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the enormous 'accretions annually made to its literature, renders 
it impossible to present a 'complete 'survey of so immense a field of 
labor in the address of an evening. What has been said is little 
more than a beginning of what has been done in this line of bio- 
chemical research — the promise of its future remains to be told. 
Beside the great intellectual gain must be placed the immense 
practical benefits such investigations have secured for man — as 
witnessed in the saving of millions of lives of human beings, many 
times more of the lower animals, and large areas of plant life. 
They have ever made for the betterment and happiness of man, 
and for the highest progress of civilization, and so will they con- 
tinue. 
* Address at the annual meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, held 
in the Chemical Theatre of the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, October 
26, 1900. 
^Presidential Address; British Association, Dover, 1899, by Sir Michael 
Foster, K. C. B. 
Address of welcome on the occasion of the centenary festival of the 
Royal College of Surgeons of England (July 25-27, 1900), delivered by Sir 
William MacCormac, Bart., K. C. V. O., etc. (President), and published in 
The Lancet, London, No. 4013, p. 281; also in Science, August 17, 1900. 
2 Jenner, Sir William: Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Vari- 
olae Vaccinae; London, May 14, 1796. 
s Hueppe, Prof. Dr. Ferdinand: The Principles of Bacteriology, done into 
English by Dr. E. O. Jordan (1899), p. 446. 
4 Croonian Lecture: On Immunity with Special reference to Cell Life, 
by Professor Dr. Paul Ehrlich, Director of the Royal Prussian Institute of 
Experimental Therapeutics, Frankfort-on-the-Main, read March 22, 1900, 
before the Royal Society, London, and published in Proceedings R. S., p. 
425. 
5 Hueppe, F.: Loc. cit., pp. 225-226. 
6 Buck, A. H., M. D.: A Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health, Vol. 
I., p. 18. 
7 Hueppe, F.: Loc. cit., pp. 231-232. 
8 Ibid, p. 48. 
9 Bokorny and Loew: Botan. Centralblatt, 1889 and 1893. 
10 Loew, Oscar: Science, June 15, 1900, pp. 932-933; see also Die Che- 
mische Energie der lebenden Zellen, von Prof. Dr. Oscar Loew; and Ein 
naturliches System der Giftwirkungen, by the same author, for a full dis- 
cussion of this subject. (Both books are published by Dr. E. Wolff, 
Munich.) 
n Loew : Loc. cit. 
12 Ibid. 
“Fischer, Emil: Einfluss der Configuration auf die Wirkung der 
Enzyme. Ber. d. deut. chem. Gesell., 1894, 27 , 2985, 3479 and 1895, 28 , 
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