CONTENTS 



PAGB 



Dinner to Henry Hurd Rusby. The Alumni Association of the College 

 OF Pharmacy of the City of New York Honors Dean Rusby. 



JVilliam Mansfield. 149 



View-points in the Study of Growth. Lafayette B. Mendel 156 



The Physico-chemical Basis of Striated-muscle Contraction : 



3. The maximum surface tension in striated muscle. IVilliam N. Berg. 177 



4. Sources of surface tension in striated muscle. V^iUiam N. Berg 187 



Researches on the Physico-chemical Properties of Veget.\ble Saps : 



2. Note on a comparison of the physico-chemical constants of the juice 

 of apples and pears of varying size and fertility. 



/. Arthur Harris and Ross Aiken Gortner. 196 



Studies of Plant Growth in Heated Soil. ^«31 West Wilson 202 



A Review of Methods for the Isolation and Identification of the Organic 



Constituents of Soils. A. W. Thomas 210 



A Review of Regent Investigations on the Mineral Nutrition of Fungi. 



Arthur W. Dox. 222 

 A Review of Willstätter's Researches on Chlorophyll. Clarence J. West. 229 

 Tables of the Relative Depression of the Freezing Point, 1860/-^, to 

 Facilitate the Calculation of Molecular Weights. 



/. Arthur Harris and Ross Aiken Gortner. 259 

 The Influence of Underfeeding and of Subsequent Abundant Feeding 



on the Basal Met.\bolism of the Dog. Sergius MorguUs 264 



The Ninhydrin Reaction. Paul E. Hozve 269 



A Rapid Clinical Test for Hyperglycemia. .9. Gitlow and B. Horowitz. . . 272 

 The Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations in the U. S. (Con- 



tinued from the October Issue). A. C 275 



Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Federation of Ameri- 

 can Societies for Experimental Biology, in Philadelphia, December 



28-31, 1913. Paul E. Hoiue 276 



Proceedings of Societies Meeting in Conjunction with the Federation 

 OF American Societies for Experimental Biology ; and of the Society 



OF American Bacteriologists. Paul E. Howe 294 



The Biochemical Society, England. R. H. A. Plimmer, Sccretary 301 



Scientific Proceedings of the Columbia University Biochemical Asso- 

 ciation. Alfred P. Lothrop, Secretary 302 



Biochemical Bibliography and Index. William A. Perhweig 3^5 



Biochemical News, Notes and Comment 323 



Editorials 337 



Books Received Insert 



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