48 MADRAS FISHERIES BULLETIN VOL. XV, 



I may usefully recall the fact that the member of the Cam- 

 bridge Zoological expedition to the Maldives under Professor 

 Stanley Gardiner, who was left on Minikoi, contracted malaria 

 and suffered so severely that he had to be invalided home. 

 In any scheme for the development of the island that 

 " Fisheries" may participate in, the possibility of adequately 

 combating" this scourge by means of the introduction and 

 breeding of larvicidal fUhes in the wells and water pools of 

 the island should be given careful attention and thorough 

 investigat'on. 



3rd November i 9 2i. JAMES HORNELL. 



