3i8 Biochemical News, Notes and Comment ' [Jan. 



Clements" of the best milk and can be used for the same purposes, 

 was recently shown to a gathering of scientists in London. The 

 artificial milk is said to be more digestible than ordinary milk and 

 its Cream more nourishing. It can be used for all cooking purposes 

 and good cheese can be made from it, but it will not yield butter. 

 As it is germ-free it will keep longer than milk. The discovery is 

 the work of three Germans who spent three years in perfecting it. 

 The process of manufacture is simple and always produces the same 

 result. The "milk" is not touched by band or exposed to atmos- 

 pheric influence until it is poured into bottles for delivery. The 

 "milk " can be sold at 6 cents a quart, which is 2 cents cheaper than 

 the cost of London milk, and the cheese at 6 cents a pound {Journ. 

 Amer. Med. Assn., 1912, lix, p. 1637). 



BiocHEMisTRY IN ENGLAND. During the past year a move- 

 ment toward the Organization and closer social affiliation of those 

 biologists and chemists who are interested in the investigation of 

 Problems common to the two branches of science has resulted in the 

 formation of the Biochemical Club of England. . . . The move- 

 ment cannot fail to lead to meetings which will be stimulating and 

 füll of interest, if one may judge by the success which has attended 

 the similar Organization, the American Society of Biological Chem- 

 ists, since its Organization six years ago. Chemical points of view 

 are rapidly gaining a preeminent position in the biological and 

 medical sciences. The closer association and Cooperation of investi- 

 gators in medicine with scientists who are attacking allied problems 

 in other fields, such as agriculture, plant physiology and pathology, 

 microbiology in its industrial applications, etc., is certain to afford 

 advantages of mutual value. In the United States, compared with 

 Germany for example, there has always been less tendency for the 

 Student of chemistry in medicine to hold aloof from the biochemist 

 proper. Theconsideration of medical problems from a more strictly 

 biological point of view is a timely attitude, and the new English 

 Organization with its broad affiliations is a commendable one {Edi- 

 torial: Journ. Amer. Med. Assn., 1912, lix, p. 1803). 



Inventor of GELATIN CAPSULES. It has bccu incorrcctly as- 

 sumed that the apothecary Gross von Figely, of Vienna, in 1865, 

 introduced gelatin as a vehicle for medicines. The Londoti Journal 



