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TABLE 48 (continued). Oxygen consumed at different times of day in respiration experiments; 

 subject M. A.M., in post-absorptive condition and lying on couch. (Values per minute.) 



'The experimental periods were usually 15 minutes in length and there was but one period in 



each half hour. 

 'Two other results (seventh period, 231 c.c., and eighth period, 231 c.c.) were obtained and 



included in the average for the day. 



Average of results obtained in ninth to twelfth periods, 246, 235, 236, and 241 c.c., respectively. 

 4 The total number of periods in which the oxygen was determined in the 54 experiments was 153. 



