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spread. Did they from the first set apart a 

 representative body of experts to give up their 

 whole time to the investigation of this sole 

 problem? The answer is No. It is only now 

 that this has been done, on far too limited a 

 scale, that, as shown me by Captain Lisbon, 

 I.M.S., in 1904, the rat-flea is being proved to 

 play a chief part in spreading the disease. If 

 this is corroborated by further research, a 

 fresh campaign may be devised with consider- 

 able hope of success. The moral for all de- 

 partments of government is the constant cry 

 of " science " — more research. 



We learn from The British Medical Jour- 

 nal that the eighth session of the Australasian 

 Medical Congress will be held in Melbourne 

 from October 19 to October 24, 1908. The 

 president is Professor H. B. Allen, M.D. ; the 

 treasurer, Mr. G. A. Syme, M.B., F.R.C.S., 

 and the general secretary, Dr. H. C. Mauds- 

 ley, F.E.C.P. The vice-presidents include 

 many leading members of the profession in 

 South Australia, New South Wales, Western 

 Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, and 

 there is a secretary in each of the states of 

 the Australian commonwealth, and in the 

 north and south islands of New Zealand. The 

 council of the University of Melbourne has 

 granted the use of its buildings, and the gov- 

 ernment of Victoria has undertaken to print 

 the transactions of the congress. Addresses 

 will be given at the plenary sessions of the 

 congress by the presidents of the Sections of 

 Medicine (Dr. G. E. Eenuie, of Sydney), 

 Surgery (Dr. B. Poulton, of Adelaide), Path- 

 ology and Bacteriology (Dr. P. TidsweU, of 

 Sydney) and Public Health (Dr. J. 0. Mason, 

 of Wellington, New Zealand). Special meet- 

 ings will be devoted to the discussion of (a) 

 the relations of the medical profession to hos- 

 pitals, and (h) syphilis. There will be eleven 

 sections, the total being completed by the 

 sections of obstetrics and gynecology; anat- 

 omy and physiology, with experimental phar- 

 macology; diseases of the eye, ear and throat; 

 neurology and psychiatry; diseases of chil- 

 dren; naval and military medicine and sur- 

 gery; diseases of the skin, radiotherapy and 

 radiography. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



A FUETHEE £2,000 has been given by Sir 

 Donald Currie towards the equipment fund 

 of Queen's College, Belfast, bringing up his 

 contributions to the sum of £22,000. 



Lord Selboene laid the foundation stone of 

 Transvaal University College at Johannesburg 

 on August 29. 



FoEEiGN journals state that the Governor 

 General of Algeria has brought a proposal for 

 the founding of an Algerian imiversity before 

 the financial delegates, who have adopted it. 

 It will be remembered the late M. Moissan 

 and Professor Bouchard, having inspected the 

 secondary schools in Algiers, reported favor- 

 ably on the founding of a university. They 

 proposed the establishment of an institute of 

 natural science, experimental botany, zoology 

 and hygiene, and pointed out the political and 

 social effects of the foundation of a university 

 which would form a powerful link between 

 the various races which form the population 

 of Algeria. 



The barns of the new agricultural college 

 at St. Anne de Bellevue, near Montreal, were 

 struck by lightning on September 5 and de- 

 stroyed. The loss is said to be $50,000. 



In the medical school of the University of 

 Colorado, Dr. Edward F. Deane has been ap- 

 pointed professor of anatomy; Dr. John An- 

 drew, Jr., demonstrator in anatomy, and Dr. 

 Boss C. Whitman, professor of pathology. 



At the University of Chicago, Reuben M. 

 Strong has been appointed instructor in zool- 

 ogy; Victor E. Shelf ord, associate in zoology, 

 and Frank H. Pike, associate in physiology. 



Aethur L. Tatum, of the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed instructor in 

 chemistry in the University of Colorado. 



Harry J. Kesner, B.A., B.S. (Colorado), 

 has been appointed instructor in bridge en- 

 gineering at the University of Minnesota. 



Eeginald E. Hore, A.B. (Toronto, '05), 

 formerly demonstrator of mineralogy and 

 petrography in the University of Toronto and 

 member of the staff of the Bureau of Mines 

 of Ontario, has been appointed instructor in 

 petrography in the University of Michigan. 



