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FURTHER OBSERVAION ON THE EFFECTS OF 

 ALCOHOL 



L. B. Nice, 1916. 

 (Abstract) 



1. The white mice given alcohol by the inhalation method 

 gave much the same results as those that received it in their food in 

 my former experiments. 



2. The fecundity of the alcohol mice was greater than that of 

 the control mice, as in my former study. 



3. Six per cent of the j^oung of the male alcohol line, 6.8 

 per cent of the double alcohol line, 9.8 per cent of the female 

 alcohol line and 4 per cent of the second generation alcohol line 

 died from lowered vitality, while none of the control young died. 

 Similar results were obtained in my former experiments, except that 

 the alcohol line had a higher death rate — 11.1 per cent, in the 

 first generation and 12.5 per cent in the second generation. 



4. The growth of the young of all the alcohol lines exceeded 

 that of the controls, as in my former experiments. The young 

 of the second generation alcohol line outgrew all the others. 



There were no abortions, no still births, and no monstrosities 

 obtained in these experiments, nor in the former. 

 '''Pu]}lished in full in "The American Naturalist", LI, October, 1917. 



EFFECT OF PARA SUBSTITUENTS IN THE 

 ACYLATION OF AROMATIC AMINES 



L. Chas. Raiford and A. F. Whipple, 1916. 



Raiford and McBride*found that certain acid-forming sub- 

 *These proceedings 1915. 



stituents in the ortho position to amino group in an aromatic 

 amine accelerated the formation of a diacetyl derivative. The re- 

 port that follows contains the results of work done to answer the 

 following question : 



(a) What effect on the acylation of the amino group will 

 be produced by the presence of an acid-forming substituent in the 

 para position? 



In the study of this question, the four bases m.entioned in the 

 subjoined table were acylated in accordance with the method des- 



