Excerpt from A Biochemic Basis for the Study of Problems of Taxonomy, Heredity, Evolution, Etc, Vol. 1 of 2: With Especial Reference to the Starches and Tissues of Parent-Stocks and Hybrid-Stocks and the Starches and Hemoglobins of Varieties, Species, and Genera Comparing the results of the various biologic tests with those recorded by means of the methods used in the starch and hemoglobin researches, it seems to be conclusively demonstrated, as far as these investigations have gone, that the latter are capable of practically unlimited development by addition and improvement. The studies of the starches and hemo globins are not more than merely started, and there remain virtually untouched (for exceptionally invit ing and extensive investigation) albumins, globulins, proteoses, glycogens, fats, cholesterols, alkaloids, en zymes, hormones, and a host of other substances that undoubtedly appear in animal and plant life in stereo isomeric forms that are specifically modified in rela tion to the protoplasmic source. When one pictures what these three exploratory researches have brought forth and what they suggest as being in part the outcome of further inquiry the imagination becomes bewildered by the marvellous richness of what is thus forecasted. The methods used in the preceding research have in the present investigation been extended and so improved as to yield records that are satisfactory in quantity, kind, and accuracy; and in reference thereto, it seems needless at this juncture to do more than pre sent certain excerpts from reports by the writer that have appeared in the Year Books of the Carnegie Institution of Washington or elsewhere, as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.