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capable and earnest workers, anxious to grapple with the many 
problems of disease which lie at our doors waiting for solution. 
work alone. It is only by the patient consideration of clinical 
and laboratory methods combined, such as can only be carried 
out in a well-equipped laboratory in intimate connection with a 
large hospital such as the Medical College Hospital in this city, 
that the unique advantages which Calcutta offers as a centre 
for tropical research will be fully realized, as I hope they will 
be in the near future. 
Americans have been only. a few years in occupation 
of the Philippine Islands, and yet they have built reserach 
laboratories and given occupation to a far bigger army of 
of India. Khartoum, a'so a city of yesterday, is far ahead of 
Calcutta in this respect, and yet Caleutta has a far larger popu- 
= and fine, better-equipped hospitals than Khartoum can 
ave. 
Ladies and Gentlemen, it grows late, and I know and feel 
that I have detained you far too long, and yet I have only 
touched the fringe of this fascinating subject. As I stated at 
the outset, I have been compelled to abbreviate and curtail much 
of the subject which I have endeavoured to place before you 
to-night. Not one evening—not twenty evenings—would suffice 
When it was suggested that I should choose as the subject of 
in other sciences that Saying is truae—‘‘ the old order changeth, 
yielding place tothe new”? In the nature of things this must be 
