268 G. F. Barker—Physiological Chemistry. 
function, but is simply due to the peculiar constitution of th 
tissue itself. From these facts it is clear that to the proteie 
1857 as animal starch, for the following reasons : (1) when the 
liver continues to produce the glycogenic matter, but the fe- 
(3) with batrachians normally, and with mammals and birds, 
whose liver is saccharine at death, the globules are very nume- 
pe ‘ ‘ xe 
: oe pees BG ai periods with different species» 
—— esculenta it is very late, the liver not becoming 88 
= arine in Switzerland till the end of May ; adults pass through 
it sooner than young animals, females earlier than males: (8) 
* ©. R., xlviii, 880, 
