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"An Improved Slide for Blood Counting," by 

 Theodore Hough. 



"A Motor-driven Airblast Interrupter for Arti- 

 ficial Eespiration, " by W. B. Cannon. 



"A Mine Eescue Breathing Apparatus," by 

 Tandell Henderson. 



"A Method of Studying Eespiration in the 

 Eat," by H. G. Barbour and L. L. Maurer (by in- 

 vitation). 



"Insufflation Through the Humerus in Fowl," 

 by A. L. Meyer (by invitation), and S. J. Meltzer. 



' ' A Simplified Procedure for the Determination 

 of Carbon Dioxide Tension in the Alveolar Air," 

 by W. McK. Marriott. 



"A Quantitative Pump for Prolonged Intra- 

 venous Injections, " by E. T. Woodyatt. 



"Some New Apparatus," by D'. E. Jackson. 



"Apparatus for Recording Graphically the 

 Movements of Melanophores, ' ' by Raymond Spaeth 

 (by invitation). 



"Further Studies on the Elective Localization 

 of Streptococci," by Edward C. Rosenow. 



"The Perfected 'Shadow Pupillometer, ' " by 

 George W. Fitz. 



"A Simple Rheostat for Laboratory Use," by 

 E. G. Martin. 



"A Motor-driven Circuit Breaker," by E. G. 

 Martin. 



Executive Committee for the Year 1916: Chair- 

 man, Simon Flexner, secretary, Peyton Rous, for 

 the Pathological Society; W. B. Cannon and C. W. 

 Greene, the Physiological Society; Walter Jones 

 and Stanley R. Benedict, the Biochemical Society; 

 Eeid Hunt and John Auer, the Pharmacological 

 Society. 



The next annual session of the Federation will 

 be held in New York City, together with the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 J. AXTER, 

 Secretary of the Executive Committee, 1&15 



EOCKEPELLEE INSTITUTE 



THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PHAR- 

 MACOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL 

 THERAPEUTICS 



The seventh annual session of the Pharmacolog- 

 ical Society was held in Boston at the Harvard 

 Medical School on December 27, 28 and 29, 1915. 

 Three sessions were independent and two were 

 joint meetings with the other members of the fed- 

 eration. 



The scientific sessions were opened on Monday 

 morning, December 27, in accordance with custom, 

 by a joint session of the four societies forming the 

 federation. The papers read at this meeting will 

 be found in the preceding account of the federa- 

 tion. 



The first independent session was held on Mon- 

 day afternoon and the following papers were read 

 and discussed: 



' ' The Effect of Drugs on Auricular Systole and 

 Their Consequent Effect on Ventricular Effi- 

 ciency," by C. J. Wiggers. 



"A Study of the Potency of Digitalis Prepara- 

 tions, " by J. H. Pratt and C. Wesselhoef t (by in- 

 vitation). 



"The Influence of Iodine on the Heart," by 

 Wm. Salant and A. E. Livingston (by invitation). 

 (Read by title.) 



"The Effect of Certain Drugs on the Excised 

 Uterus in Guinea-Pigs, " by J. D. Pileher. 



"The Stability of the Growth-promoting Sub- 

 stance in Butter Fat," by Lafayette B. Mendel 

 and T. B. Osborne. 



"Studies on Lipoids," by W. H. Schultz. 

 (Read by title.) 



"Further Studies on Mustard Oil Inflamma- 

 tion, ' ' by S. Amberg, A. S. Loevenhart and W. B. 

 McClure (by invitation). 



"The Distribution of Trypan-red to the Tissues 

 and Vessels of the Eye as Influenced by Conges- 

 tion and Early Inflammation," by P. A. Lewis. 

 "Is the Pupil Dilatation from Adrenalin Pol- 

 lowing Gangliectomy Due to the Vasodilatation?" 

 by T. S. Githens and S. J. Meltzer. 



' ' The Absorption and Elimination of Different 

 Dyes," by Wm. Salant and E. O. Bengis (by in- 

 vitation). (Eead by title.) 



The second independent session was held on 

 Tuesday morning, December 28, and the following 

 papers were read and discussed: 



"The Inhibition of the Toxicity of Anesthetics 

 in the Nephropathic Kidney," by Wm. de B. Mac- 

 Nider. 



"Morphological Changes in the Tissues of the 

 Babbit as a Eesult of Eeduced Oxidations," by 

 G. H. Martin (by invitation), C. H. Bunting and 

 A. S. Loevenhart. 



"Relation of the Hemolytic Power to the Sur- 

 face Tension of Saponin Solutions," by E. Wood- 

 ward (by invitation), and C. L. Alsberg. (Eead 

 by title.) 



"Further Study of Nicotin Tolerance," by C. 

 W. Edmunds and M. I. Smith (by invitation). 



