CONTENTS. 



J. 



D. T. MacDougal: The effect of potassium iodide, methylene blue and other sub- 

 stances applied to the embryo sacs of seed-plants. I (933). \J 

 J. Bronfenbrenner: The proteolytic enzyme is not specific. 2 (934). 

 J. Bronfenbrenner: The Abderhalden reaction is not an adsorption phenomenon. 

 3 (935)- 



Bronfenbrenner: The Abderhalden test is rendered negative by the addition 

 of serum antitrypsin. 4 (936). 

 J. Bronfenbrenner: The serum is the source of dialyzable substances. 5 (937). 

 • iC. C. Lieb: The effect of the pituitary on the isolated human uterus. 6 (938). 

 , F. S. Lee and E. L. Scott: On the action of temperature and humidity on the or- 

 ganism. 7 (939). 



J. H. Means (by invitation): Studies of the basal metabolism and its relation to the 

 body surface in obesity, myxedema and pituitary disease. 8 (940). 

 N John R. Murlin: The energy metabolism of infants in relation to age and nutritive 

 condition. 9 (941). 



Delafield DuBois and Eugene F. DuBois: The measurement of the surface area 

 of adults. 10 (942). 



' . Raymond Pearl: On the law relating milk flow to age in dairy cattle. 11 (943). 

 J. Rosenbloom: A case of diabetes mellitus, complicated by alimentary pentosuria 



and occasional lactosuria. 12 (944). 

 J. Rosenbloom: Metabolism studies in a case of diabetes insipidus in a four year 

 1 old boy. 13 (945)- 



; Olaf Bergeim (by invitation): The origin of gastric hydrochloric acid. 14 (946). 

 , Olaf Bergeim (by invitation): Phospho-nuclease as related to phosphorus and 



calcium metabolism. 15 (947). 

 L. J. Cole and L. J. Bachhuber: The effect of lead on the germ cells of the male 



rabbit and fowl, as indicated by their progeny. 16 (948). 

 ' -S. Simpson and R. L. Hill: The action of pituitrin on the secretion of the mammary 



gland. 17 (949)- 



Henry Laurens: The reactions of the melanophores of Amblystoma larvae. 18 

 / (950). 



„■ Theo. C. Burnett (by invitation): Note on the reestablishment of a tendency to 

 metastasize in a Flexner-Jobling carcinoma. 19 (951). 

 Jean V. Cooke: Immunity tests in coccidioidal granuloma. 20 (952). 



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