(1942)). A number of references to theliterature of this subject are to be found in the article by Cheney and Bywater. Recently Burtner and Cusic (THIS JOURNAL, 66, 262 (1943)) published the syntheses of a number of basic esters of arylacetic acids which have been examined pharmacologically by Lehmann and Knoefel (J Pharmu-col.. 74, 217, 274 (1942).