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EARLY. PORTUGUESE DISCOVERIES IN AFRICA. 



they have displayed much activity and enterprise in tlie cause of 

 science and civilisation. This entitles them to a prominent place 

 in Africa, quite apart from the rig-hts hequeathed to them hy the 

 deeds of their navig-ators and warriors, which are looked upon 

 nowadav'i as onlv a brilliant romance. 



Luiz HE Camoexs. 

 the poet of the Portugue>e epic of Africa and India. 



Of those heroic times the rememi, 'ranee has been immor- 

 talised by the great poet lAiiz de Camoens in his Lusiad. 



Microbe of Hydrophobia. — I'rof. Hideyo Nogushi 



claims to have discovered tlie micrnbe of hydrophobia, and gives 

 a description thereof in the Bulletin of the Rockefeller Institute. 

 In this connection Prof. MetchnikofT, of the Pasteur Institute, 

 makes the following remarks: " Nog"iishi has made a discovery of 

 great importance. His note, hastily published as it was, is in some 

 respects brief and obscure, but the strict contrci that is exercised 

 at the Rockefeller Institute, as w^ell as the personality of Nogushi 

 himself, are sufficient safeguards that this is an authentic dis- 

 covery, and that it will mark an epcch in the history of bacteri- 

 ology. The culture of the hydrophobia protozoa may permit of 

 the preparation of a serum or vaccine of far higher activity than 

 the spinal preparations now employed for inoculation against 

 rabies, and probably the lengthy and painful treatment of twenty 

 injection^; will be much shortened." 



