VI. Researches on myohamatin and the histohæmatins

Abstract

In a short paper read before the Physiological Society, in 1884 I gave a preliminary account of a new colouring matter which I had discovered in muscle by means of the spectroscope; also of a class of colouring matters found in the tissues and organs of invertebrate and vertebrate animals to which the former pigment evidently belongs, and which I named histohæmatins from their occurrence in the animal tissues. The name myohæmatin was proposed for the muscle pigment for reasons which will be given further on. Since the publication of that paper I have been engaged in working out the distri­bution of these pigments in the Animal Kingdom, and have tried to find out their relationship to other colouring matters and the changes produced in them by reagents.