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Wilder; 8. "Practical Histology for large classes" Dr. Chas. S. 

 Minot, Boston, Mass. In the evening a subscription dinner was 

 given by the members of the affiliated societies at the Hotel Lafayette. 

 Saturday Morning, December 28th. — Miscellaneous business of minor 

 importance was transacted and these officers elected : Dr. Frank Baker, 

 of Washington, D. C, President; Dr. B. G. Wilder, of Ithaca, N. Y., 

 First Vice-President ; Dr. F. J. Shepherd, of Montreal, Canada, Second 

 Vice-President; Dr. D. S. Lamb, of Washington, D. C, Secretary and 

 Treasurer ; Delegate to Congress of American Physicians and Sur- 

 geons, Dr. Addinnell Hewson, Philadelphia; Alternate, Dr. D. K. 

 Shute, of Washington, D. C. Reading of Papers and Discussions — 

 9. " Some novel methods of description of the human skull " Dr. Har- 

 rison Allen, Philadelphia, Pa.; 10. "Type forms and nomenclature 

 of mammalian teeth." Illustrated by models and diagrams, Prof. 

 Henry F. Osborn, New York City; 11. "The work of the German 

 Anatomical Society in Nomenclature," Dr. Charles Heitmann, New 

 York City. Sunday Afternoon, 2.30 o'clock.— Miscellaneous business. 

 Reading of Papers and Discussions ; 12. "Fossa capitis femor is with 

 observations on the trochanteric fossa." Illustrated by specimens, Dr. 

 F. J. Brockway, New York City ; 13. " Note on the appearance of a 

 unilateral tuberosity in place of the trochanteric fossa." Illustrated 

 by specimen, Dr. D. S. Lamb, Washington, D. C. 



The American Physiological Society. — The eighth Annual 

 Meeting of the American Physiological Society was held in Philadel- 

 phia on December 27th and 28th, 1895. The meeting was preceded 

 by the usual smoke talk upon the evening of December 26th. Three of 

 the four formal sessions of the Society were held at the University of 

 Pennsylvania, the fourth at the Jefferson Medical College, The fol- 

 lowing communications were presented and discussed : 



R. H. Chittenden, The mucin of the white fibrous connective tissue ; 

 A. R. Cushny, The distribution of iron in the Invertebrates; J.J. 

 Abel, A preliminary account of the chemical properties of the pigment 

 of the negro's skin (with W. S. Davis) ; T. B. Aldrich, On the Chemi- 

 cal and physiological properties of the fluid secreted by the anal glands 

 ■ i Mephitis in* pliiiicii ; G. Lusk, Phloridzin diabetes and the maximum 

 of sugar from proteid ; W. T. Porter, Further researches on the coron- 

 ary arteries ; G. N. Stewart, Note on the quantity of blood in the lesser 

 circulation ; C. F. Hodge, Histological characters of lymph as distin- 

 guished from protoplasm ; C. F. Hodge (for J. R. Slouaker), Demon- 

 stration of the comparative anatomy of the fovea centralis; G. C. 

 Huber, The ending of the chorda tympani in the sublingual and the 



