Note: Cover -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT AT THE UNIVERSITIES -- McGill -- Alberta -- Toronto -- Manitoba -- Western Ontario -- Dalhousie -- Montreal -- Laval -- Queen's -- Saskatchewan -- Ottawa -- British Columbia -- McMaster -- Summary and analysis -- Pathological chemistry -- Toronto -- Western Ontario -- McGill -- BIOCHEMISTRY IN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES -- BIOCHEMISTRY IN INDUSTRY -- BIOCHEMISTRY IN GOVERNMENT LABORATORIES -- National Research Council -- Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. -- Department of the Environment -- Fisheries Research Board -- Forest Products Laboratories -- Department of National Health and Welfare -- Food and Drug Laboratories -- Division of Nutrition -- Department of Agriculture -- Agricultural institutes -- Grain Research Laboratory -- Animal Research Institute -- Food Research Institute -- Chemistry and Biology Research Institute -- Plant Research Institute -- Agricultural Research Institute -- Other research institutes -- Provincial research laboratories -- BIOCHEMISTRY IN SPECIAL INSTITUTES -- McGill-Montreal General Hospital Research Institute -- Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry -- Montreal Neurological Institute -- The Banting Institute -- Banting and Best Department of Medical Research -- Charles H. Best Institute -- Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto -- National Cancer Institute -- BIOCHEMISTRY IN CANADA IN PERSPECTIVE -- Endocrinology -- Neurochemistry -- Carbohydrate chemistry -- Phytochemistry -- BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETIES AND JOURNALS -- Societies -- Journals -- DISTINGUISHED EXPATRIATED BIOCHEMISTS -- FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH -- TECHNICAL PROGRESS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX: List of biochemists cited, with academic qualifications -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF INSTITUTIONS.

Note: Front Cover -- Seaweed Symposium -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contens -- INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE -- FOREWORD -- LIST OF ACTIVE MEMBERS -- PART 1: SPECIAL LECTURES -- CHAPTER 1. SOME RECENT STUDIES ON THE POLYSACCHARIDES OF AGAROPHYTES -- ABSTRACT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2. LOCALIZATION AND STRUCTURE OF ALGINATE GELS -- ABSTRACT -- LOCALIZATION OF ALGINATE -- STRUCTURE OF ALGINATE GELS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3. THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY OF SOME NEW ZEALAND SEAWEEDS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- DESICCATION -- PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND LIGHT INTENSITY DURING SUBMERGENCE -- PHOTOSYNTHESIS DURING RE-IMMERSION -- PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN RELATION TO TEMPERATURE AND OTHER FACTORS -- RESPIRATION -- SUBSIDIARY DATA -- SUMMARY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4. THE SEAWEED INDUSTRY OF THE FUTURE -- ABSTRACT -- ORIENTED LONG-TERM RESEARCH -- APPLIED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -- PART 2: ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS I. BIOLOGY -- CHAPTER 5. IN SITU STUDIES OF SPORE PRODUCTION AND DISPERSAL IN THE GIANT KELP, MACROCYSTIS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISPERSAL -- DISCUSSION -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6. THE LIFE CYCLE OF ACROCHAETIUM LIAGORAE BӦRG -- ABSTRACT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7. DISTRIBUTION OF MARINE ALGAE IN THE BAY OF FUNDY, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- DESCRIPTION OF THE STATIONS -- ANALYSES OF THE FLORAS OF ST. ANDREWS AND LEPREAU -- VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION-WEST ATLANTIC -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 8. EFFECT OF TANNINS EXCRETED FROM PHAEOPHYTA ON PLANKTONIC ANIMAL SURVIVAL IN TIDE POOLS -- REFERENCE -- CHAPTER 9. JUVENILE STAGES IN THE GENUS PORPHYRA -- ABSTRACT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10. PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE MARINE