Ureter 

 and Bladder, (III.) The Effect of Solutions of 

 Adrenalin," by R. Burton-Opitz and D. R. Lucas. 



" Some Data regarding the Portal Circulation," 

 by R. Burton-Opitz. 



" A Clinical Viscosimeter," by R. Burton-Opitz. 



" Studies in Experimental Arteriosclerosis," by 

 Isaac Adler and 0. Hensel. 



" On the Influence of Various Substances, Ap- 

 plied Directly to the Medulla Oblongata, upon the 



Respiratory Rhythm in Frogs," by T. Brailsford 

 Robertson. 



" Metaplasia and Metastasis of a Rat Tumor," 

 by Simon Flexner and J. W. Jobling. 



Twenty-seventh Meeting 

 (Fifth Annual Business Meeting) 



Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University. 

 February 19, 1908. Vice-president Morgan 

 in the chair. 



Members elected — lu. W. Famulener, C. 

 Stuart Gager, W. S. Halsted, W. A. Jacobs, 

 Theodore C. Janeway, Don E. Joseph, Frank 

 R. Lillie, Alwin M. Pappenheimer, Donald D. 

 Van Slyke. 



Officers elected: 



President — Frederic S. Lee. 

 Vice-president — Thomas H. Morgan. 

 Treasure! — Graham Lusk. 

 Secretary — William J. Gies. 



Program, 



An exhibition of photographs of chromosomes, 

 with explanatory comment, by Edmund B. Wilson. 



" The Production of two Kinds of Spermatozoa 

 in Phylloxerans — Functional ' Female Producing ' 

 and Rudimentary Spermatozoa," by T. H. Morgan. 



" Physiological Problems of the Geographical 

 Distribution of Partula in Polynesia," with dem- 

 onstration of specimens, by Henry E. Crampton. 



" Note on the Isolation of Camaubic Acid from 

 Beef Kidneys," by Edward K. Dunham. 



" The Change of Corpuscle Resistance in the 

 Blood of Immunized Animals, Coincident with the 

 Formation of Antibodies," by Frederick P. Gay. 



" Further Observations on the Precipitation of 

 Inorganic Colloids by Sera," by Cyrus W. Field. 



" A Note on Anaphylaxis," by Edwin J. Banz- 

 haf and L. W. Famulener. 



" The Relation of Plasticity to Sex and Age in 

 the Dancing Mouse," by Robert M. Yerkes. 



" The Crystallography of Hemoglobin," by Ed- 

 ward T. Reichert and Amos P. Brown. 



" The Germicidal Property of Milk," by M. J. 

 Rosenau and Geo. W. McCoy. 



The next regular meeting will be held on. 

 April 15. William J. Gies, 



Secretary 



THE TOREEY BOTANICAL OLUB 



The meeting for January 29, 1908, was held 

 in the Museum Building of the New York 



