A NOTE ON WHELDALE AND BASSETT'S PAPER 

 "ON A SUPPOSED SYNTHESIS OF ANTHO- 

 CYANIN'." 



By ARTHUR ERNEST EVEREST, M.Sc, Ph.D. 



Before the above-mentioned paper of Whelclale and Bassett came 

 to hand, the author had forwarded for publication elsewhere, a paper, 

 the contents of which very largely answer the criticism directed by 

 Wheldale and Bassett against his earlier paper (Roy. Soc. Proc. 1914, B, 

 vol. 87, p. 444). There are however a few points to which, in view of 

 Wheldale and Bassett's publication, the author feels it necessary to 

 draw attention. 



It must be pointed out that as the result of the recent publication 

 of Willstatter and his collaborators (Sitzber. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 

 1914, XII, 402) wherein the chemical examination of anthocyan pigments 

 (obtained pure and crystalline in every case, both as glucoside and non- 

 glucoside) from no fewer than ten flowers or fi'uits was briefly described, 

 and in which it was conclusively proved that these pigments were not 



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 C-H 



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1 Journal of Genetics, 1914, Vol. iv. No. 1, p. 103. 



