OUTSTANDING WORK AND WORKERS 93 



tion of the Biological Board of Canada and the establish- 

 ment of marine laboratories, as well as the research fos- 

 tered, first in marine, and later in fresh-water biology. 



Canadians whose work is stressed are : 



1. Frederick G. Banting, and (2) John J. R. MacLeod 

 for their discovery of insulin, which brought them the 

 Nobel Prize for medicine in 1923 ; 



3. R. Ruggles Gates, who successfully demonstrated 

 the correlation between chromosome peculiarities and 

 specific characters ; and 



4. Charles Edward Saunders, who worked so success- 

 fully in developing Marquis wheat, which has proved of 

 tremendous economic value to Canada. 



The United States of America 



Here the most noteworthy movements mentioned were : 

 1. The establishment of an International Health 

 Board, which draws its funds exclusively from the Rocke- 

 feller Foundation, and which contributed, in the eleven- 

 year period of 1913-1923, three and a quarter million dol- 

 lars to international health work, and had, in 1924, four- 

 teen expert fieldworkers in South and Central America. 

 It also supports on a fellowship basis, ten South and Cen- 

 tral American students of public health in universities 

 and schools of public health in the United States. The 

 most sensational result of this cooperative work is ^'the 

 now almost complete stamping out of yellow fever in the 

 western hemisphere. It is only a matter of further close 



