
STUDIES OF DIETARIES. 135 
weeks in August, there was a still further falling off in the 
amounts of protein and energy of the daily food, these amount- 
ing to but 85 grams and 2,280 calories respectively. 
The smaller consumption of food during the spring and 
summer dietaries may be due to various circumstances. ‘The 
subject himself attributes the decrease to two causes, warmer 
weather and his own decreased physical vigor. He was usually 
in poorer health in warm weather than in cold. Indeed he 
rarely passed a summer without succumbing, to a greater or 
less extent, to his disease. It seems probable that these two 
circumstances, and especially the decreased physical vigor, 
were the most important causes leading to a reduction in the 
amount of food consumed. A most fortunate improvement in 
his health since these studies were made, so marked indeed as 
to permit tolerably active occupation, implies that the reduc- 
tion in the amounts of food could hardly have been injurious. 
It would be wrong to omit an expression of* appreciation of 
the spirit and the labor which have resulted in these valuable 
observations. Their author is Mr. Herbert Scholfield, who 
hesitated to permit the use of his name in the previous report, 
but now kindly consents. 
OTHER STUDIES. 
Two other studies were made by this same observer; one the 
dietary of a farmer’s family (No. 203), the other (No. 224) 
that of two ladies, relatives of the observer, who were spending 
a short time with him. ‘The dietary study of a private board- 
‘ing house in Middletown, Conn., was conducted by Mr. D. W. 
Colby, the Secretary of the Station. The description of these 
‘three studies is given in connection with the statistics and 
tables on pages 140 and 144. 
