MEETINGS OF THE SECTION (II) ON DIETETIC 



HYGIENE AND HYGIENIC PHYSIOLOGY OF 



THE FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL 



CONGRESS ON HYGIENE AND 



DEMOGRAPHY, WITH AB- 



STRACTS OF SOME 



OF THE PAPERS 



Proceedings reported by THE Secretary, 

 LAFAYETTE B. MENDEL 



The meeting o£ the Congress was noteworthy for the unusual 

 opportunity which it afforded to American men of science to meet 

 some of their foreign colleagues, particularly those from the Con- 

 tinent, in a personal way. It can scarcely be said that the proceed- 

 ings of the Section on Dietetic Hygiene and Hygienic Physiology 

 were unique in any way; nor could they be expected to attract the 

 Chief interest where so many important disciplines and conflicting 

 or overlapping scientific fields were involved. The Symposium on 

 the specific dynamic action of foodstuffs deserves special comment, 

 however, both on account of the new views which were forcefully 

 presented there for the first time, and the preeminent part played 

 by all of the referees in the development of this field of study. 



I. OFFICIAL LIST OF PRESIDENTS AND VICE-PRESIDENTS 



OF THE SECTION 



Honorary Presidents : Dr. Max Rubner, Professor of Phys- 

 iology and Director of the Physiological Institute, Berlin, Germany ; 

 Dr. Artur Schattenfroh, Professor of Hygiene in the Univer- 

 sity of Vienna, Austria ; Dr. Axel Holst, Professor of Hygiene, 

 University of Christiania, Norway ; Dr. A. B. Macallum, Profes- 

 sor of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Canada. 



President: Dr. Russell H. Chittenden, Professor of Phys- 

 iological Chemistry, Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, 

 New Haven, Conn. 



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