CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Review of the literature 153 



Experiments demonstrating the absorption of fats 156 



Method 156 



Selection of specimens 157 



Normal-feeding salmon 157 



Fat-fed salmon 158 



General relations of the organs of absorption 159 



Absorption of fats by the pyloric coeca 159 



Evidences from salmon feeding normally 160 



Histological appearance of fat in the epithelial cells 160 



Evidences in artifically fed salmon ' 162 



Fat in the tunica propria of fat-fed salmon 162 



Protocols: Number 45, 46, 88, and gi 163 



Fat-absorbing power of the salmon intestine 165 



Absorption of fat by the salmon stomach ; 166 



Absorption after fat feeding 167 



Absorption in the cardiac stomach 167 



Absorption in the pyloric stomach i6g 



Absorption fat in the tunica propria of the stomach 170 



Theoretical considerations. . . .• 171 



Summary 173 



Description of plates 173 



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