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RESULTS OF ANALYSES OF VARIOUS BONES. [BOOK I. 



entertained by many histologists that the red marrow is an organ 

 concerned in the transformation of the coloured cells of the blood. 



In the marrow of the bones of rabbits, Rustitzky 1 found mucin ; 

 he was unable to discover this substance in the fat marrow of 

 ox bones. 



RESULTS OF COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF BONES BELONGING TO 

 DIFFERENT MEMBERS OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. (FREMY. 2 ) 



1 Rustitzky, Centralblatt f. d. med. Wissenschaft. 1872, p. 562. 



2 E. Fr&my, "Recherches chimiques sur les os." Anhales de Chimie et de Physique, 

 ser. 3, Vol. XLIII. pp. 47107. 



