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IN the time available today it is not possible to deal with an industry so large, so scattered, so varied, as the silk industry in India. In the report prepared by Mr. Ansorge and myself the full details of the industry are recorded, and this report will shortly be available. This afternoon I pro pose to describe very briefly the general conditions of the industry, to state its extent, and to enable you to see whether India can ever be a large source of supply of silk raw products to this country.

MIEDICAL NE WS. [MEDICAL JOURNrA 3 I 7 I asked onie of muy soldier frienids thIis questiol: Supposing a ian refuses to take his portion of rumn, what is aiven to him in place of it ? His aniswer was, Nothing. I submiiit that this muan's answer suipports Sir Victor Horsley's conteiltion. Rumii is served ouit to these men, and tlley are told that it is to dlo tlhiem good, a man says " I don't want rumi, give me sometlling instead of it to do me good," and lie gets nothing ; therefore tlje rutm is given as a substitute for sometliing else that would be of benefit to tlle menl in the trpnelles. Dr. Mercier has failed utterly to grasp Sir Victor's contention respecting regulation No. 34. Sir Victor gives reasons wlly he considers tlle statements and suggestions in this regulation to be incorrect, reasons wlhielc