630 CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF BACTERIAL GUM LEVAN. 



packed with a viscid gum. This substance is quite distinct from 

 gum levan, and has properties differing considerably. 



The above investigation was carried out in the laboratory of 

 the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Limited, S3^dney, and I 

 am enabled to make use of the results by kind permission of Mr. 

 E. W. Knox, general manager, and Mr. T. U. Walton, B.Sc, 

 F.I.C., tfec, principal chemist. 



