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opportunity of meeting and conversing with medical men 

 from all parts of India. 



5. Correspondence. — A considerable amount of corre- 

 spondence has been involved in the investigation on biting 

 flies. Sets of apparatus and copies of the bulletin on 

 biting flies have been issued to the Directors of Agricul- 

 ture, Punjab and Bengal, the Assistant to the Chief 

 Commissioner, Baluchistan, the Assistant Political Agent, 

 Khelat, the Honourable the Agent to the Governor- General, 

 Quetta, His Britannic Majesty's Consul, Seistan, the 

 Honorary Secretary, Baluchistan Natural History Society, 

 the superintendents, civil veterinary departments, Ben- 

 gal and Eastern Bengal and Assam, the officer investi- 

 gating camel diseases, the officers of the Indian Medical 

 Service and Royal Army Medical Corps, and private in- 

 dividuals in all parts of India, and it is anticipated that 

 the material thus obtained will greatly assist the enquiry. 



Correspondence on matters connected with the working 

 out and identification of the collections, has been carried 

 on with experts in Europe and America and on various 

 scientific subjects with the bacteriological laboratory 

 at Parel, the Indian Museum, the Bombay Natural History 

 Society, etc., and with various private individuals. 



6. Conclusion. — The necessity of devoting a consider- 

 able amount of time to the illustrating and publication 

 work of the Institute naturally restricts, to some degree, 

 the work connected with pure entomology. During the 

 past year the illustrating w^ork had at times been parti- 

 cularly heavy. A further restriction is due to the fact 

 that no laboratory accommodation was originally provided 

 for this section, with the result that all work has to be 

 carried on in a single room which perforce serves the pur- 

 poses of office, laboratory, store-room, collecting room and 

 insectary. The very important work on life-histories of 

 insects in particular has suffered for lack of a suitable 

 place for carrying on breeding operations, and there 

 is no accommodation whatever for students. 



