ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF FINANCIAL AID IN MEETING THE EXPENSE OF THE
EXPERIMENTS HEREIN DESCRIBED
The writer has been most generously aided by substantial grants from the
Bache Fund of the National Academy of Sciences, and from the Carnegie
Institution of Washington; also by large donations from Mr. Horace
Fletcher of Venice, and from Mr. John H. Patterson of Dayton, Ohio. In
addition, the War Department of the United States met in large measure
the expense of maintaining at New Haven the Detachment of Volunteers from
the Hospital Corps of the United States Army, detailed here through the
courtesy of Surgeon-General Robert Maitland O’Reilly.