Recent Advances in the Study of Enzymes

PROF. R. WILLST TTER, of Munich, and his former pupil, Prof. Waldschmidt-Leitz, of Prague, were the chief speakers at a discussion on recent advances in the study of enzymes, held by the Royal Society on June 16. Most of the contributions were primarily descriptions of particular pieces of work, so that the discussion had no formal unity. It was therefore all the more striking that the proceedings should compose so readily into a set of variations on a group of related themes, indicating quite clearly what are the main problems in current enzyme research. Lack of time cut short the beginnings of an interesting general discussion.