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(5) " Study of tlie Excretion of Fluorine with and without Tea Ingestion" (Harrison). (6) " Summarized Report on Riboflavin and Thiamin Status of Pregnant Women " (Olemow and Macfarlane). (7) " Further Note on the Inferiority of Pea-meal as compared with Meat-meal in Stock Diets for Rats " (Connor and Weeber). (8) " Thiamin Excretion in Normal Subjects (Macfarlane). (9) " Assay of Riboflavin in Higher-extraction Flour : Riboflavin Content of Wheat. and 80-per-cent. Extraction Flour Six Months after Change" (Clemow). (10) " Assay of Riboflavin in North Island Fish " (Clemow). (11) " Progress Report on Thiamine Content of some New Zealand Fish" (Macfarlane). Printed (1) " Report on Incidence of Rickets in New Zealand " (Malcolm). N.Z. Medical Journal, October, 1946. (2) " Nutritional Factors affecting the Teeth " (Harrison and Bell). ' N.Z. Dental Journal, January, 1947. (3) " Wholemeal versus White Bread " (Bell). Dental Journal, January, 1946. Hydatids Research. —Reports on research submitted, including " Incidence of Hydatid Disease in New Zealand," " Styx Experiment Returns," and " Graph of Cultivation in vitro of Hydatid Scolices." Results of last-named embodied in paper submitted to Parasitology Journal. During the year an article entitled " Hydatid Disease " was published in Journal of N.Z. Association of Bacteriologists giving summary of diagnostic and brief outline of lines of research. " Testing Arecoline Hydro bromide as an Anthelminthie for Hydatid Worms in Dogs " (Batham). Parasitology, Vol. 37, Nos. 3, 4, August, 1946. Clinical Medicine Research. —Publications (1) " The Spread of Infective Hepatitis and Poliomyelitis in Egypt " (Van Rooyen and Kirk). Edinburgh Medical Journal, 53, 527. (2) " Pathogenesis of Pleurisy with Effusion " (Thompson). American Review of Tuberculosis, 54, 349. Papers in press : (1) " Circulating Properties of ■iso-Thioureas, Guanidines, iso-Ureas, and Amidines 1 (Fastier and Smirk, with successive collaboration of Crawford and Strang). Journal Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. (2) " Some Observations on High Blood Pressure " (Smirk). New Zealand Medical Journal. (3) " The Functional Pathology of Essential Hypertension " (Smirk). Transactions of Royal Australasian College of Physicians. (4) " Observations on the Classification and Renal Function Changes in* Nephritis " (Smirk). Transactions of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

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