VEGETATION OF THE ANTARCTIC PENINSULA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE INFRALITTORAL BELT -- THE SUPRALITTORAL AND LITTORAL BELTS. , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11. WINTER OBSERVATIONS ON SPECIES OF PORPHYRA FROM HALIFAX COUNTY, NOVA SCOTIA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- OBSERVATIONS -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 12. ALGUES DE LA CÔTE ATLANTIQUE PORTUGUAISE -- CHAPTER 13. OBSERVATIONS ON THE MARINE ALGAL FLORA OF BARBADOS -- CHAPTER 14. A TWO-STAGE SAMPLING METHOD OF ESTIMATING SEAWEED QUANTITIES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- APPLICATION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 15. THE PLACE OF SEAWEEDS IN A GENERAL EVOLUTIONARY THEORY FOR PLANTS -- CHAPTER 16. ALGAL COLONIZATION AFTER REMOVAL OF ECHINUS -- CHAPTER 17. ECOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GIANT KELP AND SEA URCHINS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- GRAZING -- CAUSES OF ECOLOGICAL IMBALANCE -- CONTROL OF URCHINS -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 18. ON THE OCCURRENCE OF UNILOCULAR SPORANGIA IN THE LIFE-HISTORY OF SCYTOSIPHON LOMENTARIA (LYNGB.) J.AG -- CHAPTER 19. CONNECTIVE TISSUE STIMULATION IN GUINEA PIGS BY POLYSACCHARIDES DERIVED FROM MARINE ALGAE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- EXPERIMENTAL -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 20. CORRELATED LIGHT AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPE STUDIES OF THE CELL WALLS OF FUCUS -- CHAPTER 21. SUBLITTORAL SURVEYING FOR COMMERCIAL SEAWEEDS IN NORTHUMBERLAND STRAIT -- ABSTRACT -- ECOLOGICAL CONDITION -- DETAILS OF SUBSTRATUM AND COVER - CAPE JOHN TO CARIBOU POINT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 22. THE OCCURRENCE OF CHITAN, A β-(1β → 4)-LINKED 2-ACETAMIDO-2-DEOXY D-GLUCAN, IN DIATOMS -- CHAPTER 23. APICAL DOMINANCE IN FUCUS VESICULOSUS -- CHAPTER 24. DEVELOPMENT OF ZOOSPORES IN RALFSIA-LIKE THALLUS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE SCYTOSIPHONALES -- CHAPTER 25. THE GAMETOPHYTE OF PADINA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN -- ABSTRACT -- NTRODUCTION -- MATERIALS AND METHODS -- OBSERVATIONS. , DISCUSSIONS -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 26. PERSISTENT, VERTICAL-MIGRATION RHYTHMS IN BENTHIC MICROFLORA. V. THE EFFECT OF ARTIFICIALLY IMPOSED LIGHT AND DARK CYCLES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 27. ON THE SPECIES AND DISTRIBUTION OF GELIDIUM IN JAPAN -- CHAPTER 28. ANTIFOULING IN SARGASSUM NATANS: RE-RECOGNITION OF TANNIN ACTIVITY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 29. VARIATION IN THE GENUS POLYSIPHONIA GREVILLE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- OBSERVATIONS -- DISCUSSION -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 30. THE OCCURRENCE OF BENTHIC MARINE ALGAE UNDER SHORE FAST-ICE IN THE WESTERN ROSS SEA, ANTARCTICA -- ABSTRACT -- SURVEY OF PREVIOUS WORK -- PRESENT INVESTIGATIONS -- LOCALITIES AND HABITATS -- MARINE ALGAL ZONATION -- LIGHT AND THE VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ROSS SEA ALGAE -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- PART 3: ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS II. CHEMISTRY -- CHAPTER 31. DIMETHYL-β-PROPIOTHETIN: DETERMINATION BY REACTOR GAS-LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY, OCCURRENCE IN ALGAE, AND IMPLICATIONS IN FISHERIES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES -- EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 32. THE REPEATING STRUCTURE OF SOME POLYSACCHARIDE SULPHATES FROM RED SEAWEEDS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION AND DISCUSSION -- EXPERIMENTAL -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 33. THE EVALUATION OF SOME RED MARINE ALGAE AS A SOURCE OF CARRAGEENAN -- CHAPTER 34. ASPECTS OF RHODOPHYCEAN PHOTOSYNTHESIS -- CHAPTER 35. THE FINE STRUCTURE OF SOLUBLE LAMINARIN -- ABSTRACT -- THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF β-l,3-GLUCANS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 36. STRUCTURAL STUDIES ON THE