THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 89 
The library is steadily increasing in size and many new 
publication have been added to it during the year. 
As will be seen by the Treasurer’s statement, the finances 
of the Club are in a sound condition, the balance to the 
Club’s credit being £64 9s. 1d. 
The Council of the Club at its last annual meeting decided 
to try and obtain more suitable rooms for the Club meetings 
and are glad to be able to inform the members that they 
have secured the hall of' the Royal Society’s House at a slightly 
increased cost over that incurred in renting the rooms pre- 
viously occupied by us. This, however, has necessitated the 
alteration of the night of meeting from the first Thursday 
to the first Tuesday in each month. 
During the year Mr. Lancelot Harrison was compelled, - 
through pressure of work, to resign his position as Secretary 
of the Club and his resignation was accepted with much regret, 
glean ESoccaTT, President. 
FAS. « ISSEpw; EDS, Hon. Secretary. 
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THE importance of the branch of Economic Entomology, 
dealing with the investigations carried out in the tropical 
schools of medicine, both in their laboratories and exploring 
expeditions was first explained, and the establishment of the 
Tropical Schools at Liverpool, London, Paris and other parts 
of the world described. The value of the combined work 
of the trained entomologist in the identification of species of 
insects that act as intermediate hosts of the micro organisms 
causing tropical diseases, their range, and their histories, and 
the investigations of the biologist and the doctor taken to- 
gether have altered the conditions of life for the white man 
in tropical fever-stricken countries. 
The tropical zone forms a band round the earth about 1400 
miles in width, containing some of the richest and most valu- 
able land in the world, which, until the last few years, has 
only been occupied by the white man at a great sacrifice of 
life and physical and moral deterioration, for the white 
woman could not live in many parts of the tropics so he inter- 
married with the native and an inferior half-breed race re- 
sulted. 
