SCIENTIST'S HELPMATE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 403, 12 January 1909, Page 3

SCIENTIST'S HELPMATE.

. Lady Bruce, a liandsomo, dark-haired woman, with;a merry' laugh ; and: singularly oharming manners, ■' is (says .-the " Daily Mail "). to , accompany the new commission under her husband/Colonel Sir David Bruce, which is being dispatched to Africa, by tho Government to ; investigate, sleeping, sickness, '■/■".rcannot tell you how much 1 am .loofe: ing forward to our expedition," sho said. "By tho middle of October wo shall have reached our-': destination.: I am not an . official/member of tho . commission, ' but L : shall bo taking -an active part in it;' particularly, in /connection' with the. microscopic work,-in which I always assist my husband. "Tho tsc-t«o fly,' to whoso door the sleeping sickness has been traced, will be the object •of our studies. Tho fly .inhabits ..'a narrow,, strip of : a'few yards in width round ' Lake:' .Victoria;-". and. we will- make : for a spot a' couple, of miles from.'the," fehores of the .lake. Tho journey will be easy enough except, in'the later stages,: when we shall probably- have: to cycle. The place is only about: threo miles from the equator. . - , ~y';: . "This is not by'any means my .'first' Expedition' of the' land. Indeed, ever ' since we wore marriedj 25 years ago, I have, whenever possible, acted as my husband's, assistant, and. shared in hia scifentific work. Rather .more", than, foiir -years .ago I accompanied .him to' Uganda/ for.V.the of' sleeping sickncss, 'and' from 1901 to 1906 I was with him - in. Malta. investigating Mediterranean fever. The roughest experience was in Zulu-land,v-where;, we. stayed ;twov years ting another- fly.: disease;. Then the. war .broke , out,; and;l,.went-', through th'eysiege.of. La'dy-. smith." :