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published by the University Press, Cambridge. Parasitology first appeared 
as a Supplement to The Journal of Hygiene in March, 1908, but, commencing 
with the sixth volume (1913) it became an independent journal, and to-day it 
represents the leading periodical publication dealing with parasitology. 
PLANS FOR THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT 
OF THE INSTITUTE AND THEIR 
DEPENDENCE ON FURTHER ENDOWMENT. 
The Institute was founded for the advancement of our knowledge of 
Parasitology in all its branches, being in this respect the first of its kind. 
Hitherto Parasitology has been taught in a limited way in professional schools, 
either medical or veterinary, in zoological and botanical laboratories, or in 
conjunction with agriculture and fisheries; consequently the student has been 
precluded from obtaining a general survey of the subject as a science. Similarly, 
in the matter of research, the work carried on in the various schools has been 
largely confined to problems having only a practical professional bearing. 
The Molteno Institute proposes to deal with Parasitology on a broad biological 
basis, the research and instruction offered therein being directed both to purely 
scientific and practical problems because pure and applied science are in¬ 
separably interwoven and many of the most important practical discoveries 
in the past have had their origin in purely scientific investigation. 
Parasites and parasitic affections are widely distributed in Nature, the chief 
forms among the innumerable parasites affecting animals and plants being 
found among Protozoa, Vermes, Insecta, Acarina, and Fungi including Bacteria. 
It is evident therefore that the student desiring to obtain a broad survey of 
Parasitology will require to familiarize himself with a large number of widely 
divergent groups of organisms and that he should have corresponding facilities 
for their study placed at his disposal. 
The well-equipped Institute herein described is an instrument of research 
which cannot be used to full advantage without ample funds. To render the 
work of the Institute efficient and to carry out the plan which governed its 
design and equipment it is necessary that an endowment fund or funds shall 
be established. 
The present permanent endowments yield a total annual income of £861 
derived from (a) the Quick Fund (£300 for research and laboratory), (b) the 
Molteno Benefaction (£546 for maintenance of Institute), and (c) the Walter 
Myers Fund (£5 for Library). Of this amount £500 go to meet the exorbitant 
rates and taxes at present demanded on the building, leaving but £351 for 
general purposes. Needless to say this sum represents but a fraction of the 
annual expenditure required to run the Institute and pay stipends, salaries, 
maintenance, cost of research, apparatus, chemicals, books, etc. 
The main expenditure in running the Institute is met by grants for research 
derived from various sources as in the case of the Quick Laboratory during 
previous years. It will be readily understood that it is a grave drawback 
to any Research Institution to be dependent on grants because these are 
