evi Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [Feb., 1915. 
this help, and we cannot look to Government for more than a small part 
of the money requir ired. Government have done magnificent work of late 
years in establishing ee and subsidising research all over the 
jand, but much more is requ uired. We want Scholarships and Fellow- 
ships with armen Hg our best research workers. Endowments for this 
purpose will do more to keep alive the memory of the donors, than he e 
erection of een or other traditional forms of charity. It will ni 
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the various diseases that afflict them, and are hardly ‘eanciaua of thet 
existence. 
An Inpran Bureau or Pusiic HEALTH. 
But we not only require research w orkers, we want an organization 
that will help to educate the people in a ordinary rules of health. There 
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to be v y peciall “selooted—w ould do an immense amount of good I 
atocnineids "Gis eople, and wi sates education we can hope Hi very little 
advance along the road to hea. 
Until the usefulness of su acd a bureau is fully Se we 
perhaps hardly expect much help from Government, f paendd have pent 
to do with the public revenues, but I am icant sure they aad view 
mdeavour to educa e 8 with a pathetic 
e again, I am afraid, wandered fee from ‘te trick letter of xe 
text, but my excuse must be that a knowledge of Biology is so impor 
to all medical an ientific workers in India, and so inti tel ri 
up with the welfare of the people of India, that I n led on . 
of that most important subject. This subject lies very near ™ 
heart, for I have lived and oe among these people = 30 years and 
the Business Meeting held on the final day it was 
decided to hold the 1916 Congress in Allahabad and Prof. 
W. N. F. Woodland of the Muir Central College was requested 
to act as Honorary Secretary. 
PAPERS COMMUNICATED TO THE CONGRESS. 
Agriculture and Applied Science. 
The mage ses of craig jaae a of Indian Agriculture.—By Dr. 
H 
Chemical atonrdlogy. —By Mr. F. M. How 
sts Rot of Coffee caused by Hypochus T ailicalelia Kole- 
oga, Cooke).—By Dr. L. Coleman. 
Kolerogs of the Areca Palm and related Plant Diseases caused 
allied Species of the Genus Phytophthora.—By D" 
LD Coleman and Mr. K. Venkata Rao. 
The Water-supply to Madras City.—By Mr. J. W. Madeley: 
Appliances designed for the Exclusion of Storm Water 3? 
Silt from the Madras Sewerage System.—Mr. J. W. Madeley: 
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