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we find that the unremitting labour of Sir Leonard Rogers 
during the past ten years has raised a monument to him in the 
form of the School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and the 
Carmichael Hospital. The difficulties and obstacles that he 
encountered would have daunted any other man, but to Sir 
Leonard they only acted as incentives to further efforts and 
more ambitious designs. In addition to the research workers 
headed by Sir Leonard there have been many enthusiastic 
advocates of the cause of medical research in India. The late 
Sir Pardey Lukis and the present and past heads of the medical 
services of India and Bengal have been unremitting in their 
efforts. 
It would take too long to mention the professional helpers 
ot medical research in India but there is one name which must 
be mentioned, that of Sir Kailash Chandra Bose who has done 
so much for the School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 
Calcutta. 
Apart from medical men there is a Jarge number of offic- 
ials from the Viceroy downwards and of non officials too who 
have generously contributed both in money and influence to the 
cause of research in India. The press must not be forgotten, 
it has always been to the fore in arousing public interest in the 
subject. 
To all these the country owes a deep debt of gratitude and 
those who are engaged in medical research must fully realise 
that the special opportunities which they enjoy involve corres- 
pondingly great responsibilities. They must feel that it is up 
to them to show that the work they produce is commensurate 
hen we think of the large number of powerful and in- 
fluential advocates of medical research we may be tempted to 
think that all is well with it, but there is another side to the 
attained to complete success and that there is nothing to be 
done but to allow the workers to carry on. Sir Leonard Rogers 
and other research workers have already stated their views on 
this subject in the most vigorous terms. I will not attempt 
to employ the weapons that are wielded with such force and 
effect by Sir Leonard, to do so would serve no useful purpose 
and would only expose me to well-deserved ridicule. At a 
later stage of this address I will lay before you a proposal which 
may lead to the desired result without laying research workers 
open to the charge of grinding their own axe. 
is no more important aspect of research work than 
the workers themselves. These may be grouped in the follow- 
ing classes :— 
I. The highest type of research worker to which belong 
men like Ross and Rogers. We cannot count on men like 
