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pr(x:ess. The concentration of the enzyme was obviously sufficient, 

 however, to effect marked digestion of some of the material before' 

 the fibrin absorbed the maximum proportions of water. 



TABLE 2. 



TABLE 3. 



4. Conditions of the fourth experiment: Same as those of 

 Nos. I, 2 and 3, except that the concentration of the pepsin product 

 in the enzyme Solution was 0.0125 per cent. (0.1 gram in 800 c.c). 

 See Table 4. 



The concentration of the enzyme, in some of the mixtures in the 

 fourth experiment, favored an exhibition of increased swelling by 

 the fibrin before fully compensatory digestion could occur. The 

 enzymic conditions of the fifth exi>eriment, and those of the first, 

 were more favorable for this occurrence than those of the remain- 

 ing experiments in this series (I). 



* Slight digestion. 

 ^* Marked digestion. 

 " Slight digestion. 

 " Marked digestion. 



