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Report of Standing Committee on Experiments

The constitution of the Society makes it the duty of the Standing Committee on Experiments to "Recommend to the Society at its regular animal meeting problems for independent and cooperative investigation and submit a report upon investigations in progress," and also authorizes it to carry out projects of cooperation approved by the Society.

Circumstances rendered it impossible for the Committee to effect an organization prior to the annual meeting of 1909 and consequently no cooperative projects could be recommended at that time. At that meeting the Committee organized and entered at once upon the discharge of its duties.

At the 1909 meeting there were also referred to the Committee the suggestions regarding research work in animal nutrition contained in the papers of Dr. F. G. Benedict and Dr. C. F. Langworthy. Both these papers deal chiefly with problems of protein nutrition, including the minimum and optimum supply for various purposes and for different animals and the effects of periodic ingestion and of the ratio of non-nitrogenous to nitrogenous nutrients, while they likewise emphasize the importance of considering the ash content of rations and guarding against a deficiency or lack of balance in this respect in experiments upon protein nutrition.