ON THE ‘ METABOLIC BALANCE SHEET’ OF INDIVIDUAL TISSUES. 403 
The effect of hirwdin upon the blood and its gases. In regard to this 
there appear to be no specific effects on the gaseous content of the blood 
apart from those due to its stimulating the respiratory centres, and this 
is probably due to anemia of these centres caused by a passing dilator 
effect upon the splanchnic vessels, and is thus itself secondary. 
The apparatus for measuring the oxygen dissulved in Ringer’s solution 
has been improved and rendered more convenient in form; similar 
apparatus has given hopeful results in regard to the measurement 
of CO,. 
The Committee have suffered a serious loss during the year by the 
death of its senior member, Sir Michael Foster. 
The Committee would 
desire to place on record their sense of the loss of one who was mainly 
influential in their establishment. 
No balance remains in the hands of the Chairman, and the Committee, 
therefore ask to be reappointed with a further grant of 75/. ; in connection 
with such reappointment it might be desirable to enlarge the Committee 
by adding two new members specially cognisant with the subject. 
The Effect of Climate upon Health and Disease.—Second Keport’of the 
Committee, consisting of Sir T. Lauper Brunton (Chairman), 
Lieut.-Col. Stimpson and Mr. J. Barcrorr (Secretaries), Colonel 
D. Bruce, Dr. A. Bucuan, Dr. 8. G. CAMPBELL, Sir KENDAL 
Franks, Professor J. G. McKenpricx, Sir A. MircHe.i, Dr. 
C. F. K. Murray, Dr. C. Porter, Professor G. Sims WoopHeap, 
Sir A. E. Wricut, and the Heads of the Tropical Schools of 
Liverpool, London, and Edinburgh. 
In the following list of the co-opted members of this Committee the 
names of those who are not members of the British Association are 
indicated by an asterisk :— 
*Aldridge, Lieut.-Col. A. R., R.A.M.C., 
Simla, India. 
*Allbutt, Sir T. Clifford, K.C.B., F.R.8., 
Cambridge. 
*Anderson, Dr. Barcroft, East London. 
*Ashe, Dr., Kimberley. 
*Balfour, Prof. A., Khartoum. 
*Benedict, Prof., Middletown, Conn., 
U.S.A. é 
Bohr, Prof. C., Copenhagen. 
Branfoot, Surgeon-General A. M., C.1.E., 
I.M.S., India Office. 
*Bulloch, Dr. Wm., London. 
*Bulstrode, Dr. H. Timbrell, Local Govern- 
ment Board, 8.W. 
*Bumm, Prisident, Berlin. 
Charles, Sir R. Havelock, K.C.V.O., 
I.M.S., London. 
*Chittenden, Prof. R. H., New Haven, 
Conn., U.S.A. 
*Clarke, Dr., Bulawayo. 
*Clemow, Dr. F. G., Constantinople. 
*Cumming, Hamilton, Torquay. 
Currie, Dr. O. J., Pietermaritzburg. 
*Curtis, Dr., London. 
Cushny, Prof., F.R.S., London. 
*Dixon, Prof. W. E., Cambridge. 
*Douglas, Capt. H. E. M., V.C., D.S.0., 
India. 
*Dunbar, Sir Wm. C., Bart., C.B., Regis- 
trar-General, London. 
*Dunlop, Dr. J. C., Edinburgh. 
Dunstan, Prof. Wyndham, F.R.S., 
London. 
*Hllis, Sir H. M., K.C.B., K.H.P., Director- 
General, Naval Medical Service, 
London. 
*Evatt, Surgeon-General G. J. H., C.B., 
Camberley. 
*EHwald, Prof. A., Berlin. 
*Franklin, Surgeon-General Sir B 
K.C.1.E., London. 
Fraser, Sir Thos. R., ¥.R.S., Edinburgh. 
Gamgee, Prof. A., F.R.S., Montreux. 
Grabham, Dr. M. C., Madeira, 
Gregory, Dr. A. J., Cape Town. 
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