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NOTWITHSTANDING the systematised courses in biochemistry which are now available in many centres, the new edition of this book will continue to subserve the authors' original aim of providing students of biology with an account of the chemistry and physiological significance of some of the more important substances occurring in the plant. It contains sections on fats, oils, and waxes, aldehydes and alcohols, carbohydrates, glucosides, tannins, pigments, nitrogen bases, the colloidal state, pro teins, and enzymes; there is also an appendix on hydrogen ion concentration. It has been brought up-to-date, and although necessarily it contains a good deal of somewhat elementary matter, one may suggest that it could be read with profit by organic chemists who are wishful to view their subject from a biological outlook.
An Introduction to the Chemistry of Plant Products.
By Dr. Paul Haas Dr. T. G. Hill. Vol. 1: On the Nature and Significance of the Commoner Organic Compounds of Plants. Fourth edition. Pp. xvi + 530. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1928.) 18s. net.
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R., J. Chemistry. Nature 123, 373 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123373a0
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