civ Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [April, 
. O. C. Ganguly gave a lecture on ‘‘ JAPANESE PaInt- 
ING and ScuLpturRE,’’ with lantern slides. 
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The Adjourned Meeting of the Medical Section of the 
Society was held at the Society’s Rooms on Wednesday, the 
12th April, 1911, at 9-30 p.m. 
Lievt.-Cou. C. R. M. Green, M.D., F.R.C.S., 1.M.S., in 
the chair. 
The following members were present :— 
Dr. U. N. Brahmachari, Lieut.-Col. J. T. Calvert, I.MS., 
Dr. G. C. Chatterjee, Dr. H. M. Crake, Dr. B. N. Ghosh, Dr. 
A. M. Leake, Dr. Indu Madhab Mallick, Major E. E. Waters, 
Capt. J. W. D. Megaw, I.M.S., Honorary Secretary. 
Visitors :—Drs. 8. C. Bural and N. K. Sirkar. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The following cases were shown :— 
(1) By Col. Green— 
1. Acase of Syphilis which had been remarkably bene- 
fited by Salvarsan. 
_ In the discussion which followed Dr. Brahmachari men- 
tioned that he had had very disappointing results with the use of 
varsan in five cases in Kala Azar, Dr. Martin Leake had two 
cases of Kala Azar with similarly disappointing results, and 
Col. Calvert one case in which no benefit resulted. On the 
other hand, the Secretary stated that Major Murray, I.MS., 
had encouraging results in three cases of Kala Azar. 
2. Col. Calvert showed a case for diagnosis in which there 
was marked muscular atrophy and weakness combined with 
great deformity of the chest and vertebral column, the muscu- 
lar ae ete changes having developed recently and simul- 
eously. 
__ 3. Dr. Brahmachari showed some specimens of Anopheles 
Listoni found in Calcutta which had been identified by Capt. 
ristophers and which showed certain peculiarity in which 
they differed from the previously described Anopheles Listoni. 
4. Papers— 
(a) On the Biology of Black Mycetoma, by Dr. 8. C. 
rji. 
(6) On the Epidemic Fever in Lower Bengal, commonly 
