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The report in regard to Dr. O'Connor's expedition to the Western Pacific has involved labour that was not anticipated. A large amount of material has had to be examined, and this fact accounts for his report not yet being forthcoming. It is, however, now complete and going to press, and I trust that I shall be in a position to forward a copy of it to the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund in the near future.
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Negotiations are now complete for Dr. John Anderson to proceed to Samoa, as foreshadowed in the last report, and he will probably sail some time in January.
The School has continued to attract to it an average number of students, there having been one hundred and seventy-five in attendance during the year which has just ended.
I am, &c.,
P. J. MICHELLI,
Secretary.
P.S.-In connexion with Professor Leiper's Report in regard to Helminthology
I am forwarding two pamphlets :-
SIR,
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Collected papers 1922, Nos. I to XV.”
"Collected papers 1922 (Part 2), Nos. XVI to XXV.”
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Enclosure 1 in No. 8.
REPORT OF ENTOMOLOGICAL Department for the half-YEAR ENDED
- 31ST OCTOBER, 1922.
London School of Tropical Medicine,
Endsleigh Gardens, N.W., 31st October, 1922.
I HAVE the honour to submit my report, for the half-year ending 31st October, 1922, on the Entomology Department of the School.
The Department has been worked by Lt.-Col. H. J. Walton and myself; and for about two months Dr. F. W. O'Connor also was attached for the completion of his Report on the Expedition to the Ellice Islands.
The usual summer courses in Medical Entomology and on snake venoms have been given and were attended in each instance by about sixty students.
A good deal of time has been devoted to the preparation of Dr. O'Connor's Report for the Press That Report is now with the printers for the purpose of an estimate of cost of printing 500 ceples. I
The attempt to obtain from malaria-infested mosquitoes an antigen for use in serological tests in man was resumed during the summer. In past summers we have fed Anopheles mosquitoes on Hospital cases of malaria; but such cases have been found too few and too uncertain quite aside from humane and prudential con- siderations for work of this sort on the large scale necessary for our object. This summer therefore we decided to employ Culer mosquitoes and bird-malaria, which we hoped to get in profusion in sparrows imported from India, where (at any rate, it was so in my time) practically all sparrows are infected.
By the extremely kind intermediation of Commander G. Hodgkinson, R.N., a cage of a hundred sparrows was brought from Bombay to the School free of all expense. Unfortunately, of eighty survivors of the batch only ten were found to be infected, and of these ten, seven died immediately after arrival, so that we were left with only three birds available for work--instead of the large number that we had hoped for.
With the three useful birds we had further disappointment; after we had got two or three small batches of Culex infected from them their infection, became dormant, and thereafter the best one of them died. By this time, however, we had passed on the infection to some canaries; and we still had hopes. However, our hopes were vain, for the only canary that took the infection died.
We are now left with two sparrows having a dormant infection, which possibly may be available again next summer, and four canaries that have been again inoculated from the sparrows having the dormant infection: This material, we hope, may live until next summer when Culex mosquitoes become active again.
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I have given these details not in any apologetic mood, but as an illustration of the difficulty of carrying on this kind of work in London-unless in defiance of humanity or in contempt of cost.
Some good additions have been made to the museum and to the teaching collec- tion, and we have to acknowledge the following select contributions:-
1.
From Asia (a) From Dr. Annandale, Director of the Zoological Survey of India: six species of fishes notorious for their venomous character.
(b) From the Bombay Pathological Laboratory (Dr. Fairley): fine specimens of five species of venomous snakes; also numerous specimens of insects of pathogenic significance.
(c) From Major F. Ware: specimens of parasitic maggots.
(d) From Dr. E. M. Barnes: a collection of Malayan Anopheles. (e) From Dr. S. H. Daukes: 2 good specimens of the Indian cobra.
From Mrs. E. M. Christie: a magnificent specimen of a Queen Termite in her royal chamber.
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(g) From Major T. L. Bomford: Indian Cobra having the tragic interest of a human death against it.
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(h) From Professor Mijajima: specimens of the Akamushi mite inter- mediary of Japanese river fever.
2. From Africa (a) From Dr. J. W. S. Macfie and Colonel Tull Walsh: specimens of the extraordinary larvæ of the Mansonia mosquito, attached
to the Pistia weeds from whose rootlets they obtain their air.
(b) From Dr. and Mrs. A. Connal: a further fine series of Chrysops silacea and dimidiate infected with Filaria loa.
(c) From Dr. J. G. Thomson: specimens of the brood cell of a dung- beetle.
3. From America-(a) From Major G. C. Dunham, U.S. Medical Corps: specimens of Anopheles quadrimaculatus and of the Chrysopsdiscatis that commonly transmits the infection of the newly recognized disease tularæmia..
(0) From Major W. F. M. Loughnan, R.A.M.C., and Mr. G. E. Bodkin: snakes from Tropical America.
To the Secretary,
SIR,
London School of Tropical Medicine.
Enclosure 2 in No. 8.
I have, &c.,
A. ALCOCK, Professor of Medical Zoology.
REPORT OF HELMINTHOLOGICAL Department for the HALF-YEAR-ENDED 31ST OCTOBER, 1922.
Seamen's Hospital Society, London School of Tropical Medicine. I HAVE the honour to submit a report on the work of my Department for the half-year ending 31st October, 1922.
Staff.
The Staff of the Department consisted of :- Director: RT. Leiper, M.D., D.Sc.
Teaching.
Attached: M. Khalil, M.D., D.P.H., D.T.M.,
G. Z. L. Le Bas, M.Sc., F.C.S.,
F. Philpot, M.Sc.
Wm. Nícoll, M.A., M.D., D.Sc.
Medical Section: G. M. Vevers, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.,
J. S. Anderson, M.A., B.Sc., M.D., D.T.M.
Agricultural Section: T. Goodey, D.Sc.
R. J. Ortlepp, M.A.
Bibliographical Section: Mrs. H. M. Williams,
F. E. Madge.
(a) The ordinary course of Medical Helminthology, extending for three weeks,
was given during the month of June.
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