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The translations made during the past year have included a number of 

 Russian monographs, also Bohemian and Danish papers, and are now 

 a part of our library. A complete list follows : 



I. A. Pashtjtin: 



A study of the metabolism of animals during insufficient feeding and subsequent 

 realimentation. Dissertation, St. Petersburg, 1895, 96+lxiii pp. 



0. S. SoLTz: 



On the anatomical modifications of the bone marrow of animals during acute inanition 

 and subsequent realimentation. Dissertation, Vilna, 1894, 81 pp. 



1. I. Pbotastov: 



Metabolism of matter in the organism during the exclusive feeding of sugar. From the 

 Laboratory of General and Experimental Pathology at the Military Medical 

 Academy. Dissei*tation, St. Petersburg, 1895, 66 pp. 

 K. A. Hasselbalch: 



Respiration experiments with new-born uifants. Bibliotek for Laeger, Copenhagen, 

 1904, 8, R. v., 219 (29 pp.). 

 F. MareS: 



On the winter sleep of mammals. From the Physiological Institute of the Imperial 

 and Royal Bohemian University in Prague. Sbornik Lekarsky (Archives 

 Bohemes de MMecme), 1889, 2, 458. 

 F. Mare§: 



Respirometry and calorimetry of animals. V. Principle of conservation of energy in 

 physiology. From the Physiological Institute of the Imperial and Royal Bohe- 

 mian University in Prague. Rozpravy Cesk4 Akademie Cisare Frantiska Josefa, 

 1901, 2 (10). 

 E. Babak: 



Respu-ometry and calorimetry of animals. IV. Heat regulation of the new-born. 

 From the Physiological Institute of the Imperial and Royal Bohemian Univer- 

 sity in Prague. Rozpravy Cesk6 Akademie Cisare Frantiska Josefa, 1901, 2 (10). 



PUBLICATIONS. 

 The following publications have been issued during the year: 



(1) Chemical and physiological studies of a man fasting 31 days. Francis G. Benedict 



Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 1, 228 (1915). 



A short statement with metabolism chart giving an abstract of the extensive 

 presentation of data in Publication No. 203 of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington. 



(2) The metaboUsm of vegetarians as compared with the metabolism of non-vegetarians 



of like weight and height. Francis G. Benedict and Paul Roth. Journ. Biol. 

 Chem., 20, 231 (1915). 



Among the numerous more or less scientifically attested facts concerning 

 the influence of a vegetarian diet are statements relative to an observed 

 increase in endurance and the belief that vegetarians live upon a somewhat 

 lower metabolic plane than do flesh-eaters, who, it is asserted, are unduly 

 stimulated by the protein of food. In the research reported in this paper com- 

 parisons were made between a considerable number of vegetarians, 11 men 

 and 11 women, with non- vegetarians of the same sex, height, and weight. 

 From the data for male vegetarians, it appears that there was a slightly less 

 metabolism per kilogram of body-weight and per square meter of body-sur- 

 face than for the individuals living on a mixed diet, with whom they were com- 

 pared. This variation was so small, however, that it may be said that no 

 essentially striking difference was apparent between male vegetarians and 

 non-vegetarians. Certainly there was nothing to warrant the belief that male 

 vegetarians subsist upon a materially lower metabolic plane. With the female 



