124 The Molteno Institute for Research in Parasitology 
in the form of a series appearing in Parasitology with accompanying biographi¬ 
cal notes. The collection is of considerable interest to students of parasitology 
and others. 
The Library. 
The basis of a departmental library has been formed by the gift to the 
Institute of the whole of the writer’s scientific books, brochures, reports, 
journals and some thousands of reprints which are being suitably classified, 
bound and catalogued, new publications being continually added, ffifts and 
exchanges are also helping on the library. 
The nucleus of a Library Fund has been formed through a benefaction 
received from Mrs Stella Churchill in memory of her late brother Dr Walter 
Myers, who died in Para, Brazil in 1901 whilst investigating yellow fever 1 . 
Fig. 6. The book-plate of the Institute designed by the writer. 
The accompanying figure (Fig. 6) illustrates the book-plate designed by 
the writer for the library. The heavily parasitized border shows a reckless 
disregard for the relative size of the parasites depicted, most of the forms 
figured being readily recognizable to the initiated. 
Facilities for Publication. 
The publication of the scientific work carried out at the Institute is greatly 
facilitated by the circumstance that the writer is the founder and editor of 
the two journals, Parasitology and The Journal of Hygiene , the first having 
now attained its 14th and the second its 21st volume. Both journals are 
1 For biography and portrait, see Journal of Hygiene, 1001, i. pp. 285-287. 
