88 (258) Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. 



Fifteenth meeting. 

 [Third annual business meeting.] 



Physiological Laboratory of the New York University and 

 Bellevue Hospital Medical College. February 21 , ipo6. President 

 Wilson in the chair. 



Members present: Auer, Beebe, Brooks, Calkins, Emerson, 

 Field, Gies, Loeb (L.), 1 Lusk, Mandel (A. R.), Mandel (J. A.), 

 Meltzer, MacCallum (W. G.), 1 Murlin, Opie, Park, Richards, Salant, 

 Shaffer, Sherman, Torrey, Wallace, Wilson, Wolf. 



Members elected : Walter R. Brinckerhoff, Warren P. Lombard, 

 B. T. Terry, E. E. Tyzzer. 



Officers elected: President, Flexner : Vice-President, Dunham; 

 Librarian, Lusk ; Treasurer, Calkins ; Secretary, Gies. 



Recommendatio7is of the Council. — The following special report 

 of the Council was considered and its recommendations unani- 

 mously adopted : 



11 Special report of the Council. The result of the informal 

 vote on the propositions recently submitted by the Council to the 

 members leads us to offer the following recommendations : 



" 1. Hold five regular meetings during each academic year as 

 at present, with such additional special meetings as, in the opinion 

 of the Council, may be necessary. 



"2. Restrict the time allotted for the actual reading of papers, 

 exclusive of discussion, to a limit of one and one-half hour. Em- 

 power the Council to adjust the number of papers to this limit as 

 closely as possible ; authors to state beforehand the length of time 

 desired by them, but ten minutes to be, as a rule, the maximum 

 allowance. 



" 3. Authorize the Council to give precedence, on each pro- 

 gram, to communications which have not been presented before 

 any other body and which have to do with investigations essenti- 

 ally experimental in character. 



" 4. Require communications from absent members to be pre- 

 sented in brief abstract by a member selected by the author or 

 designated by the Council. 



1 Non-resident. 



