Federated Malay States Research Articles

Fifth Pacific Science Congress

REFERENCE has already been made in these columns to the Fifth Pacific Science Congress to be held in Victoria and Vancouver on June 1–14 (NATURE, April 22, p. 581). From a report dated May 2 issued by the National Research Council of Canada, it appears that of 393 scientific papers received for presentation at the Congress, 131 have come from Japan, 101 have been received from the United States, fifty-six from Canada, seventeen each from China and New Zealand, eleven each from Australia and Great Britain, eight from the Netherlands Indies, four each from Hawaii, Mexico, Siam, and the Netherlands, three each from India and Peru, two each from Norway, Straits Settlement and Federated Malay States and Sweden and one each from Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Fiji, France, Guatemala, Philippine Islands and Spain. Arrangements are being completed whereby through the courtesy of the British Post Office, the Canadian Marconi Company, the Bell and British Columbia Telephone companies, a demonstration of a long distance wire and radio circuit will be made at the Congress and a speaker heard from Great Britain. Commdr. C. P. Edwards, Director of the Radio Branch, Department of Marine, Canada, is in charge of the demonstration.

Report on a Collection of Nematodes from the Federated Malay States

Report on a Collection of Nematodes from the Federated Malay States

Survey Marks

Abstract This system was started by the Survey Department, Federated Malay States and Straits Settlements in 1927 to facilitate the work of the Department in checking resurveys, subdivisions, etc., and also the work of land officers, agricultural officers and other officials who, in the course of their work, find it necessary to identify the number of a lot and its position on the map.

A case of infection by trypanosoma lewisi in a child

A case of infection by trypanosoma lewisi in a child Get access P.D. Johnson, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. P.D. Johnson, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Medical Officer, Batu Gajah, Perak, Federated Malay States Germany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 26, Issue 5, March 1933, Pages 467–468, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0035-9203(33)90105-4 Published: 01 March 1933

The Geology of the Scheelite Mine, Kramat Pulai Tin Limited, Kinta, Federated Malay States

I. Introduction This paper has been written to place on record the very considerable differences that exist between this occurrence of scheelite ore at Kramat Pulai and the other important scheelite deposits of the world. Although specimens of scheelite have been found in fairly numerous localities in the mineralized calcareous rocks of Malaya, few deposits of the mineral are known to be of economic value, and those at Kramat Pulai are the most important source of tungsten ore. The occurrences will interest all who are concerned with the genesis of ore-deposits, for they consist almost entirely of fluorite and scheelite, with a very small admixture of quartz and other minerals; in this they differ from the scheelite deposits described by F. L. Hess (1917 and 1921) and by Hess and E. S. Larsen (1921). The authors wish to make acknowledgment to Mr. J. B. Scrivenor for the help afforded by the results of his work, undertaken when the mine was first worked and when soil and alluvium obscured the structure to a greater extent than they do now. Their thanks also are due to Mr. F. H. Symonds, General Manager of the Company, and to Mr. J. Weekley, his Assistant, who have much helped the investigation. They are indebted also to Mr. J. G. Shenton, Chemist, Geological Survey Department, Federated Malay States, for supplying the necessary chemical analyses. The Kramat Pulai Tin Company, Limited, holds mining leases covering an area of 2418 acres clustered round the old village of Pulai,

Empire Broadcasting

SINCE the opening of the Empire Broadcasting Station at Daventry on December 19 (see NATURE, 131, 16, Jan. 7, 1933) the British Broadcasting Corporation has received a large number of cablegrams reporting reception of the transmissions in all parts of the world. A very large number of letters has also been received from listeners, and extracts from some of these are published in recent issues of World Radio, which is now the official organ of Empire broadcasting. Good quality reception is reported from such places as Bagdad, the Federated Malay States, Zululand, Tanganyika, various parts of India, New Zealand, and North and South America. In some places, particularly South Africa, local atmospheric conditions have marred the reception to some extent, but on the whole it would appear from the first few weeks' tests that the inauguration of the new Empire broadcasting service has been a conspicuous success. The aerial arrays and the transmitters for the Empire Broadcasting Station at Daventry were designed, constructed and installed by Messrs. Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd.

