
TOO STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
board of the Station, found themselves able to provide for car- 
rying out a larger share of the scientific work of the Station at 
Storrs, the nutrition work was left in the writer’s hands. It 
thus comes about that the present report of the Station, like 
previous ones, contains accounts of nutrition inquiries. 
What has been said makes it clear that the nutrition work of 
the Station is codperative, the principal associates being Wes- 
leyan University and the Department of Agriculture under 
whose general oversight and with whose special aid the in- 
quiries of the Station are conducted. The inquiries are of 
various kinds, chief among them being studies of the chemical 
composition, digestibility and nutritive values of food mate- 
rials, dietary studies and experiments with the respiration cal- 
orimeter. An illustration of one kind of investigation may be 
found in the articles in the present report on the analyses of 
flesh of poultry, and poultry as food. It should be said that of 
late comparatively few analyses of food materials have been 
made as part of these cooperative nutrition investigations, 
other than those required in the carrying out of digestion and 
metabolism experiments. There happens to be, however, a 
lack of information regarding the nutritive values of poultry 
used as food, and in view of the possibilities of poultry raising 
as a part of the agricultural industry of Connecticut it seemed 
desirable to learn more of this especial subject. Another illus- 
tration of the kinds of investigation conducted is found in the 
digestion experiments, the results of a large number of which 
were given in the preceding annual report of the Station. 
Numerous dietary studies have been reported in previous 
years, and a phase of the outcome of such studies in Connecti- 
cut and elsewhere is set forth in the article beyond, entitled 
Needs of the Body for Nourishment, and Dietary Standards. 
The inquiry of the most fundamental importance, however, is 
that which has been in operation for a number of years with 
the respiration calorimeter. = ee 
A description of this apparatus, its purpose and the method 
of its use, was given in the report of the Station for 1897. 
Under the title of ‘‘ The Conservation of Energy in the Living 
Organism ’”’ the article beyond summarizes the results obtained 
in the study of one of a large number of-questions by its use. 
A part of the data included in the above-mentiond article on 
