é to discover the presence of any material which prevented 
reactions for sugar. 
_ 21.) At the conclusion of this paper, Bernard remarked that 
the glycogenic function of the liver, as at first enunciated by 
_ tim, was now incontestibly proven. 
(22.) In a paper published by Hensen,* he confirmed Ber- 
’s view that the liver contains an insoluble body which is 
verted into sugar by the action of a ferment, by acting on 
substance of the boiled liver by the salivary and pancreatic 
ments, and thus producing sugar; he also converted starch 
Sugar by means of the liver ferment. : 
.) Pogarare, in a communication to the Academy in Feb. 
6,; contests the opinion that the presence of an alkaline 
