The Indian Medical Gazette claims to have found a case of scientific plagiarism in the recent publication of the discoveries as to the life history of the malarial parasite by the Italian observers, Bignami, Grassi and Bastianelli. It claims that these investigators were directly incited by those of Major Ross of the Indian Medical Service, who, in 1897, published in the British Medical Journal observations showing that he had followed the estivo-autumnal malarial parasite of man into the dapple-winged mosquito, and that his publications, as well as specimens prepared by him, were furnished the Italian investigators before they carried out their recent research, and that it is allowable with these facts to presume that their attention was directed to the Anopheles claviger, likewise a dapple-winged species, on account of this information. They do not credit Ross, however, with any priority, according to the Gazette, but merely say: " The observations reported