SUMMARY OF CONTENTS: VOL. II, Nos. 5-8. 

 No. 5. September, 19 12. 



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Ernst ScHxn-ZE. Biography and Bibliography (with portrait). 



Ernst Winterstein. i 



A ReSUME OF THE LiTERATURE ON InOSITE-PhoSPHORIC AciD ("PhYTIN"), 



WITH Special Reference to the Relation of that Substance to 



Plants. Anton Richard Rose 21 



A New Type of Artificial Cell Suitable for Permeability and Other 



BioCHEMicAL Studies. E. Ncwtou Hürvey 50 



On a New Function of the Catalyzer Called Peroxidase and on the 



Biochemical Transformation of Orcin into Orcein. Jules Wolff . ... 53 

 Studies of Diffusion through Rubber Membranes : 



1. Preliminary Observations on the Diffusibility of Lipins and Lipin- 



soluble Substances. William J. des SS 



2. Dififusibility of Lipins from Ether through Rubber Membranes into 



Ether. Jacob Rosenbloom 64 



3. Diffusibility of Protein through Rubber Membranes, with a Note on 



the Disintegration of Collodion Membranes by Common Ethyl 

 Ether and Other Solvents. William H. Welker 70 



4. The Comparative DiffusibiHty of Various Pigments in Different Sol- 



vents. George D. Beal and George A. Geiger 78 



The Colloidal Nitrogen in the Urine from a Dog with a Tumor of the 



Breast. Max Kahn and Jacob Rosenbloom 87 



General Aspects of Fasting. Paul E. Hozue 90 



The Physico-chemical Basis for the Contraction of Striated Muscle: 



2. Surface Tension. William N. Berg loi 



A Study of Some Protein Compounds. Walter H. Eddy iii 



Effects of Intraperitoneal Injections of Epinephrin on the Partition 



OF Nitrogen in Urine from a Dog. 



Jacob Rosenbloom and William Weinberger. 123 



The Biochemical Society, England. W. D. Halliburton 128 



Proceedings of the Section (II) ON DiETETic Hygiene and Hygienic 



Physiology OF the 15TH International Congress on Hygiene and 



Demography, with Abstracts of Some of the Papers. 



Lafayette B. Mendel, Secretary. 129 

 Program of the Proceedings of the Section on Biochemistry Including 



Pharm acology (viii, d), of the 8th International Congress of 



Applied Chemistry. John A. Mandel, Secretary 150 



Proceedings of the Sixth Scientific Meeting of the Columbia Univer- 



siTY Biochemical Association. Alfred P. Lothrop, Secretary 156 



Biochemical News, Notes and Comment: 



General 188 



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