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Professor Hugo Kronecker (with portrait). S. J. Meltser 345 



The Viscosity of Bile. R. Burtotu-Opits 3Si 



Notes on the Toxicity of Dilute Solutions of Certain Phenolic Com- 

 pounds, AS Indicated by their Effect on Amphibian Eggs and Em- 

 bryos, together with References on Modifications of Pigment De- 

 velopment. Ross Alken Gärtner and Arthur M. Banta 357 



The Digestibility of Maize Consumed by Swine. 



S. C. Gucrnsey and John M. Eward. 369 

 Experience with the Abderhalden Serum Test for Pregnancy. 



Jacob Rosenhloom. Z73 

 A Note on the Use of Purified Antigen of Besredka in the Serum 



Diagnosis of Tuberculosis. /. Bronfenhrenner and J. Rockman 375 



The Diagnostic Value of the Landau Test for Syphilis. 



/. Bronfenhrenner and J. Rockman. Z77 

 Further Studies on Besredka Tuberculin. 



/. Bronfenhrenner and J. Rockman. 381 

 Studies on So-called Protective Ferments : 

 I. The sensitization of substratum for the Abderhalden test, 



/. Bronfenhrenner, W. T. Mitchell, Jr., and M. J. Schlesinger. 386 

 Effect of Salicylic Aldehyde on Plants in Soil and Solution Cultures. 



/. /. Skinner. 390 



On the Phosphorus Content of Starch. A. W. Thomas 403 



A Standard for the Determination of Ammonia by Means of Nessler 



Solution. Anton R. Rose and Kathcrine R. Coleman 407 



A Micro-urease Method for the Determination of Urea. 



Anton R. Rose and Katherine R. Coleman. 411 

 Fasting Studies: 



14. The elimination of urinary indican during two fasts of over one 



hundred days each. Carl P. Sherwin and Philip B. Hawk 416 



Studies in Water Drinking: 

 20. The relationship of water to certain life processes and more especially 



to nutrition. P. B. Hawk 420 



MuscuLAR' WofeK AND THE RESPIRATORY QuoTiENT. Scrgius MorguHs. . . . 435 



Bleached Flour. Frank L. Haley 440 



Meetings of the Biological Division of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety, CiNciNNATi, Ohio, April 8 and 9, 1914. 



Isaac King Phclps, Secretary. 4AA 



The Biochemical Society, England. R. H. A. Plimmer, Secretary 452 



Scientific Meetings of the Columbia University Biochemical Asso- 

 ciation. Alfred P. Lothrop, Secretary 454 



Doctorates in Biological Chemistry. P. H. D 472 



Biochemical Bibliography and Index. W. A. Perlzweig 475 



Biochemical News, Notes, and Comment 489 



Editorials 523 



Books Received 537 



Index : Volume III. (Includes names of authors, and impersonal and per- 

 sonal suhjects) 545 



Title Page for Vol. III, with Summary of Contents, List of Illustra- 

 tions, etc i-xvi 



