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Resolution adopted: Resolved, that groups of members be 

 allowed by special vote of the society to form local branches of the 

 society: that such local branches be designated by local names, 

 e. g., "The San Francisco Branch of the Society for Experimental 

 Biology and Medicine;" and have power to hold meetings inde- 

 pendently of the meetings of the society as a whole; that the 

 expenses of such local meetings be borne by the local branches; 

 that the members of such local branches have power to arrange 

 their own programs and to publish their scientific papers in the 

 proceedings of the society; and that only members of the society 

 as a whole and who shall have been duly proposed to the council 

 and elected in the manner provided for by the constitution be 

 members of the local branches. 



Forty eighth meeting. 



Cornell University Medical College, April 17, IQI2. President 

 Ewing in the chair. 



Members present: Auer, Bancroft, Benedict, Butterfield, Cohn, 

 Ewing, Field, Fitzpatrick, Foster, Githens, Guenther, Hatcher, 

 Kleiner, Lee, Levine, Longscope, Lusk, Manwaring, McCrudden, 

 Meltzer, Mendel, Morgan, Murlin, Norris, Pappenheimer, Robin- 

 son, Steinhardt, Stewart, Stockard, Swift, Terry, Van Slyke, 

 Wallace, Wiggers, H. B. Williams. 



Members elected: J. H. Austin, H. E. Jordan, C. C. Lieb, F. W. 

 Schlutz. 



Resignation accepted: V. C. Vaughan. 



Resolution adopted: Resolved, that abstracts of communica- 

 tions to be published in the Proceedings of the meeting at which 

 they are presented must be delivered to the secretary not later 

 than two days after the meeting; Otherwise they shall be published 

 in the Proceedings of a subsequent meeting. 



Forty ninth meeting. 



University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, May 15, 

 IQI2. President Ewing in the chair. 



Members present: Auer, Bancroft, Banzhaf , Benedict, Birchard, 



