gren, The production of light by animals; Feb. 4: Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, Moisture in agricultural products. N. Y. Acad. of Sciences, Mar. 22: Prof. Raymond Dodge, Incidence of the effect of moderate doses of alcohol on the nervous system. N. Y. Bot. Garden, Oct. 10, '14: Dr. J. H. Barnhart, Carnivorous plants; Nov. 14: Dr. H. H. Rusby, Influence of radium on the production of field crops; April 3: Sources of quinin. Physical Soc., London, Oct. 23: Sir J. J. Thompson, Ionisation. Princeton Chem. Soc., Feb. 25: Prof. Chas. Baskerville, Physical chemistry and anesthesia. Rockefeller Inst. The Cosmopolitan Club held its eighth meeting Dec. 14, '14, at Columbia Univ. in the morning, at the Rockefeller Inst. in the afternoon. (See pp. 259, 268.) At the afternoon session addresses and demonstrations were made by Dr. D. D. Van Slyke and Mr. G. E. Cullen, Determination of urea; Dr. F. C. McLean, Effect of disease on elimination of urea and chlorids as measured by Ambard's coefficient; Dr. P. A. Levene, Vitamins; Dr. John Auer, Experimental intradural injections of therapeutic sera. Royal Institution, Jan. and Feb.: Prof. C. S. Sherrington, six lectures, The muscle in the service of the nerve. Univ. of Rochester, Nov. 9: Dr. P. F. Trowbridge, Some problems of nutrition. Washington Univ., Assoc. and Med. School; Dr. Graham LuskDec. 30: The cost of ready-to-serve food; Dec. 31: The basis of animal calorimetry; Jan. 2: Metabolism in diabetes. Prof. J. C. Bose, prof. of botany, Presidency Coll., Calcutta, India, has recently completed a world tour, through Europe and America, during which he delivered many lectures on the irritability of plants. Many of the lectures were given from biochem. standpoints. Prof. Bose's book on this general subject was referred to in the last issue of the BIOCHEM. BULL. (1914, iii, p. 540). Grants. Austrian Acad. of Sciences-Prof. v. Jauregg, $1,250: research on the etiology of goiter; Prof. Honigschmidt, $600: work on the atomic weight of the radium elements; Prof. Netolitsky, $375: study of the history of food stuffs. Paris Acad. of Sciences, Bonaparte Fund; grants (francs) for 1914.-Pierre Breteau, 2000; use of palladium in analysis and in organic chem.-M. Chatton, 2000; researches on the parasite Peridinians. Dr. Mauguin, 2,000; liquid crystals. - Dr. Chauvenet, 2000; zirconium and its complex compounds. Prof. Lauvageau, 2000; marine algae. Prize. Paris Acad. of Science, 400 francs: A. Lanzenberg, for his work on ammonia and urea-origin, methods of estimation. Medals. PERKIN MEDAL: To Dr. Edward Weston, For distinguished achievement in the field of chem. engineering and metallurgy.-WILLARD GIBBS MEDAL: To Dr. A. A. Noyes, For devising an improved system of qual. analysis. Journalistic. Amer. Jour. of Surgery. Dr. Yandell Henderson is a member of the staff which will publish, for the Amer. Journ. of Surg., a quarterly supplement devoted to anesthesia. It has been adopted as the official organ of the Amer. Assoc. of Anesthetists and the Scottish Soc. of Anesthetists. The first issue of this supplement appeared in October. Chemical Abstracts. Dr. A. M. Patterson resigned, last July, the editorship of Chem. Abstr. and was succeeded by J. J. Miller, one of the two assoc. ed. Since Jan., E. J. Crane, assoc. ed., has been the acting editor, aided by Elmer Hockett, assis. ed. Of the total of 2,967 pages and 16,468 abstracts comprising Chem. Abstr., for 1914, 706 pages and 4,692 abstracts were devoted to biol. chemistry. Proc. Nat'l Acad. Sciences. The Nat'l Acad. of Sciences began, in Jan., the publication of monthly proceedings. (See page 