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physiological chemistry. In Galicia such professorships are 
established in the universities of Lemberg and Krakow. In 
Italy and France, as far as I can learn, there are no such pro- 
fessorships, but accurate information is lacking. In Sweden, 
at Upsala, the biochemist Hammarsten is Professor of Physi- 
ological and Medical Chemistry. At Stockholm there is also 
a professorship in this science, as well asin Lund. It all these 
cases, it will be understood, there are separate professorships in 
physiology. In England there are no professorships of, bio- 
chemistry. The biochemist Halliburton is Professor of Physi- 
ology in Kings College, London. In Cambridge University, 
in the extensive laboratories of Professor Michael Foster, con- 
siderable space is devoted to biochemistry under the direction 
of Dr. Sheridan Lea. 
In Germany there is one magazine, “ Die Zeitschrift fur 
Physiologioche Chemie,” devoted entirely to this science. 
About four-fifths of the “ Zeitschrift fiir Biologie,” one-fourth of 
Pfliiger’s “ Archiv für die gesammte Physiologie,” nearly all 
of Rominsed oberg: s “Archiv für experimental Pathologie u. Phar- 
makologie ” consist of biochemical papers. Many papers also 
appear in Virchow’s Archiv, in the Bacteriologische Central- 
blatt and various other scientific publications. 
In England the “ Journal of Physiology ” contains a greater 
or less number of biochemical articles—but there-is not in the 
English language any magazine devoted exclusively to this 
science. Nor is there any American Journal of Physiology in 
which biochemical papers could appear. The English Journal 
of Physiology is the only journal which will give physiological 
and biochemical papers a general circulation. It is unfortun- 
ate that so large a proportion of physiological papers from 
American laboratories should be driven to the German journals 
and language. This is the more to be regretted since the his- 
tory of the Journal of Morphology teaches that an American 
physiological journal, publishing papers of a high class, would 
have an assured circulation among European scientific men. 
We, in America, are in a backward condition when compared 
with Germany, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland. Biochemis- 
try in America has suffered, like physiology, from being con- 
