FOOTNOTES:

[5] W. O. Atwater and F. G. Benedict: A respiration calorimeter with appliances for the direct determination of oxygen. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 42, p. 91. (1905.)

Francis G. Benedict: The influence of inanition on metabolism. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 77, p. 451. (1907.)

[6] W. O. Atwater and F. G. Benedict: A respiration calorimeter with appliances for the direct determination of oxygen. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 42, p. 114. (1905.)

[7] W. O. Atwater and F. G. Benedict: A respiration calorimeter with appliances for the direct determination of oxygen. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 42, p. 158. (1905.)

[8] Armsby: U. S. Dept. of Agr., Bureau of Animal Industry Bull. 51, p. 34. (1903.)

[9] Benedict and Snell: Eine neue Methode um Körpertemperaturen zu messen. Archiv f. d. ges. Physiologie, Bd. 88, pp. 492-500. (1901.)

W. O. Atwater and F. G. Benedict: A respiration calorimeter with appliances for the direct determination of oxygen. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 42, p. 156. (1905.)

[10] Rosa: U. S. Dept. of Agric., Office of Experiment Stations Bul. 63, p. 25.

[11] Smith: Heat of evaporation of water. Physical Review, vol. 25, p. 145. (1907.)

[12] Philosophical Transactions, vol. 199, A, p. 149. (1902.)

[13] This is in agreement with the value 579.6 calories found by F. Henning, Ann. d. Physik, vol. 21, p. 849. (1906.)

[14] Pembrey: Schäfer's Text-book of Physiology, vol. 1, p. 838. (1898.)

[15] Benedict and Snell: Körpertemperatur Schwankungen mit besonderer Rücksicht auf den Einfluss, welchen die Umkehrung der täglichen Lebensgewöhnheit beim Menschen ausübt. Archiv f. d. ges. Physiologie, Bd. 90. p. 33. (1902.)

Benedict: Studies in body-temperature: I. The influence of the inversion of the daily routine: the temperature of night-workers. American Journal of Physiology, vol. 11, p. 145. (1904.)

[16] W. O. Atwater and E. B. Rosa: Description of a new respiration calorimeter and experiments on the conservation of energy in the human body. U. S. Dept. of Agr., Office of Experiment Stations Bul. 63. (1899.)

[17] Specific heat of water at average temperature of the water in the heat-absorbing system referred to the specific heat of water at 20° C.

[18] W. O. Atwater and F. G. Benedict: A respiration calorimeter with appliances for the direct determination of oxygen. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 42, p. 18. (1905.)

[19] For a description of the apparatus and the method of filling see W. O. Atwater and F. G. Benedict: A respiration calorimeter with appliances for the direct determination of oxygen. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 43, p. 27. (1905.)

[20] W. O. Atwater and F. G. Benedict: A respiration calorimeter with appliances for the direct determination of oxygen. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 42, p. 56. (1905.)

[21] W. O. Atwater and F. G. Benedict: A respiration calorimeter with appliances for the direct determination of oxygen. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 42, p. 20. (1905.)

[22] Thorne M. Carpenter and Francis G. Benedict: Mercurial poisoning of men in a respiration chamber. American Journal of Physiology, vol. 24, p. 187. (1909.)

[23] Francis G. Benedict: A method of calibrating gas-meters. Physical Review, vol. 22, p. 294. (1906.)

[24] Atwater and Benedict: Loc. cit., p. 38.

[25] Atwater and Benedict: Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 42, p. 77.

[26] In the use of logarithms space is saved by not employing characteristics.

[27] Francis G. Benedict: An apparatus for studying the respiratory exchange. American Journal of Physiology, vol. 24, p. 368. (1909.)

[28] Squibb: Journal of American Chemical Society, vol. 19, p. 111. (1897.)

[29] Squibb: Ephemeris, 1884 to 1885, part 2, pp. 562-577.

[30] Morley: Journal of American Chemical Society, vol. 26, p. 1185. (1904.)

[31] W. P. Lombard: A method of recording changes in body-weight which occur within short intervals of time. The Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 47, p. 1790. (1906.)

[32] Atwater and Benedict: Loc. cit., p. 21.