Fourth report of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum. Volume A, Medical / Andrew Balfour.

  • Balfour, Andrew.
Date:
1911
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    Oil tlie Civil side, have Drs. V. S. Hodson, H. C. Squires, 0. Atkey, G. E. Footner, S. Saigh and N. Malouf of the Sudan Medical Department. To Dr. Waterfield we are again indebted for museum specimens. Major W. Erskine, R.A.M.C., while in Khartoum in charge of British troops was most diligent in his attendance at the laboratories, where he did much work on Widal reactions, testing the permanency of the effect of anti-typhoid inoculation on the men of the Coldstream Guards. Major J. C. Jameson, Captain Harvey and Captain O'Parrell have since that time also spent much of their leisure at the benches. The last named has, moreover, very kindly aided in the compilation of the Review Supplement. Volume B. Tu:rning now to the second volume, it will be found that its contents range over a considerable variety of subjects, Chemistry, Entomology, Ornithology, Helmiuthology, certain Arachnida of the Sudan, Protozoology, Geology, Anthropology, Sociology and Sanitary Engineering all claiming attention. Again we are indebted to extra-mural workers. Mr. A. L. Butler, at my request, kindly furnished a useful practical paper on the grain-eating birds of the Sudan, which, fortunately, thanks to Mr. Wellcome, it has been possible to have illustrated in a manner worthy of the text. Dr. Leiper,i for the second time, favours us with an account of Sudanese parasitic worms, and Professor Werner, of Vienna, with a most interesting paper on scorpions and annulated spiders which, with its fine illustrations, cannot fail to be of value. Sir Thomas E. Eraser, of Edinburgh, has very kindly given us a paper on the venom of the Sudan Spitting-Snake, and Mr. Henry Curtis has written an account of the Spitting-Snakes of South Africa, which is illustrated by drawings made by Lady Dorothy Stanley. Mr. Dunn contributes an interesting account of ancient gold mining in the Sudan and Mr. E. V. Theobald notes on two new mosquitoes. Dr. Aders' paper has been mentioned, and Captain Anderson, whose monograph on medical customs in Kordofan was one of the features of our last Eeport, has again put pen to paper on our behalf, and contributes a most interesting paper on the Nyam-nyam and Gour people inhabiting the Eastern Bahr-El-Ghazal. The chief anthropological interest is this year supplied by Dr. C. G. Seligmann's paper. He and Mrs. Seligmann, in 1908-9, were given the laboratory steamer for their journey south, and in return Dr. Seligmann has kindly become a contributor, dealing with subjects on which he is a well-known expert. Finally, Messrs. W. H. McLean and G. E. Hunt, of the Gordon College, who have aided me so greatly in the public health work of the city, have compiled a practical paper on such aspects of tropical sanitary engineering as are likely to appeal to those who have to cater for the sanitary needs of towns in tropical countries, and which should be most useful to Medical Officers of Health, Sanitary Inspectors, Municipal Engineers, Boards of Health and other local Sanitary authorities, at least such as have to work in hot, dry and dusty countries like the Sudan. Turning now to the work of ii on-medical members of the Staff, one finds that Ml'. King has been most assiduous in his undertakings. As, at the beginning of his report, he gives an outline of what he has accomplished, where he has been and what he intends to do, I need not enter into details, but content myself with saying that Mr. King is a very valuable asset to the Sudan, and that every facility should be given him to make the most ol' his keen interest in, and sound knowledge of, his subject. I need merely refer to his researches on the bionomics of Tabanidae, which are now ^ Unfortunately the paper by Dr. Leiper was not received in time for publication.