6G EXPKHIMENT STATION RECORD. 



How a five-cent lunch is cooked and served at the Honolulu Normal School, 

 Makion P.ki.i. ilin.stdii (U,(,l.iii!/-S<lif,o1 Mdf/., hi {l!l<tS). No. (J, pp. 2<Ki, 2!)3).— 

 Pupils receive part of tlieir traiiiinji in preparing and serving a school lunch. 

 The receipts are used for defraying the exi»enses of the course in cookery and 

 have been adequate for the purpose. The i)lan, it is stated, has proved very 

 successful. 



School lunches {Ann. Rpt. Women's Ed. and Indus. Union, 29 (1908), pp. 34, 

 *5.J).— Hot lunches were suiiplied to 12 schools. The work is briefly described. 



Vegetable products [of northern Nigeria] (Bui. Imp. Inst., 5 (1907), No. S, 

 pp. .127-3.JJ). — ^In an account of northern Nigerian vegetable products in the 

 Indian and Colonial Collections of the Imperial Institute, considerable informa- 

 tion is given regarding guinea corn, Indian corn, rice, acha seed (Dif/itaria 

 sp. ). and other cereals, and roots, vegetables, vegetable fats, etc., used locally 

 for food, ways in which they are prepared for the table, etc. 



Diet in Indo-China, M. Kermorgant (Ann. Hyg. Puh. et Med. Leg., //, so:, 

 7 (1901), pp. Jill-.'iSI). — The author discusses the diet of native and foreign 

 residents of Indo-China, and describes avii liable food supplies, important 

 hygienic measures, and related topics. He states that the natives, as is the 

 case with other races in the far East, live very largely upon rice, pork, fish, 

 and vegetables, rice being eaten in very large quantities. In his opinion, Eu- 

 ropeans living In the Tropics should exercise moderation in diet and should 

 avoid an excess of energy-yielding foods, though the energy value of the diet 

 mu.st be proportional to the amount of physical work performed. The article 

 also furnishes considerable data regarding the food plants cultivated and the 

 animals raised in Indo-China. 



Diet of the poor and its social significance, M. Rubner (Rev. Hyg. et Pol. 

 Banit., 29 (1907), Xo. 9-10, pp. 8.5'/, 8.7.J). — In a paper presented at the Four- 

 teenth International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, the author dis- 

 cusses the results which, in his opinion, follow the long continued use of a diet 

 of low nutritive value and comnosed largely or exclusively of vegetable foods, 

 such as is commonly noted with the poor in Europe. In his opinion such a 

 diet is responsible for defective physical condition, a lowered ability for work, 

 an increase of morbidity and mortality, a lowered resistance to epidemic dis- 

 eases, and similar undesirable results. 



Hygiene in relation to nutrition and physiology, Reiss (Hyg. ZenthJ., 3 

 (1907), No. 13-1 'i. pp. JfOD-'ilJf). — A report of the meeting of the section of 

 hygiene in relation to nutrition and physiology at the Fourteenth International 

 Congress of Hygiene and Demography. Brief abstracts are given of papers 

 presented at the section meeting, inchiding sulphurous acid in foods, by Kerp; 

 the sociological effects of undernutrition, by Rubner (see above), and a paper 

 on the same subject by Blauberg ; a paper on minimum protein requirements, by 

 Rubner; a paper on a similar subject by Forster; and a number of others on 

 a variety of topics. 



In his discussion of protein requirements Forster expresses the opinion that 

 mineral matter in organic combination as existing in the protein molecule is of. 

 great importance. This is shown by the fact that i)rotein from which mineral 

 matter has been removed by dilute hydrochloric acid will not sustain life in 

 animals even if the material thus removed is evaporated, incinerated, and added 

 to the ration. 



Influence of food on the progress of experimental tuberculosis, Lanne- 

 i,ONGUE, Achard, and Gaillard (Compt. Rend. Acad. »S'ci. [Paris], l-'i5 (1907), 

 No. 20, pp. 7S5, 786). — It was found that the progress of experimental tubercu- 

 losis ill guinea pigs was very much delayed when wheat gluten was added to a 



