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Amer. Book Co., 1914. " This book shows boys and girls living in an urban 

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 ehem. of foods, and the ehem. physiol. of plants and animals, receive special 

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A study of foods. By Ruth A. Wardall, head of Dep't of Home Econ., 

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Merck's chemical reagents, their purity and tests. 2d ed. (Authorized 

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 Merck.) By Henry Schenck. Pp. 199— 4x6 ^ ; Merck and Co., N. Y., 1914. 

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 Solutions for reagent purposes, compiled from published data. 



Chemical and biological survey of the waters o£ Illinois. By Edward 

 Bartow, Univ. of 111. Bull., Vol. X, No. 36, 1912. Water survey series, No. 10; 

 Pp. igS.—Idem., Vol. XI, No. 38, 1914. Water survey series, No. 11; Pp. 478. 



Pellagra II. Second progress-report of the Thompson-McFadden Pel- 

 lagra Commis. of the N. Y. Post-Grad. Med. Seh. and Hosp. By J. F. Siler, 

 captain, Med. Corps, U. S. Army, P. E. Garrison, passed assist. surgeon, U. S. 

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 with the collab. of H. Douglas Singer, Paul A. Schule, O. S. Hillman and others. 



Researches in biochem., conducted in the Johnston Lab,, Univ. of Liver- 

 pool. Ed. by Benj. Moore, Johnston prof. of biochem., Univ. of Liverpool. 

 Vol. III; 1912-14. (20 reprints.) 



CoUected papers: Inst, of Physiol., Univ. College, London. Ed. by E. H. 



Starling, Jodrell prof. of physiol. Vol. XVIII, 1913-14. (25 reprints.) 



Studies frora the Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Inst. Vol. II ; 1914- (30 

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Studies from the Rockefeller Inst, for Med. Research. Vol. XX; 1915. 

 Pp. 591. (55 reprints.) 



Studies from the Dep't of Physiol., Cornell Univ. Med. Coli., Vol. III; 

 1914. (21 reprints.) 



Studies from the Dep'ts of Pathol., Bacteriol., Exp. Pathol. and Exp. 

 Therapeutics, Cornell Univ. Med. Coli, Vol. XIII ; 1913- (21 reprints.) 



Collected papers, 1913-1914: Lab. of Physiol. Chem., Sheffield Scientific 

 School, Yale Univ. By R. H. Chittenden, prof. of physiol. ehem., L. B. Mendel, 

 prof. of physiol. ehem., and F. P. Underhill, prof. of patholog. chem. (42 

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