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/. E. Hess. — "We have a legislative committee, and I move 

 that they be instructed to see what steps can be taken to have 

 the gfame law so modified as to offer quails absolute protection 

 for three years and prairie chickens for five years." The motion 

 was carried. 



F. C. Baker. — Moved, "That a committee be appointed to 

 look into the matter of permits for collecting birds and their 

 nests and eggs, and to ascertain if a law is feasible for the 

 absolute prohibition for a period of years of the collection of 

 birds and eggs by all, excepting by accredited scientific in- 

 stitutions; or if this prohibition be not desirable, that efforts 

 be made to secure the substitution of the Illinois State Academy 

 of Science as the issuing agent for the permits, in place of the 

 existing agent." 



President Forbes appointed the following committee: F. C. 

 Baker, Isaac E. Hess and Fred L. Charles. 



P. B. Hawk presented a paper of which the following is an 

 abstract : 



FURTHER STUDIES ON THE INFLUENCE OF COPIOUS 

 WATER DRINKING WITH MEALS. 



The subjects of these experiments were young men who were 

 placed on a uniform diet, and all urine and feces were collected in 

 twenty-four hour periods and analyzed. Each experiment con- 

 sisted of three parts, a preliminary period of six days during 

 which time the subjects were brought into "nitrogen equili- 

 brium." During this period 900 cc. of water was daily ingested, 

 300 cc. of this amount being taken with meals. The second 

 period or "iv>ater period" was five days in length and during 

 each of these 1000 cc. of water above that already mentioned 

 was taken at each meal. The third period was from three to 

 eight days in length and during this period the amount of 

 water ingested was the same per day as in the preliminary 

 period. The daily drinking of three liters of water with meals, 

 for a period of five days by these three normal young men, wlio 



