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apparatus required for all ordinary clinical work, the frame rendering the carrying of slides quite unnecessary. Should the frame be wanted for use with lamp light, a blue tinted slip can be inserted im place of the white one without trouble or loss of time. When ordering the frame from the makers it should be stated whether this extra slip is needed.

It is believed that this frame will be a help to many, especially to those who are obliged, either from choice or duty, to travel longer or shorter distances, and with whom every ownce is a consideration, not to mention the deterioration of glass slides. To such, a packet of covers will be all that is required.

I should mention that the dimensions of the “ open- ing” can be made to fit any cover-glass, provided the size required be given at time of ordering. Another

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} advantage is that the storing or preservation of i specimens requires but an infinitesimal amount of | Space compared with the ordinary 3 in. by lin. slides, _ and the great difference of weight is also in favour of covers and frame.

Fifty specimens, when covers are used, can be packed _@way in a box measuring 3 in. by 1 in. This box, also made for me by Charles Baker, is of aluminium, and ‘remarkably light. The sketch shows projecting teeth, between which the specimens are placed end-ways. On the larger of the two covers sufficient space will be found for a permanent label.

_ The frame and boxes being of metal, no danger of _ Warping or breakage need be feared, two strong recom- Mendations to those working in the tropics.

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_Measzes 1 Fis1.—An epidemic of measles is spreading idly throughout Fiji Reavitd all the precautions and tention of the local authority. In Suva alone 225 es have been reported. The Suva Public School has been closed, owing to the number of cases amongst ‘the children. Fifty of the armed native constabulary re down with measles and cighteen of the police.

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JUNE 1, 1903. TRYPANOSOMA CASTELLANITI.

Kruse, in a recent communication to the Medical Society of Bonn, referred to Castellani’s investigations into the cause of sleeping sick- ness, and named the trypanosoma found in the cerebro-spinal fluid and blood of patients suf- fering from sleeping sickness the T'rypanosoma The is that

Kruse considers the trypanosoma found by

Castellanii. inference, therefore, Castellani to be different from those already known in patients suffering from trypanosoma fever and described by Dutton (Trypansoma Gambiense). Be this as it may, there is no doubt that the discovery of a trypanosome in the cerebro-spinal fluid of persons suffering from sleeping sickness is an important one, and all credit is due to the young scientist who has added this fact to our stock of knowledge.

Dr. Aldo Castellani, although only 28 years of