6 (jo) Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. 



Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University — and in his 

 private laboratory at his residence, where the main part of his 

 work was done. During the past year, since his association with 

 the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, he has conducted 

 experimental work in the laboratory of that institution. 



In the quarter of a century of his activities and residence in 

 New York many honors have come to him. He is a Fellow of 

 the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the 

 Academy of Sciences of New York, and the New York Academy 

 of Medicine ; member of the Association of American Physicians, 

 the American Physiological Society, the Association of American 

 Pathologists and Bacteriologists, and of other scientific and medi- 

 cal societies. For the last two years he was President of the 

 American Gastro-Enterological Association, and he is now a 

 member of the Council of the American Physiological Society, the 

 Harvey Society and the Society for Experimental Biology and 

 Medicine. He is consulting physician to the Harlem Hospital. 

 At the International Congress of Arts and Sciences at St. Louis, 

 in 1904, Dr. Meltzer was chairman of the section of Physiology. 

 He was also chosen to inaugurate the " Harrington Lectureship" 

 at the University of Buffalo (1904). 



There follows a. list of the more important papers contributed 

 by Dr. Meltzer to medical and experimental biological science : 



1881. — Ueber den Schluckmechanismus und dessen nervose 

 Hemmungen (with Hugo Kronecker). Monatsbcr. der konigl. 

 Akad. der Wissensch. zu Berlin, Jan. — On the propagation of 

 inhibitory excitation in the medulla oblongata (with Hugo Kro- 

 necker). Proc. of the Royal Society, No. 216. 



1882. — Geschlecht und Lungenvagus. Ccntralbl. f. d. vied. 

 Wissensch. 



1883. — Die Irradiationen des Schluckcentrums und ihre 

 allgemeine Bedeutung. Arch. f. Anat. u. Physiol., Physiol. Abtk. 

 — Der Schluckmechanismus, seine Erregung und seine Hem- 

 mung (with Hugo Kronecker). Arch. f. Anat. u. Physiol., Physiol. 

 Abth. } Siippl. Fcstgabe. — Schluckgerausche in Scrobiculus cordis 

 und ihre physiologische Bedeutung. Ccntralbl. f. d. mcd. Wissensch. 



1884. — Zu den Schluckgcn'iuschcn. BerL klin. Woch. — 



