February, 1912.] Annual Address, xl vii 
places in the locality, and in this way he has shown that the 
largest number of Anopheline fuliginosus is found in Calcutta 
about November. 
r. Brahmacari has also been investigating that grave 
condition known as ‘“‘ Kala Azar,!’’ or as I prefer to call it 
** Kala Jar,’’ and has made some observations on the Wasser- 
caused such a terrible mortality some decades ago. His conclu- 
sions appear to him to suggest that this fever which deci- 
ated Burdwan and neighbouring districts was in reality the 
simultaneous prevalence of malarial fever and Kala Jar, both in 
an intense form. 
Recent advances in Tropwal Medicine and Pathology.— 
There is no branch of medicine in which greater advances have 
been made of recent years than in tropical pathology. I may 
without exaggeration say that it has advanced by leaps and 
bounds and notable discoveries are announced every year. 
e, or some 
fresh light on an old disease, or may be some idea full of promise 

mea: 
Assamese-English dictionary which gives ‘‘ jar ’’ asa synonym for fever 
and explains ‘‘ kala ’’ as death, although it may also mean black. Hem 
puts time and death as synonymous words. 
