“…Table I contains average percentage values of different classes of constituents in freshly harvested leaves of mature tobacco plants before drying, the data being obtained by compiling a great number of individual analyses as re-CHEMICAL CHANGES I N T H E HARVESTED TOBACCO L E A F 3 13 c,orded in the literature (6,7,25,32,40,52,81,104,113,119,123,131,201,238,240,242,250,258,262,305,321,335). Since leaves are the raw material of curing and fermentation processes, our survey deals with the composition of the tobacco leaf only, and not with the stalk or root of the plant.…”