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boracic acid, loose ; chlorodyne in liquid ; cascara 

 extract in liquid ; rhubarb and calomel pills ; Warburg's 

 tincture of quinine, in liquid. Also smaller tubes of 

 the following : arsenic and strychnine ; calomel, 

 Jg. grain ; chrysophanic acid, powder ; clove oil ; strong 

 myrrh and borax ; corrosive sublimate. The novice 

 will require small scales. 



The above is intended to be no full list, but it may 

 be useful as serving for a basis for discussion between 

 the intending traveller and his medical man. He may 

 also require some sedative drug, for which ammonium 

 bromide is suggested ; this will be found of great value 

 in nervous sea-sickness. The chrysophanic acid is 

 essential for ringworm. The bowels must be kept 

 properly open. If residence among " wild " natives is 

 intended, a few cheap strong purgatives and plenty of 

 quinine should be kept ; dentistry also is always a 

 great pleasure to natives, and, if practised, will make 

 many friends. 



Photographic Apparatus. — The value of photography 

 on tropical reefs and shores is well illustrated by the 

 monographs of Professor Alexander Agassiz. Photo- 

 graphs often give an idea of a reef or shore, of which 

 no mere word descriptions are capable. They also give 

 incontrovertible proofs of many facts. The writer 

 himself uses a stand camera, brass-bound, with Russian 

 leather bellows, the whole of the most expensive make. 

 It has been three times immersed in the sea, and "is 

 still almost as good as ever after nearly four years' 

 rough service in the tropics. He uses plates, ordinary 

 Wratten or Ilford, which he always gets sealed up by 

 the makers, and which he has found good after eighteen 

 months of tropical heat. A watchlike exposure meter 

 is essential, as the photographer from temperate zones 

 cannot judge the actinic properties of the tropical 



