232 BEHAVIOUR OF VEAST AT A HIGH TEMPERATURE. 



all I tested were killed by the moderately diluted aldehyde 

 even in perfectly neutral solution.'" This observation, from 

 which I infered that probably labile amido-groups are connected 

 with the activity of the enzymes, was confirmed about four years 

 later in the histitiit Pasteur in Paris. 



(I) Journ f. prakt. Cliem 1888 p. 104. 



