The proceedings of the British Association, which ended on Wednesday,
have been of unusual interest. Of all the papers read during the past week none excited greater interest than Major Ronald Ross's on " The Story of Malaria," relating the slow stages by which the mosquito theory. originally started by the Romans, has been verified by the patient researches of Pasteur, Virchow, Laveran, Koch, and Major Ross himself, to whose splendid and unobtrusive ser- vices Lord Lister paid a generous tribute. Great a.Aivity was displayed in the newly established Educational Section, in which the scientific lion lay down 'with the humanist lamb, the discussions culminating in the Bishop of Hereford's powerful plea in favour of the reform of the entrance exami- nations at the Universities, and the redistribution of prizes. As the Bishop remarked, "a considerable proportion of the scholarships are given to those who do not need them ; and they become the reward, not of promising ability, but of the most elaborate and expensive preparation." The meeting, as a whole, seems to have fully justified the President's verdict that for hard work and useful work he could not recall a meting which came up to the standard of that just concluded.
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