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MEDICAL EDUCATION. 233felt, moreover, that careful examination of large seriesof cases might bring new species to light, or show sometangible causative factor for conditions previously obscure. The work of the succeeding three years showedhow well founded this view was.This committee and other members of the MedicalAssociation have published annual reports in the ChinaMedical Journal, carefully collated by the chairman.The final report and summary, recently published, showsreports, more or less complete, from twelve provinces,not including Korea, Manchuria, Formosa, Hongkong,and Siam. The principal facts brought out were :(a). The almost universal distribution in China of Ankylostomutn(hookworm), the great number of cases of remediableanemia and disability due to infections with this parasite, andthe presence in China of both the old world (Ankylostomunxduodenale) and the new world (Necator americ.) species,(b). The wide distribution in the Yangtse Valley and itstributary waters of Schistosomum japonicum (blood-fluke) audthe extensive and fatal ravages due to it.The description of at least one new species.(c).In considering the final report of the chairman ofthis Research Committee at the triennial meeting of theC. M. M. A., held in Hankow during February, 1910, itwas agreed that the results of their work, though limitedin many ways, were satisfactory and the continuanceand expansion of the work highly necessary. In providing for the research of the next three years it wasfelt wisest to make the various branches of the Associtiouresponsible for the actual work, permitting thusa great increase in the numbers of investigators, and thecovering of special problems by men specially fitted forsuch work. The general supervision of these activities is placed in the capable hands of Dr. J. L. Maxwell, of Tainan, Formosa, the former chairman of theResearch Committee. He will be responsible also forthe collecting and publishing in systematic form ofall reports made. The general scope of research is toinclude :