INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRYYol. 23, No. 12 experiments will be necessary to determine under what conditions the use of ultra-violet glass in winter in New York or Chicago will be of value in protecting against rickets.Summary 1-This study shows that when albino rats are exposed to Chicago sunshine at the street level during the month of February and behind commercial ultra-violet glass or ordinary glass, they are not protected against rickets; whereas similar rats under similar conditions during a March-April period are fully protected against rickets when behind the ultra-violet glass, but not protected when behind ordinary glass.2-Spectrophotographs comparing the transmitting efficiency of the ultra-violet glasses used in the previously mentioned rat experiments, with a variety of other samples of commercial ultra-violet glass show that in the region 3000 to 3100 Á. the transmission is between about 30 per cent for the poorest to about 52 per cent for the best of the glasses which were used; and that, therefore, there are among these glasses some which are average and representative of commercial ultra-violet glass.3-These results indicate that there is a critical difference between the rickets-preventing efficiency of February sunshine and March-April sunshine behind commercial ultraviolet glass in Chicago at street level.t Literature Cited(1) Blunt and Cowan, "Ultra-Violet Light and Vitamin D in Nutrition,"