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* Paludism (Simla).
Parasitology (Cambridge).
* Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society (London).
Review of Applied Entomology (London).
Series A Agricultural.
Series B: Medical and Veterinary.
* Scientific Memoirs by Officers of the Medical and Sanitary Departments of the
Government of India (Calcutta).
* Yellow Fever Bureau Bulletin (Liverpool).
FOREIGN.
American Journal of Public Health (New York).
* American Journal of Tropical Diseases and Preventive Medicine (New Orleans).
American Society of Tropical Medicine. (Yearly volumes).
* Annales d'Hygiène et de Médecine Coloniales (Paris).
* Archiv für Schiffs- und Tropen-Hygiene and Beihefte (Leipzig).
* Archives de l'Institut Pasteur de Tunis.
Archives of Internal Medicine (Chicago).
Archives de Parasitologie (Paris).
* Archivos de Hygiene e Pathologica Exoticas (Lisbon).
Archivos do Instituto Bacteriologica Camara Pestana (Lisbon).
* Boletin da Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia (Brazil).
Bulletin de l'Office Internationale d'Hygiène Publique (Paris).
* Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique (Paris).
Bulletin de la Société Portugaise des Sciences naturelles (Lisbon).
Folia Microbiologica (Delft).
Journal of Experimental Medicine (New York).
* Medeelingen van den Burgerlijken-Geneeskundigen Dienst in Nederlandsch-Indie. *Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Brazil). (Rio de Janeiro, Manguinhos).
Pathologica (Genoa).
*Philippine Journal of Science. Section B. (Tropical Medicine).
* Revue de Médecine et d'Hygiene Tropicales (Paris).
Texas State Journal of Medicine.
United States War Department Bulletin (Washington).
Zeitschrift für Chemotherapie und Verwandte Gebiete. 1 Theil. Originale
(Leipzig).
Books--For the acquisition of current books the Library mainly depends on presentation or on the receipt of copies for review in the Bulletins. The medical publishers are applied to for copies of suitable books, and these books, after review. are placed in the Library. About 50 of the most recent books on tropical diseases have thus been acquired. As the reviews in the Bulletins become more widely known and quoted an increasing number of books will probably be received for review, and for a subsequent place in the Library.
A sum of £16 17s. 5d. has been expended during the last financial year on the purchase of books. Reference to this is made later in the report under the head of expenditure.
Donations and Exchanges of Duplicates.-The Bureau is indebted to Lieu- tonant-Colonel J. H. Tull Walsh, Mrs. Frederic Bagshawe, the late Surgeon- General Sir A. M. Branfoot, Lieutenant-Colonel W. J. Buchanan, I.M.S., Dr. A. G. Bagshawe, Dr. G. C. Low, and others, for donations of books and periodicals By these gifts the Bureau has become possessed of some rare works on tropical medicine which otherwise would have been unobtainable, and it is greatly to be hoped that the Library may continue to receive such valuable benefactions.
Exchanges of duplicates have been arranged with the London School of Tropi- cal Medicine, and some duplicates from the British Medical Association Library have been received in lieu of an annual subscription to the Tropical Diseases Bulletin.
Reprints. With the growth in the number of serials received in the Library the Bureau is becoming much less dependent on other medical libraries, so far as the journals on tropical medicine are concerned: but as non-tropical medical journals occasionally publish papers on tropical diseases the Libraries of the Royal College of Surgeons and Royal Society of Medicine are visited fortnightly, so that a system- atic watch may be kept on the contents of journals which are not received in the Bureau. The titles of papers thus found are noted and the authors are written to for reprints. In this way the reprints in the Library are steadily being added to. and since July, 1912, over 500 have been collected and filed.
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Reports-Steps have also been taken, by means of letters addressed to the various Medical and Sanitary Departments, to make the Library's collection of official Annual Medical and Sanitary Reports from the tropical colonies and from India more complete.
Expenditure. The expenditure on the Library during the last financial year (1st April, 1913 to 31st March, 1914) is summarized as follows:---
(a) Subscriptions to current serials
(b) Purchase of early volumes of serials to complete sets (c) Purchase of books
(d) Binding
£37 3 7
£47 16 3
£16 17 5
£11 14 0
£113 11 3
The items (a) and (b) are referred to in the earlier section of the report dealing with the acquisitions of serial publications.
With regard to item (c) the following notes are added: In order to obtain some, at least, of the more important earlier works the Sectional Editors were invited to suggest any books or monographs on their subjects which they thought the Bureau should possess, and the books thus recommended have been, so far as possible, purchased.
In addition to the books purchased on the recommendation of the Sectional Editors, some of the more important reference books and standard works have also been bought.
The following are some of the more important recent books that have been added to the Library
LAVERAN & MESNIL: Trypanosomes et Trypanosomiases, 2 edit. Paris. ROBERTS (Stewart R.): Pellagra. History, Distribution, Diagnosis, Prognosis,
Treatment, Etiology. London.
WOOD: A Treatise on Pellagra for the General Practitioner. New York and
London.
HERMS: Malaria: Cause and Control. New York.
BESSON Practical Bacteriology, Microbiology and Serum Therapy. London. HOARE: A System of Veterinary Medicine. By various writers. (Vol. I.)
London.
Gesammelte Werke von Robert Kocn (3 vols.). Leipzig.
V. PROWAZEK: Handbuch der Pathogenen Protozoen. Lief 1-5. Leipzig. CRALL & CLARAC: Traité Pratique de Pathologie Exotique (5 vols.). Paris. In Onore del Prof. Angelo CELLI nel 25o Anno Insegnamento. Turin. HAFFKINE (W. M.): Protective Inoculation against Cholera. London. MENSE: Handbuch der Tropenkrankheiten. 2 edit. (2 vols.). Leipzig. Medizinal-Berichte über die Deutschen Schutzgebiete für das Jahr, 1910-11.
Berlin.
GRAHAM-SMITH: Flies in Relation to Disease. Non-Bloodsucking Flies.
Cambridge. RODHAIN, PONS, VAN DEN BRANDEN, & BEQUAERT: Rapport sur les Travaux de la Mission Scientifique du Katanga (Octobre, 1910, à Septembre, 1912). Brussels.
HENSON Malaria: Etiology, Pathology, Diagnosis, Prophylaxis and Treat-
ment. London.
ROGERS Dysenteries: Their Differentiation and Treatment. London. WALL: The Poisonous Terrestrial Snakes of our British Indian Dominions (including Ceylon) and how to recognize them, with Symptoms of Snake Poisoning and Treatment. Bombay.
VEDDER: Beriberi. London.
PATTON: A Text Book of Medical Entomology. London, Madras and Calcutta. ZAMBACO PACHA: La Lèpre à travers les Siècles et les Contrées (Anthologie).
Paris. Binding.- -The binding is done by Messrs. Truscott & Company, Limited, con- tractors to His Majesty's Stationery Office.
Lacuna.-Efforts to complete some sets of the serial publications have been fruitless, owing to the earlier numbers being out of print and unprocurable from the publishers. In these cases the Bureau can now only hope to obtain the missing parts fhrough the secondhand booksellers or by presentation. Some of these lacune are noted below:-
Bulletin de la Société Médico-Chirurgicale de l'Indo-Chine, 1911, Vol. 2, Nos. 3, 6,
7, and 8, and Title-page and Index.