CONTENTS 



C. J. Wiggers: The influence of the diaphragm descent on the movements of the 

 heart. 6s (882). 



Alfred E. Cohn: Experiments dealing with the relation of the sinus node to the 



effects of stimulation of the vagus nerves. 66 (883). 

 H. C. Bailey and J. R. Murlin: The energy requirement of the new-born. 67 (884). 

 M. S. Fine and A. F. Chace: The influence of phenylquinolin carbonic acid (atophan) 



and of radium emanations upon the uric acid concentration of the blood. 



68 (88s). 



G. L. Kite (by invitation): Some structural transformations of the blood cells of 



vertebrates. 69 (886). 

 George B. Wallace: Colloidal nitrogen in diabetes. 70 (887). 

 George B. Wallace and Mills Sturtevant: A depressor substance in fecal 



extracts. 71 (888). 



B. R. Hoobler and J. R. Murlin: The energy metabolism of normal and marasmic 

 children. 72 (889). 



David Marine (by invitation): Parathyroid hypertrophy and hyperplasia in fowls. 

 73 (890). 



Oscar Klotz and May E. Bothwell. Liver necroses associated with streptococcus 

 infection. 74 (891)- 



John W. Churchman and D. G. Russell: The effect of gentian violet on protozoa 

 and on growing adult tissue. 75 (892). 



P. A. Levene and F. B. La Forge: On the hexosamine of chrondroitin sulphuric 

 acid. 76 (893). 



A. C. Crawford and Zeno Ostenberg: The pressor substances of the pituitary 

 gland. 77 (894)- 



E. Barbara Will and A. C. Crawford: Note on the action of epinephrin on the 

 guinea pig uterus. 78 (895). 



Members present at the fifty-eighth meeting : 



Beutner, Du Bois, Ewing, E. M., Fine, Gies, Howe, Jackson, Lambert, Mandel, 

 J. A., Meltzer, Murlin, Myers, Senior, Van Slyke, Wallace, Wiggers. 



Members present at the fifth meeting, Pacific Coast Branch: 



Crawford, Cooke, Meyer, K. F. 



Members elected at the fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth meetings : 



H. C. Bailey, Reinhard Beutner, W. H. Brown, C. G. Bull, H. M. Evans, 

 Henry Laurens, W. P. Lucas, K. F. Meyer, George Pierce, J. F. Siler, R. E. Swain. 



Dates of the next two regular meetings : 



May 20, 1914 — October 21, 1914. 



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