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A certain amount of progress may be reported in regard to the purely systematic portion, but much work done has been rendered futile, and many delays have resulted from the intervention of circumstances beyond my present control.
Enclosure 4 in No. 12.
I am, &c.,
R. T. LEIPER.
LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE. Report of thE HELMINTHOLOGIST for the Half-Year ENDING 31st OCTOBER, 1917. SIR,
I HAVE little of interest to report regarding the activities of my Depart-
f-year. ment at the London School of Tropical Medicine during the past half-
The usual instruction in helminthology was given in the latter weeks of the summer session, as part of the ordinary School course.
The routine work of the Department was maintained throughout the period largely without skilled assistance or menial help. During the previous session the whole-time assistant had transferred to another department, in which there are facilities for clinical practice, and the small laboratory attendant had left for more remunerative employment elsewhere. Although ample funds are hypothe- cated annually for the service of the Department, the operation of a low flat rate a substitute for of wages throughout the School made it impossible to secure several months.
a small fund for research In the spring the Committee had allocated me bearing on certain helminthic infections of economic importance in relation to food supply. I found it impracticable to take up these problems with prospect of success.
I turn with some satisfaction to the work done in connexion with the equipment of the new Museum, which is being carried out under the auspices of the Dean, and to which reference was made in my previous report. The section under my individual control comprises :-
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(a) A series of the helminths of man, in which is a large number of the
original specimens on which the species are based.
(b) A series illustrating the life-cycles of those helminths of pathogenic
importance to man.
(c) A series of the principal pathological lesions caused in man by
helminth parasites.
(d) A series illustrating the chief pathological lesions, due to helminths,
occurring in domestic pets and food animals.
(e) A series of shells of freshwater snails known to transmit trematode
infections, and samples of forms allied thereto.
I am happy to be able to report that the mounting and preparing of the materials for the above series is practically completed. The accumulations of material in the Helminthological Department for a period of thirteen years have been over- hauled, and considered in the light of museum exhibits. In the result there awaits for the future student of the School a collection in many respect unique, and in each division of high educative value. I have, further, in view two new series illustrating the more systematic side of the zoclogical group, and one to include leeches and pseudo-helminths," but these must be compiled as the requisite material becomes available.
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During the period under review I have published two short papers :-
(a)
"Two Helminthological Notes," Transactions of the Society of Tropical
Medicine.
(b) "Thelaziasis in Man." Journal of Ophthalmology.
Of these the former deals with (1) the anatomy of the Bilharzia miracidia, and illustrates a peculiar skeletal thickening of the cuticle. and (2) a simple method of The latter paper is merely a résumé mounting ova, using Langeron's medium.
of cases of "ocular filariasis," and points out that those recently described are perhaps due to Thelazia callipada, a common parasite in the eye of dogs.
During the last few weeks I have had an opportunity of examining certain ankylostome parasites from the dog in West Africa, and of determining points in which they can be differentiated from allied forms in the dog in India and
I have, &c.,
elsewhere.
1st November, 1917.
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No. 13.
PROFESSOR G. H. F. NUTTALL to THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH FUND.
SIRS,
(Received 28th November, 1917.)
Quick Laboratory, New Museums, Cambridge,
27th November, 1917.
I HEREWITH submit my Annual Report for the academic year (completed last month) in the form in which it is submitted to the University authorities in confunction with the audited accounts of the Laboratory. If you will permit me, it would be most convenient to submit the report in this form in future, since it will prevent some overlapping that is liable to give rise to omissions.
The grant has been expended in the payment of stipends to Mr. C. Warburton (Demonstrator in Medical Entomology, £50) and Dr. D. Keilin (Research Student and pro tem. Acting Assistant, £100): I have raised the latter's stipend from the Laboratory by £40, to enable him to live and work on in the excellent way he has been doing.
I shall be very grateful if the Advisory Committee can see its way to allow the Quick Laboratory a grant of £190 for the ensuing year, so that we may keep on with the work in which we are engaged.
Your obedient servant,
Enclosure in No. 13.
G. H. F. NUTTALL.
REPORT BY PROFESSOR G. H. F. NUTTALL, F.R.S., ON THE WORK OF THE QUICK LABORATORY, CAMBRIDGE.
THE subjoined list* of publications affords a measure of some of the work that has been conducted in the Laboratory during the academic year, other papers being in preparation.
In the absence of Captain E. Hindle, R.E., on military service, D. Keilin (Sc.D., Paris) has been appointed Assistant to the Quick Professor. Otherwise there have been no changes in the staff beyond those mentioned in last year's report. The Laboratory has been appealed to frequently on parasitological subjects and has aided in the work of malaria diagnosis in conjunction with military hospitals outside of Cambridge.
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No. 14.
G. H. F. NUTTALL..
THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
SIR,
(Received 5th December, 1917.)
The Incorporated Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,
B10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, 3rd December, 1917. HAVE the honour to enclose, for the information of the Tropical Diseases Advisory Committee, the following reports of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine for the year ending 31st October, 1917, on the work done in connexion with the Government grant
1. Report of the Sir Alfred Jones Professor of Tropical Medicine.
(Professor J. W. W. Stephens.)
2. Report of the Dutton Professor of Entomology. (Professor Robert
Newstead.)
3. Report of the Walter Myers Professor of Parasitology. (Professor
Warrington Yorke.)
*Not printed.
I am, &c.,
SYDNEY EVANS.