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stock will certainly be enormous. And as the tick-fever 

 has come, why not Surra ? 



Trypanosomes in Australia.— Having regard to what I 

 have just said as to South Africa, and to the fact that 

 Trypanosomes have now been recognised also in South 

 America, North Africa, the Phillipines and East India, 

 and some of them are the cause of peculiar diseases in 

 animals and man, it is most interesting that, last June, Dr. 

 Angas Johnson, of Adelaide, found a typical Trypanosome 

 in the blood of the River Murray turtle (Chelodina longi- 

 collis). The examination of the blood of our various wild 

 animals might yield results of the greatest interest and 

 importance. 



A School of Tropical Medicine for Australia.— Recently 

 the Bishop of North Queensland has taken the subject up 

 and conferred with authorities in the three Australian 

 Universities, and as a result a movement is now on foot to 

 establish at least the beginning of a School of Tropical 

 Medicine in Australia, and it is in some measure to seek 

 your sympathy and support that I am addressing you on 

 the subject of tropical diseases generally. The French 

 Colonial Minister wrote "in order to colonise we must 

 render the colonies healthy." This is strictly applicable 

 to our own colony — the north of our own continent and 

 the islet of New Guinea. And unless these regions are 

 colonised, occupied, is it not true that do what we may, 

 they will be eventually occupied by Asiatic races, and then? 

 Thus it will be necessary to find out what changes of habit, 

 what measures generally, on the part of the immigrant may 

 be needed to fit him to the new environment, and it will 

 be perhaps even more immediately necessary to know what 

 are the diseases to which he will be exposed, so that they 

 may be prevented or cured. The Institute of Tropical 

 Medicine would educate the profession of medicine, would 



