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Institute of Medicine at Hamburg, where a premature death awaited 

 him. Parasitology mourns his loss. 



The United States, too, having become a colonial power by the 

 conquest of Porto Rico and the Philippines, have established at 

 Washington, as a dependence of the Marine-Hospital Service, a 

 division of medical zoology, of which Dr. Ch. Wardell Stiles is the 

 eminent chief. His past will answer for his future. Under his 

 zealous leadership the new^ division can not fail to become one of the 

 most active and prolific centers of scientific research. 



Such examples might well be followed by all countries that have 

 intertropical colonies. It is, indeed, not sufficient to note the progress 

 of one's neighbor ; there should also be assigned to scientific research 

 the sums requisite for it. Let us hope that the countries that have 

 hitherto shown themselves inert or too parsimonious may soon 

 comprehend that it is due to their honor and to their scientific repu- 

 tation to establish laboratories of the same kind, or at least to 

 endow with a greater liberality those which already exist and which 

 do not lack the will to do good work. 



Whatever may happen, it is clear that medical zoology is only at 

 the beginning of its career. Numerous important problems present 

 themselves that demand an immediate solution and the penetra- 

 tion of civilized nations into regions hitherto unexplored or insuffi- 

 ciently known Avill bring forward a great many others to which 

 parasitology will furnish a solution. After the remarkable success 

 which bacteriology has had we greet with confidence the dawn of the 

 day when medical zoology will obtain its highest develoi:)ment. 



