outside their appointed hours, and they answered our request with all pleasure; and we would likewise send urgent cases to their private clinics, where they received them with all kindness and gave them the best of treatment. Here are their names:

For internal diseases: Dr. Habib Shehadeh, Dr. Kamal Izz al-Din, Dr. Michel Du'aybis.

For women's diseases and surgery: Dr. Jamil Naja.

For skin diseases: Dr. Philippe Matta and Dr. Afif Suwayra.

For children's diseases: Dr. Abd al-Fattah Sahmarani.

For internal and women's dis-eases: Dr. Emile Salmoun.

We had no special doctor for diseases of the eye; so the doctors treated the outward ailments that required no specialist, and the rest we sent to the municipal health dispensary.

This year Dr. Jamal Karam Harfush volunteered to treat trachoma, just as last year she saw to the vaccination of a great number of patients against typhoid and smallpox. She asked the president of the American University, Mr. Dodge, to visit the dispensary, and he did not disappoint her request: he visited the dispensary accompanied by Dr. Pinkston, head of the medical institute at the University. Their pleasure was great at the activity the dispensary displays and at the throngs of patients who come to it, which shows their confidence in those who work there. Then they visited some of the patients in their homes, and saw the misery and poverty lodged in those houses, and those poor people's need of help and consolation; and they gave us great encouragement to persevere in the work, for the need of dis-pensaries like this one is pressing.

The vaccinations are carried out by Dr. Jamal Karam Harfush

with the nurses Sawaba and Behnoush twice a week. As for trachoma, it is treated by Dr. Mustafa Manghali and Dr. Adnan Baydoun of the American University.

Surgical operations are per-formed at the Islamic Makassed Charitable Hospital, where 75 operations have been carried out so far for the dispen-sary's patients.

We have one nurse at the dispen-sary, Miss Alice Jabr; she assists the doctors and performs all the technical work of the dispensary.

Number of patients

Internal diseases 2,136; surgical 1,192; diseases of the head 408; children's diseases 1,176; skin diseases 828; women's diseases 225; dressings 13,908; injections 1,725; examinations 10,456; minor operations 69; new patients 5,846.

In closing, I have every confi-dence that this dispensary of ours will flourish and grow all the more by its joining the new Red Cross society, and will render services nobler and greater than those it has rendered in the past, through the zeal of our lady pres-idents and our energetic ladies, and of our doctors so devoted to the poor. Peace be with you.

• Woman's chains are covered with flowers, so she does not see them; but with time the flowers wither and fall, and then she sees her chains and knows her bondage. (Voltaire)

• The charm of the woman a man adores has its source not in the qualities that are in her, but in the weakness that is in him! (Father Jouly)

societies in Britain and abroad. From that time these aims, with a little development, have defined the Society's work.

Most of its activity during the first fifty years of its existence was directed toward the encouragement of exploration, and its ties with the African Geographical Society are proba-bly part of the reason why Africa became the chief field of its activ-ity. The beginning of its flourish-ing era coincided with the great journeys undertaken by David Livingstone, and the Society's stamp appeared on many of these journeys. Nor were its activity and interest confined to the African field alone; it encouraged many of the explorers and travel-ers who penetrated the unknown wilds of Asia, Australia, South America, and the polar regions.

In 1901 the Geographical Society, in cooperation with the government, organized the British national expedition to the polar regions under the command of Captain R. Scott — an expedition that had brilliant results in the recording of much splendid scien-tific information. Scott completed this work on his second expedi-tion, but on it he met his death, together with his companions, on their return from the South Pole.

The Society depends entirely on the assistance of its members to carry out its mission. Among them are men and women of various nationalities, each with differing views and interests, bound together by nothing but the common desire for the advancement of the science of geography. In 1939 the number of members reached six thousand.