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Annual report
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Proceedings of a Meeting of the Society held on Friday, June 15th, 1917, at 5.30 p.m., at 11, Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, W. 1, Sir RO~ALD ROSS, K.C.B., F.R.S. (Hon. Vice-Preside~t), in the Chair.
ANNUAL
REPORT.
The CHAIRMAI~1 called upon the tton. Secretary to read the Annual Report and the Treasurer's Statemen~ of Accounts. Dr. L o w presented these statements in abstract, also the result of the ballot for President and Members of Council for next Session. These the meeting agreed to. The CI~AIaMAN : Gentlemen, in the absence of our President, up till now Dr. SA~DWlTIt, I have been called upon to induct into the Chair our new President, Sir I)A¥ID BRUCE, whom, personally, I am delighted to see in this distinguished office. We tnust all remember, and we do all remember minutely, the work of Surgeon-General Sir DAVID ]3aUCE. It begins with the work that he did in Malta on Malta fever; and that was one of the most perfect bits of bacteriological investigation ever done, for he shewed clearly that Micrococcus melitensis is the cause of Malta fever. Next, you may remember his most distinguished work on nagana, about 1894. He was one of the very first to shew how insects are engaged in the transference of animal parasites from host to host. Then came his work, a little later, upon sleeping sickness. His Commission found the cause of sleeping sickness and the mode of its transference by means of a Glossina. Then he was President of a Committee of the l~oyal Society, supported by Government, to investigate Malta fever still further, with the result, as we all know, that it was shewn to be transferable largely through the agency of goats. ~Sir DAVID B~UCE has been l~bouring consistently and constantly all his life on these great pathological problems, and the solution of any one of the problems I have mentioned is enough to give a m~n the greatest
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credit in the world. I a m sure that not only is the medical profession indebted to him for the work he has done, but the whole world is equally indebted. A n d I need scarcely point out that a m a n w h o discovers the cause of a disease, or the m o d e of transference of a disease, confers a benefit on the whole of h u m a n i t y ~ a benefit which will continue to be of use not only in the present but for all future time. I will now end these brief words of appreciation of our new President by inviting him to take the Chair.
Sir DAVID BRUCE, C.B., took the Chair. The PRESIDENT : I have to thank you, gentlemen, for. the very kind way in which you have received my being made President. I have tO announce that Mr. J. CAN'±'r,I~. has been elected Treasurer. Will anyone propose Auditors for the year? Dr. A. G. BAGSHAWE: I propose that Dr. BEDDOES be re-elected and that Dr. LEIPER be asked to take my place. Sir RONALD ROSS : I second those proposals.
The proposals were carried. The PRESID]~NT: This settles the busir~ess at the annllal meeting. We now proceed 'to the papers.
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Proceedings of a Meeting of the Society held on Friday, June 15th, 1917, at 5.30 p.m., at 11, Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, W. 1, Sir RO~ALD ROSS, K.C.B., F.R.S. (Hon. Vice-Preside~t), in the Chair.
ANNUAL
REPORT.
The CHAIRMAI~1 called upon the tton. Secretary to read the Annual Report and the Treasurer's Statemen~ of Accounts. Dr. L o w presented these statements in abstract, also the result of the ballot for President and Members of Council for next Session. These the meeting agreed to. The CI~AIaMAN : Gentlemen, in the absence of our President, up till now Dr. SA~DWlTIt, I have been called upon to induct into the Chair our new President, Sir I)A¥ID BRUCE, whom, personally, I am delighted to see in this distinguished office. We tnust all remember, and we do all remember minutely, the work of Surgeon-General Sir DAVID ]3aUCE. It begins with the work that he did in Malta on Malta fever; and that was one of the most perfect bits of bacteriological investigation ever done, for he shewed clearly that Micrococcus melitensis is the cause of Malta fever. Next, you may remember his most distinguished work on nagana, about 1894. He was one of the very first to shew how insects are engaged in the transference of animal parasites from host to host. Then came his work, a little later, upon sleeping sickness. His Commission found the cause of sleeping sickness and the mode of its transference by means of a Glossina. Then he was President of a Committee of the l~oyal Society, supported by Government, to investigate Malta fever still further, with the result, as we all know, that it was shewn to be transferable largely through the agency of goats. ~Sir DAVID B~UCE has been l~bouring consistently and constantly all his life on these great pathological problems, and the solution of any one of the problems I have mentioned is enough to give a m~n the greatest
188
ANNUAL
REPORT.
credit in the world. I a m sure that not only is the medical profession indebted to him for the work he has done, but the whole world is equally indebted. A n d I need scarcely point out that a m a n w h o discovers the cause of a disease, or the m o d e of transference of a disease, confers a benefit on the whole of h u m a n i t y ~ a benefit which will continue to be of use not only in the present but for all future time. I will now end these brief words of appreciation of our new President by inviting him to take the Chair.
Sir DAVID BRUCE, C.B., took the Chair. The PRESIDENT : I have to thank you, gentlemen, for. the very kind way in which you have received my being made President. I have tO announce that Mr. J. CAN'±'r,I~. has been elected Treasurer. Will anyone propose Auditors for the year? Dr. A. G. BAGSHAWE: I propose that Dr. BEDDOES be re-elected and that Dr. LEIPER be asked to take my place. Sir RONALD ROSS : I second those proposals.
The proposals were carried. The PRESID]~NT: This settles the busir~ess at the annllal meeting. We now proceed 'to the papers.
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