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number of experiments with different individuals, with a view to studying 

 their normal resting metabolism, have been made and brought together for 

 publication in a report shortly to be issued by the Institution. Similarly the 

 results of a large number of experiments on the effects of the ingestion of 

 food on metabolism have been computed and tabulated ready for publication. 



The large number of test experiments, both with the calorimeters and the 

 respiration apparatus, necessitated by the construction of the new calori- 

 meters, modification of parts, and the improvement of technique, has also 

 called for a great deal of the time of the computers. 



The experiments on diabetes and pregnancy have all been calculated and 

 now only await the verification of the calculations before being ready for 

 publication. 



EDITORIAL AND PUBLICATIONS. 



Since my last report the following publications have been issued. The 

 third article was prepared for publication in 1907, but the other articles have 

 all been written the past year. 



(i) Metabolism in man with greatly diminished lung area. Thorne M. Carpenter and 

 Francis G. Benedict. Amer. Jour. Physiol., 23, p. 412. 1909. 



An experiment on a man whose left lung was completely obliterated, but 

 who was otherwise normal, was made with a respiration calorimeter at Wes- 

 leyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. The experiment lasted 6 hours, 

 and during this period the carbon-dioxide elimination, oxygen consumption, 

 water vaporized, and heat production were determined. The pulse varied 

 from 58 to 70 and the temperature was 36.67°. The naked weight was 47.3 

 kilos and the height 1.69 meters. The total metabolism is low, but when cal- 

 culated on the basis of per kilo of body-weight and compared with the results 

 obtained from similar experiments on other subjects somewhat approxi- 

 mating the weight and state of nutrition of this subject, the results show that 

 the metabolism was substantially at the normal level for thin persons of small 

 body-weight. 



(2) Russian research in metabolism. Francis G. Benedict. Science, n. s., 29, p. 394. 

 1909. 



During a visit to Russia I was so profoundly impressed with the amount 

 and quality of the Russian research in metabolism that provision was made 

 during 1908 to translate a considerable amount of Russian literature on this 

 subject. Reference was made to these translations in my last annual report. 

 In the article here referred to, the nature of the researches, their extent, and 

 the publications describing the results were pointed out. It is of interest 

 here to note that of the large book of Pashutin, of which some 800 pages 

 relating to metabolism during inanition were translated, copies of the transla- 

 tion were deposited in the New York Public Library, the Library of the 

 Surgeon-General in Washington, and the John Crerar Library in Chicago. I 

 have already received assurances from scientific men that these translations 

 have been much appreciated and are in use. 



