^{page 392 note 1} Sometimes called “amides,” but it is highly desirable that this term should be dropped. The word “amide” has a definite chemical significance, and many of the nitrogenous non-protein bodies in plants are not “amides” but amino-acids, etc.

^{page 392 note 2} E.g. Griffiths, Chem. News, 1894, 70, 273: see also Lafar, Tech. Mycology, p. 262.

^{page 392 note 3} Die Zersetzung der Organischen Stoffe, 1897.

^{page 393 note 1} Sweet Silage, 1885, Agric. Press Co. London.Google Scholar

^{page 393 note 2} Centr. für Bakt. 1902, 9, 81.

^{page 394 note 1} In the apparatus designed by Drs Brown and Millar (Trans. Guinness Research Lab. 1903, 1, 30).

^{page 398 note 1} 55 per cent, was the mean amount obtained from silage juice; the actual amount, however, varied considerably in different samples from 38 per cent. to about 65 per cent.

^{page 400 note 1} The maximum of 33° to 37°C. observed in the Wye silo was always reached in about 5 days; there was then a slow but regular fall.

^{page 403 note 1} A large number of bodies react with iodine and sodium hydrate to form iodoform, but under the high power of the microscope this is seen to form hexagonal plates excepting when ethyl alcohol is present, in which case the crystals are star-shaped.

^{page 403 note 2} Glycol gives oxalic acid on oxidation.

^{page 403 note 3} Dunstan's test was used, Pharm. Journal [8], vol. 14, p. 41.Google Scholar

^{page 403 note 4} The higher primary alcohols give aldehyde on oxidation. Fusel oil is insoluble in ether and this substance readily dissolved.

^{page 405 note 1} Prepared by boiling a 30% solution of normal acetate with excess of finely ground litharge, allowing to cool, and filtering.

^{page 406 note 1} Zeitschrift für Physiolog. Chemie (Hoppe-Seyler), 1896, 22, 177 and 1898, 26, 586.Google Scholar