The Burg Wartenstein Symposia have become rightly celebrated for achieving their original purpose: to be of service and interest to the anthropological profes sion as a whole and to contribute to related sciences. We are specially grateful to the Board of Directors of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research for the award of a symposium on Physical Anthropology and Nutritional Status. We had considered that such a subject was timely and that an inter-disciplinary approach would contribute useful knowledge in a most important area--particularly in the field of child health. This pUblication of the proceedings will show the degree of success of these aims. Mrs. Lita Osmundsen, Director of Research at the Wenner-Gren Foundation, not only steered us in the early stages but, during our delightful time at Burg Wartenstein, and subsequently, she has been that most charming of crosses--den mother and first class science administrator. We are deeply grateful to her. And grateful, too, for the organization and friendly warm spoiling by the Wenner-Gren staff in residence at Burg Wartenstein. Our nutritional status was high. Nothing was too much trouble for them and it was a wrench to leave and say goodbye to them. The Foundation has since supported our efforts towards this publication. Here we owe a very special debt of gratitide to the cooperation and friendly exper tise of Mr. Seymour Weingarten, Senior Editor of the Plenum Publishing Corporation, aided by Mr. John Matzka, Managing Editor of this Corporation.

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Definition Of The Problem.- Anthropometry As An Index Of Nutritional Status.- A New Apparatus For Stereometry: Moiré Contourograph.- Overnutrition, Overgrowth And Hormones (With Special Reference To The Infant Born Of The Diabetic Mother).- Maternal Leukocyte Metabolism In Fetal Malnutrition.- Interrelationships Between Body Size, Body Composition And Function.- From QUAC Stick To A Compositional Assessment Of Man's Nutritional Status.- Changes In Pigs Due To Undernutrition Before Birth, And For One, Two, And Three Years Afterwards, And The Effects Of Rehabilitation.- Effect Of Maternal Dietary Protein On Anthropometric And Behavioral Development Of The Offspring.- Some Statistical Considerations On The Use Of Anthropometry To Assess Nutritional Status.- Biological Reference Systems In The Assessment Of Nutritional Status.- Selection Of The Minimum Anthropometric Characteristics To Assess Nutritional Status.- Cross-Sectional Versus Longitudinal Studies.- Relative Values Of Longitudinal, Cross-Sectional And Mixed Data Collection In Community Studies.- The Relation Between Size At Birth And Preschool Clinical Severe Malnutrition.- Ecological Factors Relating To Child Growth And Nutritional Status.- Conference Participants.