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Eailliet, did most of his work here. Only 

 recently lie has retired and his former col- 

 league, Professor A. Henry has taken his 

 place. The investigations carried on here are 

 naturally with the parasites of domestic ani- 

 mals; but comparative helminthology is a 

 subject of great importance since it is con- 

 tinually illuminating many of the puzzling 

 problems in human parasitology. 



Opportunity was ailorded me while in Paris 

 to attend meetings of two scientific societies, 

 the Biological Society and the Academy of 

 Sciences, where many current investigations 

 in medical zoology are reported. 



Outside of Paris are many Preneh institu- 

 tions that count among their instructors men 

 who are interested in some phase of medical 

 zoology. Most of the universities, however, 

 have only partially recovered from the war. 

 At Amiens the Bureau of Hygiene occupies 

 only two small rooms in the City Hall and ig 

 •devoted principally to water analysis. The 

 hospital is in poor condition and certain of 

 the professors in the medical school must sup- 

 plement their salaries by the income derived 

 from drug stores. The school of medicine at 

 Lille was stripped by the Germans of nearly 

 everything and must be built up again almost 

 from the beginning. The department of med- 

 ical zoology under the direction of Professor 

 P. Verdun and Dr. P. Desoil is gradually re- 

 covering and a small but good collection is 

 being formed. 



The University of Eennes was not in the 

 war zone and is suffering only from loss of 

 men and lack of funds. Professor L. Bordas 

 was at work here on entomology. The univer- 

 sities at Toulouse and Bordeaux were closed 

 when I visited them. 



The French coast is dotted with biological 

 stations where men from France and other 

 countries have been accustomed to gather dur- 

 ing the summer. The Russian Zoological Sta- 

 tion is situated at Villefranche-sur-Mer near 

 ]Srice. Here before the war there were usually 

 about thirty investigators during the summer. 

 ^Now the station is occupied by only one man. 

 Dr. G. Tregouboff, a protozoologist. 



The oceanographic museum of Monaco built 



and maintained by the Prince of Monaco, who 

 has for many years been interested in oceano- 

 graphic research, appears to be very little af- 

 fected by the war. Here I found Drs. L. Sir- 

 vent, G. Dahl and M. Oxner at work on the 

 various phases of oceanography, parasitic or- 

 ganisms being only incidentally studied. 



The zoological station at Cette which nor- 

 mally accommodates about thirty investigators 

 is being used by only one man, a protozoolo- 

 gist, Dr. J. L. Lichtenstein. The biological 

 station at Arcachon near Bordeaux, formerly 

 was used in the summer by sixteen or more in- 

 vestigators and published the results of their 

 researches. At present it is deserted except 

 for the director. Professor A. Jolyet. 



Much better conditions were encountered at 

 Roscoff on the northern coast of France. I 

 found about fifty men at work here under the 

 leadership of Professor Y. Delage. These in- 

 vestigators came from many cities and coun- 

 tries. Paris, Montpellier, Strassbourg, Buca- 

 rest, Bordeaux, Rennes, Utrecht, etc., were 

 represented. Nevertheless the station is not 

 so fiourishing as before the war. 



The Congress of the Royal Institute of Pub- 

 lic Health which was held at Brussels on May 

 20 to May 24 was successful in every way. 

 Large numbers of members and visitors at- 

 tended, coming especially from France, Bel- 

 gium, England and the United States. King 

 Albert honored the congress by his presence at 

 the inaugural meeting and Queen Elizabeth 

 entertained the ladies of the congress at her 

 home at Laaken. Sections were held at which 

 papers were read and discussed on state medi- 

 cine, naval, military, tropical and colonial 

 medicine, municipal hygiene, industrial hy- 

 giene, bacteriology, chemistry, and hygiene 

 and women's work. The Harben Lectures were 

 delivered in English by Professor Maurice 

 Nicolle, who spoke on antigens and anti-bod- 

 ies, and the Harben Gold Medal was presented 

 to General Gorgas at the final banquet given 

 in the Taverne Royale on May 24. Excursions 

 were arranged to the Belgium Front and to 

 institutions of public health interest in the 

 neighborhood of Brussels. 



The School of Tropical Medicine in Brus- 



