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In order to assure you that I have no
disposition to withheld full credit for your
contribution in the field I quote a brief
statement from an article soon to appear. 'As matters
stand the credit for final and complete demonstration
of the hormone (or enzyme) belongs to Banting and
Best. It may be permissible however to remark that
the experiments reported by Murlin and Kramer in
1916 cannot be explaine~Aupon the hypothesis that the
active principle was present in the extracts employed by
them. It is not to detract in the slightest degree
from the brilliance of Banting and Best's achievement,
but to confirm it that we are reporting in more detail
then has hitherto been done the observations made nearly
ten ears ago."
This article will appear in the Journal of
Metabolic Research at an early date I trust.
Very sincerely yours,
JM/s Murlin
JKM/s