Various procedures have been develo.)ed to measure precipitin bands produced by specific antigen-antibody reactions in agar-diffusion systems, asdescribedby J. Oudin (Methods Med. Res. 5:335, 1952). These have included visual estisnates of band length by use of a millimeter rule, the use of slide calipers, micrometers for more exact 793
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