eighth international congress of hygiene AND DEMOGRAPHY. To the Editor, "Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?Will you allow us to inform your readers that in accordance with the Resolutions of the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, held in London in the year 1891, a Tropical Section has heen constituted in the Congress to be held in Budapest in 1894, for the and prevention of Tropurpose of considering the origin pical Diseases and other problems of Hygiene and Demography specially affecting the torrid regions of the globe. We have much pleasure in announcing that the Direction of the Congress has appointed Surgeon-Major Theodore Duke, m.d., F.R.c.S., of the Bengal Army (retired), to be President of the Section. The subjects selected for special consideration by the Section are the following Cholera; Dysentery and Specific Diarrhoea ; Malaria; Yellow Fever; Leprosy; Tropical affections of the Liver; Elephantiasis, Beri-beri, Yaws ; the Influence of Tropical Climates on persons of European descent; Tropical Colonization ; Tropical Dietetics and the use of Alcoholic Liquors in the Tropics; the effects of Opium and other Narcotics used in Tropical Countries. The Congress will meet on the 1st of September next, and will continuo its Sessions until the 9th of the same month. Applications for Membership of the Congress should be addressed to the General Secretary, Prof. Dr. C. Miiller, Ilochus Hospital, Budapest.

ISAMBAIID OWEN, m.d.,

S. DIGBY,

Jlony, Secretaries of the Tropical Section. London. W., 40, Curzon Street, January 23, 1894,