TRAVEL AS A MEANS OF POST-GRADUATE 

 MEDICAL EDUCATION. 



For the second time I am on a tour around the world 

 — this time in an opposite direction, from East to West, 

 via India. I leave San Francisco on the steamer Sierra. 

 July 7, and if I am spared the disease-producing effects 

 of the tropical climate and not delayed by failing to 

 make timely connections, I expect to reach New York 

 on the Kronprinz Wilhelm, October 11. Three years 

 ago I girdled the globe via Siberia in three months 

 and twenty days. That trip was replete with informa- 

 tion of all sorts, general and professional, and the 

 pleasure of it was enhanced by the companionship of 

 my friends, Prof. D. R. Brower and Drs. Mastin and 

 Frank. 



I am very well aware of the fact that midsummer 

 is the wrong time to undertake a journey through India, 

 owing to the intensit}^ of the heat, but I expect to re- 

 ceive at least a partial recompense for the expected 

 sufferings incident to unfavorable climatic conditions 

 by avoiding crowded hotels, cars and steamers, which 

 so often detract from the pleasures and benefits of travel 

 during the winter season, when the tourists elbow their 

 way over this popular pathway around the world. This, 

 at least, was my experience in visiting the Holy Land 

 and Egypt during the summer months on a former oc- 

 casion. 



Beside, the duties of my college work are such as to 

 preclude all possibility of seeing India at the most de- 

 sirable time. My friends who had comtemplated mak- 



