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IN a letter published in NATURE of Nov. 15, Mr. A. Chaston Chapman announces the interesting discovery of antimony in an animal. He refers also to the known presence of vanadium and arsenic in certain animal tissues. We purposely omitted from our letter to NATURE of Nov. 1 reference to a number of other elements which have previously been recorded as occurring in animal tissues but which have not up to the present been detected in our work, for reasons already given by one of us1. They are the following: Aluminium, zinc, boron, and silicon, from numerous animals; gold in mammals 2; titanium in an ascidian 3; bismuth 4 and tin 5 in human organs; vanadium, not only in ascidians, but also in a holothurian6. In addition, Dr. J. Needham has directed our attention to records of molybdenum7 and uranium8 in hens' eggs.
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FOX, H., RAMAGE, H. Elements present in Animal Tissues. Nature 126, 883 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126883c0
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