Leprosy in the Federated Malay States

Leprosy in the Federated Malay States

Serological Evidence on the European Type of Typhus Fever in China

Fletcher and Lesslar1 described what they called tropical typhus from the Federated Malay States. By using several strains of B. proteus × for the Weil-Felix test they showed that, though clinically the same, urban cases gave a positive agglutination with the X19 (Warsaw) strain while those from rural districts gave positive tests only with the Kingsbury strain. Spencer and Maxcy2 using the variants of X19, X2, and Xk (Kingsbury) found that the sera of patients with endemic typhus invariably agglutinated to a high titre the X19 strain, but possessed no appreciable group agglutinins for other strains. With Rocky Mountain spotted fever, however, X19 organisms were agglutinated significantly only in a minority of cases and to a lower titre than in endemic typhus; moreover, agglutinins for X2 and Xk were also found in a considerable proportion of these cases. Felix and Rhodes3 have recently studied more extensively the sera of patients with typhus and typhus-like diseases from various parts of the world and c...

New Year Honours

THE New Year Honours List includes the following names of scientific workers and others associated with scientific work: Baron: Sir Thomas Horder, Bt., senior physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Knight of the Thistle: The Right Honourable Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bt., chairman of the Boyal Commission on Scottish Historical Monuments, president of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1900–13. K.C.B.: Sir Frederick Leith-Boss, chief economic adviser to His Majesty's Government. K.C.I.E.: Major-General J. W. D. Megaw, Director-General of the Indian Medical Service. K.C.V.O.: Mr. F. J. Willans, surgeon apothecary to H.M. Household at Sandringham. Knights: Mr. C. A. Cochrane, chairman of the Council of Armstrong College, University of Durham. Mr. H. H. Dalrymple-Hay, consulting engineer, for his inventions and services in connexion with the construction of tube railways. Prof. F. T. G. Hobday, Principal and Dean of the Boyal Veterinary College. Mr. A. J. C. Huddleston, lately economic adviser to the Sudan Government. Mr. J. L. McKelvey, for services to surgery in the Commonwealth of Australia. Mr. E. B. D. Maclagan, Director and Secretary, Victoria and Albert Museum. Mr. W. Perry, president of the Royal Agricultural Society, New Zealand. Mr. B. S. Rait, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow since 1929. C.H.: Bev. John Scott Lidgett, president of the Methodist Church, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London in 1930–31 and 1931–32. C.M.G.: Dr. J. J. C. Bradfield, Government engineer, Sydney Harbour Bridge, State of New South Wales. Prof. D. B. Copland, professor of commerce, University of Melbourne. Mr. L. Ennis, constructing engineer for Messrs. Dorman, Long and Co., Sydney Harbour Bridge, New South Wales. Mr. W. B. Johnson, director of Medical and Sanitary Service, Nigeria. Mr. W. J. U. Woolcock, formerly general manager of the Association of British Chemical Manufacturers, chairman of the Committee of Non-official Advisers associated with the industrial advisers of the United Kingdom delegation at the Ottawa Conference. C.I.E.: MajorGen. W. C. H. Forster, Surgeon-General with the Government of Bombay. Lieut.-Col. R. B. Seymour Sewell, director of the Zoological Survey of India. Mr. C. G. Trevor, chief conservator of forests, Punjab and North-West Frontier Province. Col. J. N. Walker, director of the Medical Department and Sanitary Commissioner, his Exalted Highness the Nizam's Government, Hyderabad, Deccan. C.B.E.: Mrs. Alice Baker, one of the founders of the Thomas Baker, Alice Baker, and Eleanor Shaw Medical Besearch Institute, Melbourne, Commonwealth of Australia. Dr. F. H. A. Marshall, reader in agricultural physiology in the University of Cambridge. Dr. S. W. Smith, chief assayer, Boyal Mint, and president of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Dr. H. A. Tempany, director of agriculture, Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States. Prof. H. E. Whitfeld, Vice-Chancellor of the University, State of Western Australia. O.B.E.: Dr. J. T. Bradley, chief medical officer, Seychelles. Mr. A. V. Elsden, War Department chemist, Boyal Arsenal, Woolwich. Mr. A. McCallum, senior inspector for agricultural education, Department of Agriculture for Scotland. Mitharam Pribhdas Mathrani, executive engineer, Left Works Division, Lloyd Barrage Circle, Sukkur, Bombay. Dr. S. A. Neave, assistant director, Imperial Institute of Entomology. Mr. J. Smith, director of animal health and acting secretary for agriculture, Northern Bhodesia. Mr. H. W. O. Taylor, executive engineer, Bight Works Division, Lloyd Barrage Circle, Sukkur, Bombay. Mr. B. S. Taylor, principal medical officer, Somaliland Protectorate. M.B.E.: Mr. J. Coelho, assistant Crown surveyor and assistant engineer, Public Works Department, Gibraltar. Mr. W. M. Schutte, agricultural engineer to the Government of Bombay. Mr. H. N. Williams, assistant engineer, Irrigation Department, Iraq.

