J. P. Cooke—Atomic Weight of Antimony. 107 
Schiff,* entitled “‘ A new function of the liver,” in which the 
author demonstrates in the most convincing manner by means 
of experiments on dogs and frogs conducted in the physiologi- 
eal laboratory in Geneva, that the liver has the power of completely 
decomposing poisonous matters generated by the wasting of tissues. 
Ligation of the vessels of the liver, especially of the portal vein, 
death in the course of one to three hours. In frogs, it is true, liga- 
tion produced little effect, but this is only because of the slow- 
ness of the changes in their tissnes; for the blood of dogs dead 
of ligated livers injected into the circulation of frogs quickly 
destroyed life if their livers are ligated, but produced no effect if 
the livers are unligated. Moreover many other organic poi- 
sons were shown to be either wholly or partly destroyed and 
rendered innocuous by the liver. Doubtless this is the true 
rather an extension of the glycogenic function, throwing upo 
it a new light and giving it a new significance. It is precisely 
this new significance which I have attempted to set forth in the 
foregoing paper. 
Berkeley, Cal., Oct. 15, 1877. 
Art. XV.—Revision of the Alomic Weight of Antimony; by 
Jostan P. Cooke, Jr. 
(Concluded from page 49.) 
_ AFTER a long series of experimeuts, which threw but little 
light on the cause of the discrepancy that had now become so 
prominent, although they yielded very interesting subsidiary 
results which are described in detail in the original paper, we 
Made a series of analyses of antimonious bromide with the 
hope that if there was, as we suspected, a_ 
error in the analyses of anitimonious chloride, the same influ- 
weswould affect the analyses of the corresponding bromide to 
* Arch. des Sciences, lviii, 293, March, 1877. 
