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     11. The majority of the Inquiries under the Indian Research Fund
Association are conducted at the Central and Provincial Laboratories, the
School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, and the All-India Institute of
Hygiene and Public Health, Calcutta, or at the Laboratories of the
Malaria Institute or Nutrition Inquiry under the Association. Field
inquiries are conducted from these centres.

     12. Grants have also been given for Inquiries conducted at Medical
Colleges and may be given at any suitable centre.

     13. The Indian Research Fund Association maintains a library which
is housed at the Central Research Institute, Kasauli, the books and
journals being available for issue on loan to workers under the Association.
Stores are also maintained at the same centre from which equipment may
be lent to Inquiries.

4. THE INDIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH AND INDIAN
MEDICAL RESEARCH MEMOIRS.

     The Indian Journal of Medical Research which is the official journal of
the Indian Research Fund Association has been published continuously
since July 1913. Four quarterly numbers are published annually approxi-
mating to 300 pages each. The Journal is edited by the Director. Central
Research Institute, Kasauli, with the assistance of an Editorial Committee.
Publication is not confined to workers under the Indian Research Fund
Association or to members of the Medical Research Department but its
pages are freely open to all contributors of articles of medical research
nature dealing with work done in India which are considered to be of a
suitable standard. The Journal has taken its place as one of recognized
scientific value and its pages form a record of medical research in India
during the last 25 years.

     Material received for publication which consists of more extended con-
tributions on special subjects which are too large for publication as articles
in the Indian Journal of Medical Research is occasionally produced in the
form of separate Memoirs. This Indian Medical Research Memoir series,
of which 29 volumes have been published, contains many of permanent
value.

5. SUMMARY OF RESEARCH WORK CARRIED OUT ON SPECIAL
SUBJECTS.

     The field over which medical research has extended in India is a very
large one and it would be difficult in a review such as this to summarise all
lines of work. An outline of the work on special major subjects is contain-
ed in the notes given below.

* MALARIA.

     Malaria is believed to have been endemic in India from very early times.
It is generally accepted that this disease constitutes the major health and

* Contributed by Major H. W. Mulligan, M.D., I.M.S.