Federated Malay States. Annual Report of the Chief Chemist for the year 1931

Federated Malay States. Annual Report of the Chief Chemist for the year 1931

Therapeutic Malarialization of General Paralytics in the Tropics

During the last few years, in which pyretotherapy has figured so largely in the treatment of general paralysis of the insane, the question must have arisen in many minds whether general paralysis occurs in communities where malaria is indigenous, and if so, whether satisfactory results would be obtained from further malarialization on artificial lines.The Central Mental Hospital of the Federated Malay States has over 2,500 patients in residence, and draws its cases from the whole of the Malay Peninsula. Many races are represented besides the native Malay and associated races—Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Indian, etc.—and malaria is indigenous over the whole territory.

Sir Ronald Ross

FOR many weeks the thoughts of scientific colleagues everywhere, as well as those of a large group of the lay public, have frequently turned to the bedside of Sir Ronald Boss where he was lying grievously ill. All who knew Sir Ronald personally cherished the hope that they might again be privileged to meet him, though in their minds they knew that such an event was unlikely. The parting came on Friday last, when he crossed the dark river into the land of silence. To few men have such brilliant and intellectual attributes been given, and none has had greater influence upon the comfort and welfare of the human race. The versatility of his genius was really remarkable. Not only was he the author of several mathematical works of high order, but his volumes of verse showed him to possess rich talents of poetic conception and expression. His scientific work is appropriately surveyed on p. 465 of this issue by Sir Malcolm Watson, director of tropical hygiene and principal of the Department of Malaria Control at the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases, where Sir Ronald Ross died. We are fortunate in being able to publish this appreciation from one who did so much to apply the results of Sir Ronald's investigations to anti-malarial measures in the Federated Malay States, Singapore, and elsewhere, and has been closely associated with him at the Ross Institute for several years.

Observations on Melamphaus faber, F. (Hem., Pyrrhocoridae) and Descriptions of early Stages

Early in the month of January 1931 a large swarm of the Pyrrhocorid bug, Melamphaus faber, F., invaded trees of Hydnocarpus anthelmintica, Pierre, and H. wightiana, Blume, at the Government Experimental Plantation, Serdang, Selangor, Federated Malay States.

Malayan Trombidiid Larvae, Part I. (Acarina: Trombidiidae)

In 1915 Dowden reported a suspected case of tsutsugamushi disease, or Japanese river fever, from the Federated Malay States. Twelve years later Fletcher and Field (1927) were able to examine a series of cases and established Allothrombium. This spelling is adopted by Oudemans. In the absence of definite evidence of the original derivation, it would appear, in the light of Opinion 34 of the Rules, that the original spelling should be preserved, and Trombicula is therefore used in this paper.

Geology of Malaya

The Geology of Malaya. By J. B. Scrivenor. Published with the Authority of the Federated Malay States Government. Pp. xx + 217. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1931.) 16s. net.

