l62 REPORTS OF INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



possible to modify many details in the construction and equipment as a result 

 of the ideas and suggestions obtained on the tours of Mr. Carpenter and 

 myself. 



During the spring of 1908 Mr. Carpenter made a visit to a number of for- 

 eign laboratories, with a special view to obtaining details regarding the 

 manipulation and installation of various types of respiration apparatus and 

 was accorded every facility by the investigators in the different laboratories. 

 His experience has been of great value in installing the new apparatus in the 

 laboratory, and much of this apparatus is now in excellent working order. 



Editorial and Computing Division. — As a result of my visit to St. Peters- 

 burg, many important researches in metabolism, both with animals and men, 

 were discovered as inaccessible to most readers, since they were published in 

 Russian. Believing that the material should be on record in this laboratory 

 in available form, extensive translations have been made during the past year 

 by Messrs. Alexander Rose and Michal Groosenberg and Miss Monossowitch. 

 Some impression of the amount of work involved may be obtained from the 

 fact that Pashutin's discussion of metabolism during fasting, covering 817 

 large Russian pages, was completely translated. Several other monographs 

 by Likhachev, Awrorow, and Kartaschef sky are also finished. 



Anticipating the delay in the accumulation of new experimental work pend- 

 ing the completion of the building, the computation of a large number of ex- 

 periments made at Wesleyan University was reserved to occupy this time to 

 advantage. The calculations have progressed very satisfactorily under the 

 charge of Mr. W. H. Leslie. 



It was impracticable to attempt to prepare final reports of experiments for 

 publication until the distractions involved in construction and equipment 

 should at least, in part, be absent. 



