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THE Standard of Friday last contained the following telegram from its Vienna correspondent:—“On the closing day of the International Congress for Applied Chemistry, an interesting paper was read by Dr. Leo Lilienfeld on the synthesis of albuminous substances. By means of the condensation of phenol and amido-acetic acid with phosphoric oxychloride, the lecturer has succeeded in producing pepton, a substance which, it had hitherto been believed, could be obtained only from organic substances. In order to dispel any doubt as to the possibility of thus making artificial albumen, the lecturer carried out the entire process in the presence of the assembled chemists, and then demonstrated the identity of artificial and natural albumen by means of reactions.” This announcement is of great interest to chemists, and we shall give an account of the synthesis next week, when further details will probably be available.