New Year Honours

THE New Year Honours list contains the names of the following scientific workers and others associated with scientific work:—K.C.M.G.: Sir James Kingston Fowler, member of the Colonial Advisory Medical Committee. K.B.E.: Dr. F. N. K. Menzies, chief medical officer of the London County Council. D.B.E.: Miss Margaret Tuke, formerly principal of Bedford College for Women; Miss Edith Mary Brown, principal of the Women's Hospital and Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab. Knights: Mr. George Buckston Browne, who purchased the house at Downe, Kent, where Charles Darwin lived, restored and endowed it, and gave it to the British Association in custody for the nation; Dr. H. H. Dale, director-in-chief of the National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead; Prof. P. Geddes, emeritus professor of botany in the University of St. Andrews and formerly professor of sociology and civics, University of Bombay; Dr. H. S. Wellcome, founder of the Wellcome Research Institution and of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories, Khartoum. C.B.: Mr. F. W. C. Dean, formerly superintendent of the Royal Gun and Carriage Factories, Royal Ordnance Factories. C.M.G.: Dr. E. J. Butler, director of the Imperial Mycological Institute. C.I.E.: Lieut.—Col. J. Mori-son, director of the King Edward VII. Pasteur Institute and Medical Research Institute, Shillong, Assam; Dr. N. L. Sheldon, chief inspector of explosives in India. C.B.E.: Dr. Harriette Chick, for services to the Medical Research Council in connexion with research on vitamins and the science of nutrition; Maj. T. J. Hallinan, inspector-general of health services, Ministry of the Interior, Iraq; Mr. H. H. Humphries, city engineer and surveyor, Birmingham; Mr. V. A. Lowinger, surveyor-general in the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States; Mr. G. K. Menzies, secretary to the Royal Society of Arts; Mr. R. J. Mitchell, director and chief designer, Supermarine Aviation Works (Vickers), Limited, for services in connexion with the Schneider Trophy contest; Dr. H. Moore, director of metallurgical research, War Office; Mr. H. E. Stilgoe, chief engineer Metropolitan Water Board; Mr. J. M. Thomson, secretary for native affairs, Northern Rhodesia; Mr. C. Weatherill, assistant secretary and acting deputy secretary, Department of Agriculture for Scotland. O.B.E.: Capt. B. S. Cohen, staff engineer, Research Section, General Post Office; Mr. A. Harker, for services to the Committee for Research in the Dependencies of the Falkland Islands (Discovery Committee); Mr. F. A. Innes, medical officer of health, Gambia; Mr. R. Withycombe, director of the Electricity Department, Zanzibar. M.B.E.: Mr. W. N. Booth, assistant mechanical engineer, Royal Ordnance Factories, Woolwich; Mr. C. J. Colvin, assistant engineer, Irrigation, Ministry of Economics and Communications, Iraq; Mr. W. W. D. Dale, engineering assistant to the Director of Dockyards, Admiralty; Mr. J. E. Lesslar, formerly senior deputy pathologist, Institute for Medical Research, Federated Malay States.

Federated Malay States. Annual Report of the Chief Chemist for the year 1930

Federated Malay States. Annual Report of the Chief Chemist for the year 1930

News and Views

THE King's birthday Honours List contains the names of the following men of science and others associated with scientific work: Order of Merit: Sir William Bragg, in recognition of his eminent services in the advancement of science. Knights: Dr. J. B. Baillie, vice-chancellor, University of Leeds; Col. S. R. Christophers, director, Central Research Institute, Kasauli; Dr. W. C. D. Dampier-Whetham, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Dr. P. C. Varrier-Jones, founder and Medical Director of Papworth Village Settlement for the Treatment of Tuberculosis; Prof. S. R. Krishnan, King George V. professor of philosophy, University of Calcutta; Prof. H. Lamb, emeritus professor of mathematics in the University of Manchester; Mr. C. R. Peers, president of the Royal Society of Antiquaries; Mr. R. L. Robinson, vice-chairman and technical commissioner, Forestry Commission. C.I.E.: Dr. L. C. Coleman, director of agriculture, Mysore State; Mr. A. McKerral, director of agriculture, Burma; Mr. C. A. Malcolm, chief conservator of forests, Central Provinces, India. C.B.E.: Dr. Kate Barratt, principal of Swanley Horticultural College, Kent; Mr. W. J. Hadfield, city engineer and surveyor, Sheffield, a pioneer in modern developments of highway engineering and road surfacing; Prof. H. M. Hallsworth, David Dale professor of economics, Armstrong College, University of Durham; Dr. Alice Werner, lately professor of Bantu languages at the School of Oriental Studies, London. I.S.O.: Mr. W. H. Moorby, assistant civil engineer-in-chief, Admiralty; Mr. J. B. Scrivenor, director, Geological Survey, Federated Malay States.

The Metamorphic Rocks of Gunong Terendum, Kinta Valley, Federated Malay States

IN a previous paper in this Magazine, as well as in an official report to the Government of the Federated Malay States and in a paper in the Mining Magazine, I have discussed in some detail the geological relations of the pregranitic sedimentary rocks of the Kinta Valley, in the State of Perak, F.M.S.1 The relations of the mainly calcareous Raub Series of Permo-Carboniferous age and the rocks generally known locally and colloquially as the “ Schist Series ” (Triassic and perhaps Rhaetic), formed one of the principal subjects on which I was requested to report to the Government. My conclusions were, I think, sufficiently clearly expressed in the publications quoted, and it is unnecessary to repeat here the arguments and field evidence which led me to those conclusions.

A Study on the Extraction of Papain, the Active Digestive Principle from Papaya

The Papaya tree is common in all parts of India and is grown also in the Philippine Islands, Federated Malay States, Java, Ceylon, and other tropical countries.