Deutsch and Samuelsson (4) and by Samuelsson (72) shows a difference in the characterization and/or identification of several of the peaks. The present work failed to detect methionine sulfoxide, citrulline, and asparagine, which were reported by those investigators. However, those investigators were unable to find phenylacetylglutamine and sarcosine, which were identified here.In contrast to the possible shortcomings of the ion exchange method mentioned above, the superiority of ion exchange chromatography even as a qualitative tool over paper chromatography should be pointed out. Thus, paper chromatography of the ninhydrinpositive components in desalted milk serum has been applied by several investigators (2, 8, 79).That paper chromatography alone is quite limited in its scope is borne out by the fact that a maximum of only 14 spots were detected, compared to 31 peaks in the present study. This limitation is set by the amount of material which can be applied to a sheet of paper, and by the possible disproporti.onality of the constituents present in the sample.