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sels exists for the purpose of training both 

 men and women for work in the Belgian col- 

 onies. Among these are sanitary inspectors, 

 missionaries, both Roman Catholic and Prot- 

 estant, negroes for practical work in the vil- 

 lages and female nurses as assistants for the 

 physicians at the larger stations. The rooms 

 of the chateau in which the school is located 

 have been successfully modified into labora- 

 tories and class rooms. Dr. Broden has charge 

 and is assisted by men who are connected with 

 neighboring institutions. Dr. Broden teaches 

 protozoology; tropical pathology is taught by 

 Professor C. Firket, of Liege; bacteriology 

 and helminthology by Professor L. Jacque, of 

 the University of Brussels, and medical ento- 

 mology by Professor G. Severin, of the Mu- 

 seum of Natural History. Three courses of 

 fifteen weeks each are given each year because 

 of the great demand for trained helpers in the 

 tropics. 



!N"o one who visits Brussels should fail to 

 call on Dr. J. Bordet at the University of 

 Brussels and on Drs. Severin and Ball who 

 are engaged in entomological research at the 

 Eoyal Museum of Natural History. Dr. L. 

 Gedoelst, a prominent parasitologist, is located 

 at the School of Veterinary Medicine here. 

 Trips to Liege, Louvain, Bruges and Ghent 

 may be arranged very easily from Brussels. 



The parasitologists of Switzerland are scat- 

 tered among the universities. At Basel is lo- 

 cated Professor F. Zschokke who has published 

 investigations on both protozoa and parasitic 

 worms. Associated with him is Dr. Menzul 

 who is a student of the nematodes. At Neu- 

 chatel. Professor O. Fuhrmann has charge of 

 the department of zoology, and carries on re- 

 searches in animal parasitology. The Univer- 

 sity of Lausanne possesses an Institute of Hy- 

 giene and Parasitology of which Professor A. 

 Galli-Valerio has charge. This institute has 

 beautiful laboratories and equipment and an 

 excellent collection but at present its funds 

 are so low that the director is without com- 

 petent assistants; the result is that a large 

 part of his time is devoted to taking care of 

 the laboratoiy. At Geneva there is a similar 

 institute with Professor E. Andre in charge. 



One of the few scientists who are not officially 

 connected with some educational or govern- 

 mental institution is Dr. E. Penard, of Geneva, 

 who has been for many years one of the fore- 

 most students of the protozoa. Dr. Penard 

 now has completed the manuscript of two 

 monographs on eiliates and flagellates respec- 

 tively but has no funds for their publication. 



Successful visits were made to two of the 

 universities in Italy. In Turin I found Pro- 

 fessor E. Perroncito at the Medical Veterinary 

 School. Dr. Perroncito was one of the first 

 to interest himself in animal parasites. He 

 is at present attempting to increase the food 

 supply in Italy by popularizing bee-keeping. 

 Professor 0. Parona, another of the older 

 parasitologists was absent, from his laboratory 

 in Genoa. Professor B. Grassi, of Rome, is 

 hard at work on a campaign for the eradica- 

 tion of malaria in the neighboring city of 

 Fiumicino. Dr. Grassi has never lost interest 

 in this subject since he first proved that cer- 

 tain mosquitoes transmit the malaria organ- 

 ism from man to man. Other students of ani- 

 mal parasites in Rome are Professor A. 

 Splendore, who has just published an account 

 of the parasites of the field mouse, and Pro- 

 fessor G. Alessandrini, who is located at the 

 zootechnical institute. As in France, Belgium 

 and Switzerland the salaries of scientists in 

 Italy have not kept pace with the cost of liv- 

 ing and the funds available for carrying on 

 and publishing investigations are woefully in- 

 adequate. 



London is perhaps the greatest center of 

 medical education and research in the world. 

 Here are located a flourishing school of trop- 

 ical medicine, army and navy medical schools, 

 various other government institutions that 

 support medical research, private research 

 foundations, medical schools connected with 

 a number of hospitals, medical museums and 

 many medical societies. Besides this there are 

 colleges and natural history museums where 

 men are studying medical zoological subjects. 



The London School of Tropical Medicine 

 has recently moved into a building that was 

 formerly used as a hotel but has been adapted 

 for hospital and teaching purposes. The first 



