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I hope during the coming Summer to do some experiments on anthropoid apes. I feel that the experiments will be justi- -fied for the following reasons;-

1.In very resert years such peculiarly human discases as leprosy, syphilis,yellow fever atc which were for long thought net to infect animals have been conveyed to the higher spes. 2.Owing to the difficulty of keepiry them,■t least in temper- -ate and subtropical clinater arthropoid apes have been left out of many inoculation experiments on beriberi, for instanne the almost classical experiments of Funter and Koch.

3.A simple inoculation experiment does not necessarily sat- -isfy the specialised marasitism of the protozoa,for example the recently discovered organism of syphilis may not produce the disease when inoculated into the blood stream of a monk- -ey but does so without fail if rubbed into the abraded skin. I have read the book recently written by Braddon and also Fletcher's workon Beriberi and I have prepared the foll- -owing table which shows the pecaŭllar age and sex incidence on beriberi at the Public Mortuary here not only for the

last four months but for the twenty months before that, I am well aware of the small flacy in the table due to the

to errors of diagnoses and

fact that many of the diseases causing the deaths other than

those due to heriberi have a varying age and sex incidence.

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I can only state now that the table is highly representative

of the general community and is not vitiated by the inclusion

of adult cases of beriberi contracted in any institution.