CONTENTS. 



Graham Lusk : The influence of epinephrin on carbohydrate metabolism. 28 (845)- 

 Harlow Brooks : An experimental study of heredity in bovine tuberculosis. 29 

 (846). 



F. H. Pike: The function of the otic labyrinth in turtles. 30 (847). 



Carl J. Wiggers : The respiratory and cardiac variations of intrathoracic pressure and 

 their significance in cardiac contraction. 31 (848). 



John W. Churchman : The effect of gentian violet on enzymes, toxines and ultra-mi- 

 croscopic infections. 32 (849). 



Donald D. Van Slyke and G. E. Cullen : Preparation of soy bean urease in solid 

 form and its use in urea determination. 33 (850). 



R. C. Lewis and Stanley R. Benedict : A method for the estimation of sugar in 

 small quantities of blood. 34 (851). 



A. C. Crehork and Horatio B. Williams : Electric currents in conductors with dis- 

 tributed capacity considered in relation to the propagation of the nerve impulse. 

 35 (852). 



T. F. Zucker (by invitation) : Blood platelets and blood clotting. 36 (853). 



N; R. Blather wick and P. B. Hawk : The output of fecal bacteria as influenced by 

 fasting and by high and low protein ingestion. 37 (854). 



L. L. Woodkuff : Further light on the conjugation of Paramecium. 38 (855). 



A. E. Livingston (by invitation) : Effect of castration on the weight of the pituitary 

 in rabbits. 39 (856). 



A. E. Livingston (by invitation) : Effect of thyroidectomy, followed by thyroid feed- 

 ing, on weight of the pituitary in rabbits. 40 (857). 



E. G. Boring (by invitation) : Method in the investigation of sensibility after the sec- 

 tion of a cutaneous nerve. ( Preliminary communication.) 41 (858). 



A. J. Carlson and F. M. Drennan : The alleged discharge of the internal secretion 

 of the pancreas into the lymph. 42 (859). 



Members present at the fifty-sixth meeting : 



Atkinson, Auer, Benedict, S. P., Brooks, Burton-Opitz, Eggleston, Eisenbrey> 

 Emerson, Ewing, J., Field, Githens, Hartwell, Harris, Jackson, Kleiner, Lambert, 

 Lee, Levin, Longcope, Meltzer, Meyer, G., Murlin, Myers, McClendon, Xorris, 

 Oppenheimer, Pike, Scott, E. G., Terry, Van Slyke, Wadsworth, West, Wiggers, 

 Winslow. 



Dates of the next two regular meetings : 



February 18, 1914 — April 15, 1914. 



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