“…The concentration of this cation in the red cells is about twenty times as great as in the plasma. During storage, however, there is a loss of potassium from the red cells, (Duliere, 1931a(Duliere, , 1931bJeannei^y et al, 1938aJeannei^y et al, , 1938bDeGowin et al, 1939DeGowin et al, , 1940Scudder et al, 1939Scudder et al, , 1940Scudder et al, , 1941Denstedt, 1941;Muether andAndrews, 1941a, 1941b;Loutit, 1943Loutit, -1944Maizels, 1943Maizels, -1944 and a number of others. )…”