Glucose content of the body fluid in marine annelids.

Bahl (1) maintains that there are 100 mg. of glucose in 100 cc. of earthworm blood but that there is no sugar in the coelomic fluid. On the other hand, Damboviceanu (2) found no reducing sugar in the plasma from Xipunculus n&us. There is no information in the literature concerning the sugar content of the body fluid in marine annelids from the American coast. A series of analyses was, consequently, made to ascertain the amount of glucose in two common North American marine worms.