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Sir HUBERT W. BOYCE. Mosquito or Man ? The Conquest of 

 the Tropical World. - - Sec. Ed. London, Murray, 1910. 

 Pp. xvi -[-267, with 50 illustrations. 



The first edition of this book was published in October 1909, 

 the second in February 1910. 



The subtitle of this work, " The Conquest of the Tropical 

 World," is amply justified by the paramount importance of logical 

 discoveries and problems here dealt with. The volume furnishes 

 a survey of the wonderful work done since the discovery of the i 

 association between the mosquito and the propagation of malaria, 

 yellow fever, and sleeping sickness, and provides a guide to the 

 salutary measures which have been and may be adopted in various 

 localities. It is hardly necessary to add that the book carries the 

 highest authority, as coming from the Dean of the Liverpool School 

 of Tropical Medecine. 



The author has endeavoured in this volume to epitomise the 

 tropical medical movement, which, initiated in Great Britain by 

 the sympathetic encouragement of the then Secretary of State for 

 the Colonies, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain and energetically supported 

 by the liberality of. the late Sir Alfred Jones, and subsidised by 

 merchants interested in the health-progress of tropical countries, 

 has now spread all over the civilised world. From whatever 

 standpoint the movement is regarded, the reader cannot fail to be 

 impressed with the immense success which has been obtained. 



" The tropical world", are the concluding words of the author's 

 preface, " is unfolding once again to the pioneers of commerce, who 

 now do not dread the unseen hand of death as did of old the 

 Spanish Conquistadores of Columbus and Cortes. The British 

 public has and must always have a paramount interest in this 

 practical conquest, which is destined to add a vast slice of the 

 globe, of undreamt-of productiveness, to their dominions and acti- 

 vities, and as a contribution to the history of the conquest this 

 small volume is launched by one who has been privileged to take 

 a humble part in the movement and in not a few of its successful 

 compaigns." 



From Chapt. VIII, a summary of the antimarial compaigns, the 

 following general statements may be quoted: 



" In his ' Researches on Malaria ' Ross very truly remarks that 

 malarial fever is important not only because of the misery which 

 it inflicts upon mankind, but because of the serious opposition which 

 it has always given to the ' march of civilisation in the tropics. 