WATER-SOLUBLE POLYSACCHARIDE FROM THE GREEN SEAWEED ULVA LACTUCA PART IV. SMITH DEGRADATION -- ABSTRACT -- EXPERIMENTAL -- REFERENCES. , CHAPTER 37. A STUDY ON THE CONSTITUTION OF ALGINIC ACID BY PARTIAL ACID HYDROLYSIS -- ABSTRACT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 38. A NOVEL BROMINATED PHENOLIC DERIVATIVE FROM POLYSIPHONIA LANOSA -- CHAPTER 39. TOCOPHEROL DETERMINATION IN SEAWEEDS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- TOCOPHEROL DISTRIBUTION IN SEAWEEDS -- QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF TOCOPHEROLS IN SEAWEEDS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 40. PREPARATION AND STRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION OF ASCOPHYLLAN -- ABSTRACT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 41. PHYSICO-CHEMICAL STUDIES ON CHITAN (PURE CRYSTALLINE β-(1 β → 4)-LINKED 2-ACETAMIDO-2-DEOXY-D-GLUCAN) -- CHAPTER 42. STUDIES ON THE SOLUBILITY OF ALGINIC ACID FROM ASCOPHYLLUM NODOSUM AT LOW pH -- ABSTRACT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 43. THE LOCATION OF THE SULPHATE HALF-ESTER GROUPS IN FURCELLARAN AND ϰ-CARRAGEENAN -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MATERIALS AND METHODS -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 44. AGAROSE AND AGAROPECTIN IN GELIDIUM AND GRACILARIA AGAR -- ABSTRACT -- EXPERIMENTAL -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 45. POLYSACCHARIDES FROM CORALLINA OFFICINALIS -- ABSTRACT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 46. THE ENZYMIC HYDROLYSIS OF ϰ-CARRAGEENAN WITH ϰ-CARRAGEENASE FROM PSEUDOMONAS CARRAGEENOVORA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- EXPERIMENTAL -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 47. THE PURIFICATION AND PROPERTIES OF AN AGARASE FROM A MARINE BACTERIUM, PSEUDOMONAS ATLANTICA -- ABSTRACT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 48. THE CHEMICAL NATURE OF THE INSOLUBLE RESIDUE AFTER SEVERE EXTRACTION IN SOME RHODOPHYCEAE AND PHAEOPHYCEAE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MATERIALS AND METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART 4: ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS III. APPLICATIONS -- CHAPTER 49. SOME PROPERTIES OF SEAWEED MANURES -- ABSTRACT -- SEAWEED AND SEED GERMINATION -- SEAWEED AND FROST RESISTANCE -- EFFECT OF SEAWEED ON THE UPTAKE OF NUTRIENTS. , SEAWEED AND FUNGAL DISEASES -- SEAWEED AND INSECT PESTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 50. GROWTH OF HIGHER PLANTS IN RESPONSE TO FEEDING WITH SEAWEED EXTRACTS -- ABSTRACT -- EXPERIMENTAL -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 51. AN EXPERIMENTAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE CLINICAL USE OF AN ALGAL PHYTOCOLLOID (ALGASOL T331) IN ONCOLOGY -- CHAPTER 52. AN EXPERIMENTAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE CLINICAL USE OF AN ALGAL PHYTOCOLLOID (ALGASOL T331) IN ONCOLOGY -- CHAPTER 53. SEAWEEDS AS RADIOACTIVITY INDICATORS OF MARINE ENVIRONMENT -- ABSTRACT -- MATERIALS AND METHODS -- DISCUSSION -- CHAPTER 54. A REPORT ON ALGINIC ACID AS A TABLET DISINTEGRANT -- CHAPTER 55. ABOUT THE MILK REACTIVITY OF SEVERAL RED SEAWEED EXTRACTS -- CHAPTER 56. THE USE OF GELLED ALGINATES FOR CONTROLLING THE FLOW OF WATER IN POROUS GROUND -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- EXPERIMENTAL -- DISCUSSION -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 57. SEAWEED MEAL AS A SOURCE OF MINERALS AND VITAMINS IN RATIONS FOR DAIRY COWS AND BACON PIGS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 58. SUPPRESSION OF INTESTINAL ABSORPTION OF RADIOSTRONTIUM BY SUBSTANCES OCCURRING IN PHAEOPHYCEAE -- ABSTRACT -- GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS -- USE OF ALGINATE TO SUPPRESS ABSORPTION OF RADIOSTRONTIUM -- STRONTIUM89 ABSORPTION IN THE PRESENCE OF SODIUM ALGINATE -- APPLICABILITY IN HUMAN SUBJECTS -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 59. THE EFFECT OF HYDROLYSED SEAWEED ON CERTAIN PLANT PESTS AND DISEASES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- EXPERIMENTA -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.