THE IDENTIFICATION OF VITAMIN C
PRIORITY questions are not of primary importance to
science and should be left to posteriority.  If, however,
such problems are discussed it is desirable that state-
ments made should be correct and complete.
The chronological list of events given by G. C. Coxl
ISCIENCE, December 10, 1937, p. 540.


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should be completed with reference to my lecture de-  of this lecture was published unchanged in the Deutsche
livered before the Hungarian Medical Association on  Med. Wochendw-ift (No. 22, 1932). This paper was
March 18, 1932.  In this lecture the identity of Vita-  followed by the note of King and Waugh in SCIENCE
min C and the "hexuronic acid," described by myself  of April 1, and the two notes of Svirbely and Szent-
in 1928, was deilnitely stated and experimental evi-  Gykgyi in Nature of April 16 and May 7.
dence given.  This lecture was reported by all journals                     A. SZENT-GY~RGYI
publishing the proceedings of that society.2  The text    UNIVERSITY OF SZEQED