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A sojourn of several days by Dr. Eugene F. DuBois, of Bellevue Hospital, 

 New York, was, as is always the case, of great value to the Laboratory. 



An increasing number of clinicians have sought advice during the year from 

 the members of the Laboratory staff to obtain first-hand information regard- 

 ing apparatus and technique for use in measurements of the basal metabolism. 



STAFF NOTES. 



The debt owed by the Carnegie Institution of Washington to educational 

 institutions for personnel is being rapidly repaid by the fact that members of 

 the staffs of the Institution are being sought by large universities. It has 

 been our particular misfortune to receive the resignation of Professor Walter 

 R. Miles, who, after nine years of most active and fruitful service, not only as 

 an investigator but likewise as an extraordinary administrator, leaves the 

 Laboratory to go to the head of the department of experimental psychology 

 at Leland Stanford Junior University. His studies on the physiology and 

 psychology of the effects of alcohol upon the human organism are some of the 

 most noteworthy contributions from the Laboratory. Indeed, at the moment 

 of writing he is completing several monographs and papers on this subject. 



Not only do educational institutions draw from our staff, but the establish- 

 ment of metabolism centers likewise results in withdrawals from the Labora- 

 tory staff. After many years of assistance in the Laboratory, particularly in 

 gas analysis and in the study of the metabolism of young girls, Miss Mary F. 

 Hendry has resigned to accept the charge of gaseous-metabolism work under 

 a former cooperating investigator, Dr. Fritz B. Talbot. 



The extraordinary skill shown by Miss Marion L. Baker and her long 

 experience in a wide variety of metabolism researches with both animals and 

 humans have resulted in her accepting a position in charge of the metab- 

 olism tests to be made in the metabolism department in the New England 

 Deaconess Hospital independently established by our collaborator, Dr. 

 Elliott P. Joslin. 



INVESTIGATIONS IN PROGRESS. 



Composition of urine as affected by ingestion of 2.75 per cent alcohol. — The 

 study of the effect of the ingestion of 2.75 per cent alcohol upon the com- 

 position of urine eliminated in short periods, which was begun in 1921 by 

 Dr. T. M. Carpenter, has been continued. The determinations of inorganic 

 phosphorus, inorganic sulphates, ethereal sulphates, and total sulphur have 

 been made for a number of control days and days on which 2.75 per cent 

 alcohol was taken. The analyses were made by Mr. Y. Habeshian. 



Composition of the urine of fasting steers. — In connection with the metab- 

 olism studies upon fasting steers at the New Hampshire Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, urines were collected for 24 hours with two steers for fasts of 

 5, 7, 10, and 14 days' duration. Dr. Carpenter has made a partial study of the 

 inorganic elements in these urines in that the total sulphur, inorganic sulphates, 

 ethereal sulphates, and chlorides have been determined. The analyses were 

 made by Mr. Habeshian. 



Development of a new gas-analysis apparatus. — A new gas-analysis appara- 

 tus has been devised by Dr. Carpenter to meet requirements for use in the 

 analysis of respiration-chamber air, when the oxygen deficit and carbon- 



