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effect whatever on common proteids, he has 

 made a study of the formation of albumin in 

 plant cells, and finds there is a labile or active 

 albumin in living matter chemically unlike 

 the ordinary albumin stored in seeds and 

 eggs. This exists as a reserve material in 

 plants and undergoes chemical change by 

 the same influences causing death to proto- 

 plasm. By many experiments it is shown 

 that the chemical activity of cells is akin to 

 the phenomena of catalysis. The conclu- 

 sion is reached that there is an oscillation 



of atoms, or peculiar mode of motion, exist- 

 ing in labile proteids which is the source of 

 vital activity ; this being in its turn " but one 

 of the vicissitudes of solar energy." (Keegau 

 Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London.) 



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