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the members of the Society to the project of publishing 
photographs of ethnological interest as a supplement to th 
‘* Memoirs,’’ as proposed by the Anthropological Society in 
Tribes of the Burma-China frontier by Messrs. A. Rose and J. 
Coggin Brown, to whom anthropometrical instruments were 
lent by the Society. Mr. Coggin Brown has also prepared an 
account of a Lisu Jew’s harp which forms an interesting sup- 
plement to the Rev. W. Young’s description of this instrument 
as it occurs in Assam and Burma. Mr. Hooper has published 
in the ‘‘ Journal’’ two papers on Indian drugs of animal origin 
that have some anthropological interest, while Mr. I. H. Bur- 
kill’s account of fashion in iron styles is a valuable contribu- 
tion to the ergology of India. Mr. B. L. Chaudhuri in his 
description of a sub-caste of fish-picklers in Eastern Bengal 
utters a protest against the official methods of ethnological 
research prevalent in this country. 
Medical Section, 
Monthly meetings of the Medical Section have been held 
throughout the year with the exception of the two vacation 
months, and the attendance and interest in the meetings has 
Abscess by the Ipecacuanha treatment of Acute Hepatitis, 
which was opened by Lt.-Col. Pilgrim and continued 
physicians of the Medical College Hospital and other members. 
The unanimous opinion expressed in the great success of this 
treatment will go far towards procuring its general adoption, 
with the result of practically banishing one of the most dan- 
gerous tropical diseases, as far at any rate as Europeans are 
Lt.-Col. Pilgrim, I.M.S., was adopted by the meeting. 
** The ‘Medical Section of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 
