CONTENTS 



E. I. KlabunovskiI : Absolute asymmetric synthesis and asymmetric catalysis* 158 

 R. L. Berg: Some conditions for the appearance of life on the Earth* 169 



Discussion (Chairman I. Malek): 172 



E. I. El'piner and A. V. Sokol'skaya {read by E. I. El'piner),* 

 M.Vol'kenshtein,* A. G. PasynskiI,* E. I. KlabunovskiI and V.V. Patrikeev* 

 (read by V. V. Patrikeev),* M. A. Messineva,* L. Pauling,* J. D. Bernal,* 

 S. Akabori, C. Reid, D. Sapozhnikov,* S. L. Miller, S. Fox, 

 A. G. PasynskiI,* A. Ya. Smirnova,* A. A. Gurvich* 



Third Session (Chairman: In-Khun-Chen) 

 The Origin of Proteins, Nucleoproteins and Enzymes 



Reports 



S. Akabori: On the origin of the fore-protein 189 



O. Hoffmann-Ostenhof : Der Ursprung der Enzyme 197 



M. Calvin: Evolution of enzymes and the photosynthetic apparatus 207 



L. Pauling : The nature of the forces operating in the process of the duplication of 



molecules in living organisms 215 



Communications 



R. L. M. Synge: The occurrence of amino acids in Nature 224 



F. Sorm: Ähnlichkeit der Struktur bei Eiweißstoffen 231 

 K. Felix: Die Kontinuität des Eiweisses 241 

 S. W. Fox: A chemical theory of spontaneous generation 256 



(Chairman: K. Mothes) 

 L. A. NiKOLAEV: Complex compounds and models of enzymes* 263 



M. G. Kritsman and A. S. Konikova: Experimental demonstration of the occur- 

 rence of metaboUc processes in simple proteins {read by M. G. Kritsman)* 275 



F. Cedrangolo: The problem of the origin of the proteins 28 1 



Discussion : 289 



S. E. Bresler,* a. G. PasynskiI,* S. Oeriu, G. F. Cause,* E. M. Makovskiï,* 

 A. M. Goldovskiï* 



Fourth Session (Chairman: S. Akabori) 

 The Origin of Proteins, Nucleoproteins and Enzymes (continued) 



Reports 

 E. Chargaff: Nucleic acids as carriers of biological information 297 



H. L. Fraenkel-Conrat and B. Singer: The infective nucleic acid from tobacco 



mosaic virus (read by H. L. Fraenkel-Conrat) 303 



G. Schramm: Die Bedeutung der Virusforschung für die Erkenntnis biologischer 



Vermchrungsvorgänge 3^7 



W. M. Stanley: On the nature of viruses, genes and life 313 



Communications 

 A. N. BelozerskiI: On the species specificity of the nucleic acids in bacteria 322 



A. Wacker: Die Spczifizität der Desoxyribonukleinsäure 332 



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