xlvi Annual Address. (February, 1912. 
Society) at a lecture recently given by him at the University 
Institute, at which i had the honour of presiding, brought 
forward some startling figures on this and other kindred 
been provisionally called epidemic dropsy. The researches of 
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fascinating subject, and although I have barely touched the 
fringe, I have, I hope, shown you how full of interest the food 
question is, and how numerous the grave problems there are 
awaiting solution in this India of ours, and which we hope will 
one day be solved by the patient enquirer. To turn to another 
subject, that of haematology or examination of the blood. 
Much good work has been done of recent years, and members 
the erythrocytes or red-blood corpuscles. By observations on 
haemolysis (or blood destruction) he first tried to prove that 
it existed in the form of suspension, and that its solution in 
distilled water on hyposmotic saline solution follows the law 
of Mullanby and Hardy. He has further tried to prove that 
during haemolysis the erythrocytes exhibit a specific resistance 
