Feb., 1915.] The Second Indian Science Congress. ciii 
In this chawl then we had evidence of the following sequence of 
events :— 
1. Plague cag rats, and their sudden disappearance 
2. A few days later tena ae ge human residents by the fleas 
deprived of their voles host—the 
Hum ot Pisgue aa the piclar Nae so attacked. 
GOVERNMENT HEiXPERIMENTS, 
Evidence such as this was sufficiently — — to enable us to 
approach the Bombay Government for a grant ae to erect a range 
a ; 
imental godowns, or huts 
the possibility of the transmission of plague pie one anim another 
i d 
Liston, for it was by his persevering and ingenious 
efforts that this fea. ee ry: at first iacied by M. Simon, of the Pasteur 
itute during a visit to ner in 1898, a definitely rejothed 2 the 
first Plague Poe nienicn, placed o n such a basis as to be practically 
the only possible theory on » Bhich to ne 
MAtaRiaA, ETC. 
_ Here again we see the importance to be attached to a knowledge of 
ee 
e 
Biology by medical men. I could go on multiplying instances of the 
value of this knowledge, I ¢ mention the names of Sir > Ro ald 
th Y & study of uitoes, and the malaria ite, proved 
Col ‘ansmission of malarial fever in birds by the bites of these insects ; 
ae Dono to knowledge of protozoology his cele- 
the co-discoverer with Sir William Leishman of arasi 
na abn spread by this insect; Dr. R. Rao, of Bombay, whose capacity 
I direction has led to v. aluable discoveries in Kala 
18 perhaps pardonable in a Madras man like myself to draw atten- 
the fact that Sir Ronald Ross, Donovan, Liston and Patton all 
i 
hho daily bread. one exception ao, of Bombay, who 
ga leotureship i in the Medical Coliegs, is to all intents and 
an independent medical practitioner. 
: Encouraging Mrepicat RESEARCH. 
trust my friend Dr. Rao will for rgive me for bringing fo rward h 
cumstances in this public manner, but I do so with the hope that 
may be taken by the wealthy men of India to encourage medi- 
i n as bee 
medical research. ‘That is no doubt true, but the reason is 
Seek. The leisured and wealthy classes in India do not send 
