OUTSTANDING WORK AND WORKERS 97 



E. G. Conklin's Heredity and Environment in the De- 

 velopment oj Men (fifth edition, 1922). 



Latin America 



In these countries, as well as in the Scandinavian na- 

 tions, Australia, and New Zealand, geographical influence 

 is immediately apparent. Great areas, but slightly popu- 

 lated, with practically all pioneer work still to be done, 

 such as one finds in Mexico, Central America, Brazil, 

 Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, Co- 

 lumbia, Venezuela, and Ecuador, contain so much un- 

 known, interesting, and valuable material, that the few 

 scientific expeditions sent to those regions have been able 

 to present but an infinitesimal glimpse of what may yet 

 be discovered. 



As the tropics and the semitropics have, for the most 

 part, a luxuriant flora and fauna, with an endless variety 

 of types and forms, undoubtedly many intermediate hosts 

 of parasites at present unknown, are to be sought here, 

 which, in turn, are likely to throw light on many unsolved 

 present-day health problems. 



Then, too, in a country where all men must do pioneer 

 work of some nature, the first consideration is that of earn- 

 ing one's daily bread, and if any time remains, then, and 

 only then, is such time applied toward seeking relief from 

 immediate suffering ; for, in all new countries, the medical 

 man is the scientist. Specialization cannot come until later. 



