PREFACE. 



At the meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology and 

 Medicine, on April 19, the editor was instructed to present, in this 

 volume, a brief biography of the founder and first president of the 

 society. It is expected that the biography of Dr. Meltzer [page 5 

 (69)] will be followed, in succeeding volumes, by similar sketches 

 of the lives of the future presidents of the society. 



The constitution, as given on page 1 1 (75), includes the amend- 

 ments that have been passed [page 99 (163)] since the publica- 

 tion of volume I. 



The numerals in parenthesis before the titles of the abstracts 

 [page 19 (83)] indicate numerical positions in the entire series of 

 communications presented before the society since its organization. 

 These numerals are given on the assumption that some of the mem- 

 bers desire to have bound together several (perhaps the first three) 

 of these volumes. In such cases the numerical arrangement re- 

 ferred to, and that adopted for the index, will facilitate reference 

 to the abstracts. The same is true of the page numerals in paren- 

 thesis. 



The numerals in the index at the end of the volume correspond 

 with those in parenthesis before the titles of the abstracts. None 

 of them duplicate any of the numerals in the index of volume I. 



Augtist 1, ipoj. 



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