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means of lectures, &c., and in other ways to further the aims of the 
League. 
Inspired by these ideas, the Committee decided to invite to 
Athens, at the expense of the League, a number of these medical 
men, and, on tiie 3rd and 23rd of May O.S. two medical meetings 
were held and were attended by about 50 physicians from the 
different provinces of the Kingdom. 
Each meeting lasted only two days, and the best means of com¬ 
bating the malarial disease was discussed. With the aid of the 
lantern and the microscope, in tlie Laboratories of the Hygienic and 
Pathologic Anatomical Institute, the malaria parasites and the 
various kinds of mosquitoes were shewn upon the screen, whilst the 
causes of malaria and the means of protection against the disease 
were explained at length in accordance with the most up-to-date 
theories. Visits were further paid to the bed of the llissus river and 
the breeding places of the Anophelines in the stagnant water. 
We consider that the assembly of these doctors at Athens met 
with complete success, and that it will conduce to the dissemination of 
the work of the League, as they have already formed, in their own 
districts, centres for the inculcation of the ideas of the League among 
the other local medical men. 
It gives us great pleasure to mention that only three of the doctors 
attending the Congress asked for, and received, tlieir travelling and 
hotel expenses. 
The President has received letters from some of these gentlemen, 
shewing that they are indeed making great efforts to realise the aims 
of the League, as they have both delivered lectures and have 
approached the local municipal Councils with proposals for the voting 
of funds, besides collecting money themselves for the purpose of 
draining the pools in the neighbourhood of the various communities. 
The action of the Board was not limited to the convocation of the 
physicians, but, actuated by the desire to place the information con¬ 
cerning the means of combating the disease before as wide a circle 
as possible, so that the people might be furnished with the most 
up-to-date ideas, the League printed and distributed gratis 30,000 
copies of a pamphlet containing information regarding the propa¬ 
gation of malaria and instruction as to the means of prevention. 
In addition, the General Secretary of the League, Dr. J. 
