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Preface ix 



Biographical Note xi 



I Tributes to Sir Joseph Barcroft 



1 Professor E. D. Adrian, O.M., F.R.S. 3 



Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge University 



2 Sir Henry Dale, O.M., F.R.S. 4 



3 Professor A. S. Krogh, For.Mem.R.S. 10 



Zoophysiological Laboratory, Copenhagen 



4 Professor C. G. Douglas, D.M., F.R.S. 12 



Physiological Laboratory, Oxford University 



5 Professor A. V. Hill, C.H., F.R.S. 16 



Biophysics Research Unit, University College, London 



6 Professor R. A. Peters, M.D., F.R.S. 20 



Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University 



7 G. S. Adair, F.R.S. 23 



Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge University 



8 Professor F. J. W. Roughton, F.R.S. 26 



Department of Colloid Science, Cambridge University 



II Reversible Reactions with Oxygen and Carbon 

 Monoxide 



1 Aspects of the Oxygenation and Oxidation Functions 35 



Professor David L. Drabkin, A.B., M.D., Professor and 

 Chairman of the Department of Physiological Chemistry, 

 The Graduate School of Medicine , University of Pennsylvania 



2 The Bond between Haem and Globin 53 



Professor Felix Haurowitz, M.D., Sc.D., Istanbul Uni- 

 versity, now Professor of Chemistry, Indiana University 



3 The Electronic Structure of Haemoglobin 57 



Professor Linus Pauling, For.Mem.R.S., Hon. Mem. R.I. , 

 Gates and Crellin Laboratory of Chemistry, California 

 Institute of Technology, Pasadena 



4 The Kinetics of Haemoglobin in Solution and in the Red 

 Blood Corpuscle 67 



Professor F. J. W. Roughton, F.R.S., Department of Colloid 

 Science, Cambridge University ; J. W. Legge, M.Sc, 

 Department of Biochemistry, University of Melbourne ; 

 and P. Nicolson, Ph.D., Cambridge University 



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