CONTENTS 



Pagb 

 Francis Humphreys Storer. Lewis W. Fetcer i 



On THE BEHAVIOR OF KERATIN SULFUR AND CYSTIN SüLFUR, IN THE OXIDATION 



OF THESE SUBSTANCES BY POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE. 'I. Tit. Lissisttl .. l8 



Serum diagnosis of Rous's chicken sarcoma, based on chemical methods. 



Casimir Funk. 24 



CoNVENIENT methods FOR DEMONSTRATING THE biochemical ACTIVITY OF 

 MICROÖRGANISMS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE PRODUCTION AND 



ACTIVITY OF enzymes. C. H. CrabUl and H. S. Reed 30 



ReACTION of RABBITS TO INTRAVENOUS INJECTIONS OF MOULD SPORES. 



A. F. Blakeslee and Ross Aiken Gortner. 45 



StUDIES ON THE PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF VEGETABLE SAPS : 



3. A comparison of the physico-chemical constants of the Juices expressed 

 from the wall with those from the included carpellary whorl in pro- 

 liferous fruits of Passiflora gracilis. J. Arthur Harris and Ross 

 Aiken Gortner, with the collaboration of John V. Lawrence 52 



CoMPARISONS OF URINARY AND SERUM FINDINGS IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF TUBER- 

 CULOSIS. /. Bronfenbrenner, J. Rockman and W. J. Mitchell, Jr 80 



The röle of serum anti-trypsin in the Abderhalden test. 



/. Bronfenbrenner, W. J. Mitchell, Jr., and Paul Titus. 86 

 On the nature of the Abderhalden reaction. /. Bronfenbrenner 87 



A NOTE ON THE ABSENCE OF MORPHINE FROM THE LIVER IN A CASE OF CHRONIC 



laudanum addiction. Jacob Rosenbloom 90 



StUDIES of SOME COMPOUNDS OF CINCH0NA ALKALOIDS, CERTAIN METALS AND 



pHOSPHORic ACiD. Edwin D. Watkins 94 



On the ACCELERATION of THE OXIDATION of aluminium BY MEANS OF MER- 



CURY. /. F. McClendon 96 



The detoxicating effect of the liver of Cathartes aura upon Solutions of 



/3-imidazolylethylamin. Allan C. Etistis ^ 97 



The organic-phosphorus Compounds of wheat-bran. 



Charles J. Robinson and J. Howard Mueller. 100 

 The neutral-sulfur and colloidal-nitrogen tests in the diagnosis of 



CANCER. Frederic G. Goodridge and Ma.v Kahn 118 



Active immunization to hay fever. 



Mark J. Gottlicb and Seymonr Oppenheimer. 127 

 The influence of low temperatures upon enzymes. A review. 



Joseph Samuel Hepburn. 136 

 Plant Pigments. The chemistry of plant pigments other than Chloro- 

 phyll. Clarence J. West ._ 15 ' 



Plant PIGMENTS. Their color and interrelationships. B. Horowits 161 



Further comment on muscular vvork and respir.-vtory Quotient. 



Sergius Morgulis. I73 



The Biochemical Society, England. R. H. A. Plimmer, Secretary 174 



Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. War 

 RESOLUTION Philip A. Shaffer, Secretary. 176 



PrOCEEDINGS of the SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE FeDERATION OF AMERI- 

 CAN Societies for Experimental Biology, in St. Louis, Dec. 28-30, 1914. 



Paul E. Howe. 177 

 Papers of biochemical interest, presented before the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, and Affiliated Societies, 



Phila., Dec. 28, 1914 — Jan. i, 1915. Joseph S. Hepburn 189 



Scientific Meetings of the Columbia University Biochemical Associa- 

 tion, AT THE College of Physicians and Surgeons. New York. 



Edgar G. Miller, Jr., Secretary. 193 

 Biochemical bibliography and index. 



William A. Perlaweig and William J. Gies. 229 

 Biochemical news, notes and comment. 



Benjamin Horowits and collaborators. 242 



Editorials, including BOOK REVIEWS. William J. Gies 270 



Register of members of the Columbia Univ. Biochemical Association. 



Edgar G. Miller, Jr., Secretary. i-v 