275). The first paper in it of biochem. interest was published, in the Feb. issue, by Drs. F. G. Benedict and Paul Roth, on The basal caloric output of vegetarians as compared with that of non-vegetarians of like weight and height. Biochemistry is represented in the editorial board by Prof. J. J. Abel. Funds and endowments. Drs. W. J. and C. H. Mayo, Rochester, Minn., established a $1,000,000 foundation for med. research and presented the foundation, under certain restrictions, to the Board of Regents of the Univ. of Minn. Interest from the fund will be used for research at Rochester. The Univ. of Oxford has received $2,200 from friends of the late Prof. Gotch to perpetuate his memory and to encourage study of physiology. The income from the fund will be applied to the establishment of a Gotch memorial prize to be awarded annually, after examination, to a student in the physiol. lab.; and to the creation and maintenance of a Gotch memorial library in the same lab. Louis Moissan, son of the late Prof. Henri Moissan and assistant at the Ecole supérieure de Pharmacie, Paris (who died on the field of battle, August 10), has left to his school, in addition to the scientific books and apparatus of his father, 200,000 francs for the foundation of two prizes, one for chemistry (prix Moissan), and one for pharmacy (prix Lugan), in memory respectively of his father and mother, neé Lugan. Through the generosity of Mr. R. B. Mellon an endowed lectureship has been presented to the Soc. for Biol. Research, Univ. of Pittsburgh, for an annual lecture on subjects of medical research. The lectures will be published in the form of monographs for distribution to libraries and investigators. The first lecture was given by Prof. John J. Abel (see p. 247). New laboratories. The Henry S. Dennison memorial building for med. research, Univ. of Col., has been opened. The new radium lab. of Manchester Infirmary has been formally opened by the Mayor of the city. The new building of the Mellon Inst. of Indust. Research, Univ. of Pittsburgh, was dedicated on Feb. 26. The Thomas W. Evans Museum and Dental Inst., Sch. of Dentistry, Univ. of Penn., was dedicated, Feb. 22-23. The Chem. Section of the Iowa Agric. Exp. Sta'n has moved into the new $250,000 Chem. Building of the Iowa State Coll., and occupies the entire southeast wing of the third floor. Mr. A. Fleck, demonstr. at the Univ. of Glasgow, has been appointed physical chemist to the Glasgow Radium Commit., estabished to administer a large fund collected in that city for the purpose of acquiring and distributing radium for therapeutic purposes. A radiometric lab., under the auspices of the commit., has been fitted up at the univ. Associations, societies, etc.: Officers-elect. ACAD. OF NATURAL SCI. Pres., S. G. Dixon; vice-p., E. G. Conklin, John Cadwalader; record. sec. and librarian, E. J. Nolan; cor. sec., J. P. Moore; treas., George Vaux, Jr. AMER. ASSOC. ADV. SCIENCE. Pres., W. W. Campbell; perm. sec., L. O. Howard. Sect. A (Math.-Astron.), vice-p., А. О. Leuschner. Sect. B (Physics), vice-p., F. Slate. -Sect. C (Chem.), vice-p., Wm. McPherson; member of council, W. T. Taggart; member of gen'l commit., L. W. Jones; member of sect. commit., E. C. Franklin. Sect. D (Mech. Sci. Eng.), vice-p., B. J. Arnold.Sect. E (Geol.-Geogr.), vice-p., C. S. Prosser. Sect. F. (Zool.), vice-p., V. L. Kellog. Sect. G. (Bot.), vice-p., W. A. Setchell; member of council, S. R. Jones; member of gen'l commit., W. L. Bray; member of sect. commit. for 5 yr., C. S. Gager. Sect. H (Anthrop.-Psychol.), vice-p., G. M. Stratton.-Sect. I (Soc.Econ. Sci.), vice-p., G. F. Kunz. Sect. K (Physiol. - Exp. Med.), vice-p., F. P. Gay; sec., C.