NUTRITION INVESTIGATIONS OF STORRS STATION. 9Q- 
THE NUTRITION INVESTIGATIONS OF THE 
STORRS EXPERIMENT STATION. 
BYs Wee OP AT WALLER. 
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Previous reports have explained that the Station has been 
engaged almost since its establishment in studies of the food 
and nutrition of man. That it began so early to make inquiries 
in this field is explained by the fact that the larger part of its 
more purely scientific work has been carried on at Wesleyan 
University and that the present writer, who was its director 
until September, 1902, had been much interested in the sub- 
ject, and investigations in this line had been carried out in his 
laboratory for a number of years previous to the foundation of 
the Station. The earlier nutrition work of the Station was 
conducted in cooperation with the U. S. Department of Labor 
and consisted largely of studies of dietaries. Later, an especial 
appropriation was made by Congress for the study of the food 
and nutrition of the people of the United States, the responsi- 
bility of the work being vested in the Secretary of Agriculture, 
who assigned it to the Office of Experiment Stations of that 
Department and placed it in the immediate charge of the writer, 
then Director of, the Station. The State legislature of 1895 
provided an especial appropriation of $1,800 per annum to the 
Station mainly for work in this same direction, although pro- 
vision was also made for study of the bacteria of milk. The 
Act of Congress providing appropriations for the Stations 
throughout the United States especially authorizes nutrition 
inquiries. It was therefore proper that a part of the fund re- 
ceived from the general government should be used for this 
purpose; and such procedure was the more appropriate for this 
Station because of gifts for the promotion of these investiga- 
tions from friends of such inquiry who were interested in Wes- 
leyan University, by whose generosity the work of the Station 
was greatly aided. -~When the Board of Trustees of the Con- 
necticut Agricultural College, who were also the governing 
