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At a meeting of Medical Men and others interested in Tropical Medicine which was held in the Conference Hall of the Colonial Office on January 4th, 1907, it was unanimously resolved to form a Society to promote the study of the Diseases and Hygiene of warm climates, and to facilitate intercourse and discussion, among the Fellows. At subsequent meetings held at the Royal College of Physicians, and at 20 Hanover Square, the Society was duly constituted. Sir Patrick Manson being elected first President, and Professor Ronald Ross first Vice-President. The Council was also elected and Laws were approved and adopted.

The first ordinary meeting of the Society was held on June 26th, 1907, when the President delivered his Inaugural Address, and Dr. Daniels gave an Epidiascopic demonstration illustrative of Tropical Disease. Except during August and September, meetings have been held regularly every month since that date, the average attendance being forty Fellows and visitors.

During the year ending March 81st, 1908, twenty-one Papers were read and seven demonstrations were given before the Society. The chief subjects of discussion were Trypanosomiasis, Kala-Azar, Oriental Sore, Filariasis, and Ankylostomiasis, while important contributions on protozoological and helminthological science were read by Drs. Stephens, Nierenstein, Breinl, and Todd of Liverpool, Mr.