The nutrition of Nigerian children, with particular reference to their energy requirements

this notice will know from their own experience.In the international sphere he was, from 1930, intimately connected with the Health Organization of the League of Nations.He was Chairman of the International Conferences for the Standardization of Vitamins in 1931 and 1934 and of the International Technical Commission sponsored by the League.With Professor E. V. McCollum, Mellanby represented nutritional experts on the Medical Committee of the League of Nations which was responsible for the report that led to 'the marriage of nutrition with agriculture'.He was for many years Chairman of the Accessory Food Factors Committee of the Medical Research Council, and he ensured that the importance of nutrition was recognized and that its principles were put into practice in the feeding of civilians and of service personnel, especially during the second world war.He was also effective in extending work on applied nutrition to British colonial territories and to other overseas countries.But for his death he would have presided over an international conference on protein malnutrition recently held in Princeton.As will be seen from Volume I , page I (1944), of the Proceedings of The Nutrition Society, he was one of eleven signatories to the document which led to the founding of The Nutrition Society.