SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
basis. “ Australian industry,” he stated, “ wants all the assistance that 
science can give to it. Australia has got a splendid chance, but she 
cannot afford to ignore the example set by other countries: The war 
awakened Great Britain to the value of science. America realized it 
before the war, but in many directions, now that peace has been re- 
stored, that country is mereasing her subsidy to science.” 
PROFESSOR CLELAND. 
Dr. John B. Cleland, who for the past seven years has been in charge 
of the microbiological work connected with the Health Department of 
New South, Wales, has been appointed Professor of Pathology—a newly- 
created chair—at the University of Adelaide. 
As an original investigator Professor Cleland’s name is well known 
in scientific circles. He has largely devoted his time to the prepara- 
tion of prophylactic vaccines, the recognition of doubtful microbes, and 
the microscopic investigation of unknown diseases. Outstanding work 
has been performed by him in the etiology and the mode of transmission 
of dengue fever. He has also carried out investigations into the trans- 
mission of the mild form of small-pox present in New South Wales 
some years ago.to calves and to monkeys, and recently had an oppor- ' 
tunity of investigating the nature of “ X disease” (an unusual form of 
encephalitis in man, allied to infantile paralysis), and successfully con- 
-veying this to monkeys, the sheep, the calf, and the horse, and thus 
opening up an avenue along which possibly control of the disease may 
be obtained. Other work that has occupied his attention is inquiry 
into a form of endemic hematuria in cattle, contagious mastitis in 
cows, black disease in sheep, and other animal diseases. 
As reereation Professor Cleland has pursued the study of ornithology 
and botany. In regard to the former he has done a large amount of. 
field work, and has studied certain parasites of birds as well as the 
economic aspect of bird life. In the latter he has paid particular 
attention to the higher fungi. He looks forward in his new sphere to 
following up various lines of research upon which he has been engaged, 
and to completing his work on influenza. 
Professor Cleland is a son of the late Dr. W. L. Cleland, is forty-one 
years of age, and is a native of the city to which his new appointment 
takes him, After three years’ study of medicine at. the University of 
Adelaide he completed his course at Sydney, where in each of the two 
years he was second in the list of honours. After graduating Dr. 
Cleland filled a number of local medical appointments, and in 1903 he 
went to England, where he was engaged in medical work for a couple 
of years. In 1904-5 he was Cancer Research scholar at the London 
Hospital. Upon returning to Australia he was appointed pathologist 
and bacteriologist to the Western Australian Goyernment, and then, 
going across to Sydney, he engaged in microbiological work for the 
Health Department. Dr. Cleland was a member of the special com- 
mittee on worm nodules in cattle, and of the special committee on the 
electrical sterilization of milk appointed by the Institute of Science and 
Industry. 
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