-E. A. Winslow. -Sect. L (Educ.), vice-p., E. P. Cubberley.-Sect. M (Agric.), vice-p., E. Davenport; member of the gen'l commit., A. C. True; member of council, W. A. Taylor; member of sect. commit., K. S. Butterfield. AMER. ASSOC. OF UNIV. PROF. Pres., John Dewey. AMER. CHEM. Soc. Pres., C. H. Herty; directors (1915-1918), Alexander Smith, E. G. Love; councilors-at-large, E. C. Franklin, F. K. Cameron, G. B. Frankforter, G. A. Hulett. AMER. HOME ECON. Assoc. Pres., Martha Van Rensselaer; vice-p., Abby L. Marlatt, Marion Talbot, B. R. Andrews; sec., Anna Barrows; treas., C. F. Langworthy; members of the council, Sarah L. Arnold, Isabel E. Lord, Josephine T. Berry, Catherine A. Mulligan, Helen L. Johnson. AMER. PHYSIOL. SOC. See page 182. AMER. SOC. OF BIOL. CHEM. See page 184. AMER. SOC. OF NATURALISTS. Pres., F. R. Lillie; vice-p., R.A. Emerson; sec., Bradley M. Davis (1914-16); treas., J. Arthur Harris (1915-17); addit. members of the ex. commit., R. G. Harrison (1914-15), Raymond Pearl (1914-16), H. V. Wilson (1915-17). AMER. SOC. FOR PHARM. AND EXP. THERAPEUTICS. See page 186. AMER. SOC. OF ZOOLOGISTS. Pres., W. O. Locy; vice-p., Wm. E. Ritter; member at large of ex. commit., D. H. Tennent. ASSOC. AMER. AGRIC. COLLEGES AND EXP. STA. Pres., E. A. Bryan; vice-p., J. H. Worst, T. F. Hunt, C. D. Woods, P. H. Rolfs, C. A. Lovy; sec.-treas., J. S. Hills; bibliogr., A. C. True; exec. commit., W. O. Thompson, H. J. Waters, Brown Ayres, W. H. Jordan, H. L. Russell. BIOL. SOC. OF WASH. Pres., Paul Bartsch; vice-p., A. D. Hopkins, W. P. Hay, J. N. Rose, Mary J. Rathbun; rec. sec., М. М. Lyon, Jr.; cor. sec., W. S. McAtee; treas., W. W. Cooke; members of council, Hugh M. Smith, Vernon Bailey, Wm. Palmer, N. Hollister, J. W. Gidley. BOTAN. SOC. OF AMER. Pres., J. M. Coulter; vice-p., R. A. Harper; sec., H. H. Bartlett; treas., Arthur Hollick; councilor, W. F. Ganong. FEDERATION OF AMER. SOCIETIES FOR EXP. BIOL. See page 179. MASS. PUBLIC HEALTH Assoc. Pres., W. T. Sedgwick. SOC. OF AMER. BACTERIOLOGISTS. Pres., D. H. Bergey; vice-p., John Weinzirl; sec.-treas., A. P. Hitchens; council, K. F. Kellerman, W. A. Stocking, Jr., R. E. Buchanan, H. J. Conn; deleg. to Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., M. J. Rosenau. Miscellaneous items. FELLOWSHIPS. Wesley Memorial Hosp., Chicago, has established five fellowships to be given yearly to graduates in med. who aim to solve important problems applying to clinical med. and surg., or the specialties. The work will be done under a joint board selected from the staff of Wesley Hosp. and of the lab. dep's of the Northwest. Univ. Med. Sch.; the clinical work to be done in the hosp., and the lab. work in the lab. of the Med. Sch. The fellowships are open to any graduate in med. The recipient of the fellowship will be required to devote his entire time during the first year, at least, to investigation. LUBRICANT FOR STOPCOCKS, ETC. An excellent lubricant for use with burette stopcocks, desiccators, etc., can be made by melting together equal parts of paraffin and vaselin. The paraffin gives body to the mixture, which is therefore superior to vaselin alone, especially in places where high temperatures prevail. PROTEST AGAINST TAX ON DENTIFRICES. A commit. of N. Y. physicians and dentists has been formed to petition Congress to revoke the war tax on dentifrices, on the ground that such a tax is a severe blow to the work in progress, under the auspices of state and municipal public health agencies, in behalf of oral hygiene. The commit., of which Dr. H. L. Wheeler of the Coll. of Dental and |