The World Health Organization estimates that malaria annually causes hundreds of millions of illnesses, and more than half a million deaths. Surely these transaction costs of mosquito bites vastly exceed the value of the blood actually taken. In payment instruments, of course, a major goal is to reduce transaction costs, and intuitively cutting those costs seems especially urgent when they are ...

sense of my many shortcomings from my own ideals and from the high standard set before me by the fourteen Presidents under whom I have sat since I joined this Society in 1888. My tenure of office has coincided with what may be called a period of reconstruction following on the suspension of our activities for five years owing to the Great War. This reconstruction, or resuscitation, after such a...

my name to the list of your Presidents will endure as long as this Society itself. Again would I express my heartfelt thanks, all the more because exceptional circumstances are connected therewith. In your choice of President you went far afield. For better or for worse, after my transference from Edinburgh to Aberdeen thirty-four years ago, my connection with the Society dwindled into that of ...

It is a matter of great pleasure for me to extend, on behalf of the ICAR and on my personal behalf, a warm welcome to all, especially to our very distinguished delegates who have traveled from various parts of the world to participate in the Conference. I am glad to share with you that the Conference is being held at a time when our Central Institute on Buffalo Research has completed 25 years o...