Transcriber’s Notes

The following typographical errors have been corrected:

Page 180Abfällen, Vieweg, Braunschweig,” - had “Viewig”.

Page 188 “wires d from the dynamo D” - had “dynano”.

Page 191 “phosphate are attached, for example,” - had “attached, For”.

Page 192 “But phosphatides occur” - had “phosphatide soccur”.

Page 193 “the nucleic acid from the thymus” - had “nucleidic”.

Page 199 “acetylcholine esterase.” - had “acetylcholin”.

Page 200 “George de Hevesy, Carl F. Cori,” - comma added after Hevesy.

Footnote 39: “See, e.g., Chemical Week, vol. 77” - had “See. e.g.”

Index Entry: “Gahn, Johann Gottlieb, 182” - had “Gähn”

The spelling of “Bertholet” [Claude Louis Berthollet] is as given on the original title page of the work referenced in this paper.

Inconsistent hyphenation of chemical names has been retained.