ecxxvi Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
ous subculturings spread over 6 then, to seer Para. B. serum (titre— 
6,(00) in dilutions as high as 2,500. The m of aon case of the se i 
tion taken during co nvalescence apultitineted wae y his own organ 
but also all the othe strains, in dilutions of 200 200, while “ae stock 
Para. B. emulsion was only slightly ae ted in 1 in 5 
The question of the real identity of the organism is stil aS ge rs ihe 
it ¢ preset bad "e aa to sigan et eine Seohae has yet to be pegs 
ed: idem the Turks due 
nies een ich a n be mercbreically differentiated from both 3. i B. 
and Bac Suipest 
(4) All5b _— ‘scourned within three weeks of each other, and, as far 
as ola be as map ed, the infections were all contracted in hdad. 
It would be of ¢ nsiderable intarat t to know what proportion of the other 
Iestegtian ble ‘colifo m organisms with the faye he characters of B 
para. which are being isolated from time to time in various areas 0 
Me esopotamia, have th e characteristics, and ae associated with the 
clinical signs of a sept icant or pulmonary age tii but the course of 
which does not at all suggest an ‘‘ Enterica”’ infect 
Report on the anti-beri-beri vitamine content and anti- 
scorbutic property of sun-dried vegetables.—By J. A. 
SHORTEN C. Roy. 
Part 1.—Introduction pret Bane deals with an investigation un- 
dertaken at the instance of Sir L d Rogers into the anti-beri-beri and 
anti-scorbutic pr ress es of ark dvi yedern la from the Fruit Experi- 
ment A oe tation, Que 
his par t madek a description of the methods of hl Spbakgetit etc. 
Of dus Pesstihind under investigation as described in Bulletin No. 8 of 
the Fruit Eiiperinment Station, dated March 1918, by Mrs. G. L. C C. How 
ard, M.A., Second Imperi ial Economic Botanist. 
Part 2 —Report on the anti-beri-beri Vitamine Content of four varie- 
ties of sun dried vegetables 
This part gives the oat of feeding experiments on common fowls 
and shows that ¢ the addition of a moderate quantity of the dried veget 
e 
ane and microscopic sli 
art 3.—Report on the acleliedoxbunie peopebey of sun-dried veget- 
This par t gives the results of feeding groups of guinea pigs 
basal aroricm de on a . with the = proneoge Se stile Weaubebion isi in 
the case of s of t oups. These rime not yet conclud- 
— = it is hoped tei’ slay will yield definite sharin tort the date of 
© Longress 
Appen ndix 1.—This is a — of the directions for cooking enclosed 
in each tin = St der vegetable 
Appendix 2.—Chem ical nbalyass of the varieties of vegetables experi 
mented with 
There were two apc discussions : the first on “ Nitro- 
genous Fertilisers’? was ned by Mr. J. MacKenna in the 
absence through illness of ike Sate and the second on ‘“ The 
Colloids and their Relation to Industry ” opened by Mr. R. L. 
Mackenzie Wallis 
Nitrogenous fertilisers.—By C. M. HUTCHINSON. 
The author, referring chiefly to the be ope prevailing in North- 
East India, pointed o out that nitrogen is by no means always the limit- 
