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For further statis- 

 tical study the results 

 for the heat produc- 

 tion per square meter 

 of surface have been 

 grouped in classes 

 covering a range of 

 25 Calories in the case 

 of men and 3 1 Calories 

 in the case of women. 

 The frequency distri- 

 bution of these classes 

 is shown in figures 7 

 and 8. 



The data corre- 

 sponding to those for 

 cattle recorded in 

 Table IV are con- 

 tained in Table VII. 

 As would have been 

 expected from 



Fig. 5. — Graph of the frequency distribution of the basal katabolism of 

 cattle per square meter of body surface lying 12 hours and standing 

 12 hours. 



the more direct method available in experiments on man, the variability 

 and the probable error are much lower than in the experiments on cattle. 



Table VII. — Daily basal katabolism of men and women per square meter of body surface 



Table VIII. — Corrected daily basal katabolism of men and women per square mete of 



body surface 



