Abstract
The present occasion marks both the 75th year of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine and its first national meeting. In 1903, Dr. Samuel Meltzer, a Russian-born and German-trained physiologist associated with the Rockefeller Institute, assembled a group of congenial colleagues from the New York medical schools and research institutions to found a local science club familiarly known as the Meltzer-Verein (-Union). It held monthly scientific meetings, sometimes at Luchow's restaurant or at the Liederkranz Club, and established a journal, The Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, which became its chief asset.
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