426 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



//. Ua'pcrimental Researches. — The following experimenters have 

 undertaken to be responsible for such researches .as may seem expedient 

 in the subjects affixed to their names : — 



Prof. Kronecker, Hallerianum, Berne, 



Switzerland .... Lcwercd Pressure. 

 Dr. Leonard Hill, London , . Raised Pressure. 

 Dr. Pembrey, London . . . Temperature. 

 Prof. Bolir, Copenhagen . . . | ^ . , TJewiration 

 Prof. Zuntz, Berlin . . . | ^^^^^^^^'' J-^espttauon. 



Dr. J. Barcroft, Cambridge . . Internal Respiration. 

 Prof. Gamgee, F.R.S., Montreux . Light. 

 Prof. Woeikoff, St. Petersburg . "I m ^ ■ in j-j- 

 Prof. T. Hann, Vienna . . ^\ Electrical Condihms. 



W. B. Hardy, F.R.S. . . . Radio-activity. 

 Prof. Benedict, Middletown, Conn.,\ 



US.A. . 

 Prof. Chittenden, Yale University, 



New Haven, Conn., U.S.A. . i- Diet iv, different Climates. 

 Dr. Liversidge, Sydney . . 

 Dr. Porter, Johannesburg , 

 Prof. Pawlow, St. Petersburg . ./ 



///. Procedure. — The Committee suggest that this should be carried 

 on in three ways : — 



{a) The preparation of a bibliography, and, if possible, the making 

 of a collection of the existing monographs and papers dealing v;ith the 

 relationship of climate to health and disease. 



{h) By the preparation of a list of suggestions as to the chief points to 

 be dealt with in local or district monographs on the relation of climate 

 to health and disease. 



(c) To consider the best means of discussing and supplementing exist- 

 ing data as to the relation of the wider geographical distribution of 

 climates and of diseases. 



The Committee are confident of the great importance of carrying on 

 this work, and in view of the inquiries which they have made are ready to 

 proceed with it at once. 



Obviously the work is very great, and it would be useless to attempt 

 to carry it out on a restricted scale. The Committee ask for a grant of 

 100^. for the ensuing year and for power to confer with other societies or 

 Governmental departments, with the object of obtaining the funds neces- 

 sary for its work over a course of years. 



The ' Metabolic Balance Sheet ' of the Individual Tissues. — Beport of 

 the Committee, consisting of Professor F. Gotch (Chairman), Mr. J. 

 Baecroft (Secretary), Sir Michael Foster, and Professor E. H. 

 Starling. (Drawn up hy Dr. F. G. Hopkins and the Secretary.) 



During this year 1905-6 the work carried on under the auspices of the 

 Committee has concerned itself with the investigation of three organs — 

 striated muscle, the heart, and the kidney. In addition, preliminary 

 investigations have been made into the amount of blood flowing through 

 others, such as the intestines and the liver. 



I. Skeletal muscle has been studied in the frog by W. M. Fletcher and 

 F. (t. Hopkins. 



This research was undertaken primarily with the intention of further 



