cciv Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
customed to receive such an elaborate report, asked him what 
was to be done with it, he replied “‘ File it, Bacharam.” That 
Ellichpur. A very successful conference organized by that 
enthusiastic member of the Indian Medical Service, Colonel 
Buchanan, closed for the time being my work in connection 
with mosquitoes 
tained an introduction to the Hon’ble Charles Rothschild, from 
whom I was able to learn something about these insects. After 
sanctioned but they were not completed till the Plague Re- 
search Commission was appointed. This Commission worked 
under the auspices of an Advisory Committee in England which 
was furnished with funds by the India Office. Dr. C. J. Martin, 
