270 G. F. Barker—Physiological Chemistry. 
and in the blood was there shown. The mechanism of the func- 
tion had been announced before Schiff’s experiments appeared. 
“‘M. Schiff says himself that he agrees with me ; but he thinks 
that he has more accurately distinguished and located micro- 
scopically the hepatic starch, and so has proved my views better 
than I have myself. If this be so, I cannot but be satisfied ; 
but I see not how this gives him any claim to priority.” 
54.) On the 30th of May, Rovcer communicated another 
paper to the Academy,* on the amorphous amylaceous matter 
contained in the vertebrate and invertebrate foetal tissues. 
This substance—for which he proposes the name Zoamylin—is 
not granular, but consists of a plasma holding in suspension fatty 
or nitrogenous granulations. Moreover, ossifiable cartilages 
must be added to the embryonic tissues containing amylaceous 
matter ; though this is not found in the substance of the carti- 
lage, but only in the cells, which in a foetal lamb 13 to 2 months 
old, are colored rose-violet with iodine. With this amylaceous 
has the placenta any new function, The presence of this sub- 
(55, 56.) Already given as paragraphs (43) and (44). 
*C. R., xlviii, 1018, 
(7 be concluded.) 
