130 Biochcmical Proceedings, Hygienic Congrcss [Sept. 



Vice-presidents : Dr. Graham Lusk, Professor of Physiology, 

 Cornell University Medical College, New York City; Dr. David L. 

 Edsall, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 

 Boston, Mass. 



II. OFFICIAL PROGRAMM 



All the meetings of the section were held on Sept. 23 to Sept. 27, 

 inclusive, in Washington, D. C, at the new National Museum, 

 Room 376. 



1. Monday afternoon, September 23. The physiological 



SIGNIFICANCE OF SOME SUBSTANCES USED IN THE PRESERVATION OF 



FOOD : Dr. John H. Long, professor of chemistry, Northwestern Uni- 

 versity Medical School, Chicago, 111. (page 132) ; Dr. Artur Schat- 

 tenfroh, professor of hygiene in the University of Vienna, Austria. 



2. Tuesday morning, September 24. The specific dynamic 

 ACTiON OF FOODSTUFFS : Dr. Max Ruhner, professor of physiology 

 and director of the Physiological Institute, Berlin, Germany. {A) 

 The work of digestion and specific dynamic action : Dr. N. Zuntz, 

 Direktor des tierphysiologischen Laboratoriums der landwirtschaft- 

 lichen Hochschule, Berlin, Germany {presented by Prof. F. G. Bene- 

 dict). — (5) The influence of the Ingestion of food upon metabolism: 

 Dr. Francis G. Benedict, director of the Nütrition Laboratory of 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Boston, Mass. (page 134). 

 — (C) The influence of foodstuffs and their cleavage products upon 

 heat production : Dr. Graham Lusk, professor of physiology, Cornell 

 University Medical College, New York City (page 135). 



3. Tuesday afternoon, September 24. Nutrition and 

 GROWTH. (A) An anatomical analysis of growth : Dr. Henry H. 

 Donaldson, The Wistar Institute of Anatomy, Philadelphia, Pa. — 

 (B) Nutrition of the embryo: Dr. John R. Murlin, assistant pro- 

 fessor of physiology, Cornell University Medical College, New York 

 City. — (C) The nutrition and growth of bone: Dr. Francis H. Mc- 

 Crudden, chemist at the Hospital of the Rockefeiler Institute for 

 Medical Research, New York City (page 137). — {D) The role of 

 proteins in growth : Dr. Lofayette B. Mendel, professor of physi- 

 ological chemistry, Shefiield Scientific School of Yale University, 

 New Haven, Conn. (page 138). — (E) The influence of the quantity 



* Abstracts of the papers appear on the pages indicated by the numerals in 

 parenthesis. 



