. The redemption of Africa; a story of civilization, with maps, statistical tables and select bibliography of the literature of African missions . aries in Liberia from 1836 to 1886. Doctor Savage be-came widely known as a scientist of recognized was a corresponding member of several scientific so-cieties, and gave critical attention to the fauna and floraof the Grain Coast. The Finland Society requires its missionaries to takea medical course before it sends them. They are in-structed in the treatment of ordinary diseases and theuse of the less dangerous remedies. The Hermannsburg
. The redemption of Africa; a story of civilization, with maps, statistical tables and select bibliography of the literature of African missions . aries in Liberia from 1836 to 1886. Doctor Savage be-came widely known as a scientist of recognized was a corresponding member of several scientific so-cieties, and gave critical attention to the fauna and floraof the Grain Coast. The Finland Society requires its missionaries to takea medical course before it sends them. They are in-structed in the treatment of ordinary diseases and theuse of the less dangerous remedies. The Hermannsburg Societys medical missions are intheir incipiency, but a brief medical course is alwaysgiven to its probationers. In its African field no specialnecessity for medical work appears. [?] The London Society sustains two medical mission-aries. In Madagascar this society opened medical mis-sions as early as 1862. In 1873 came the Royal MedicalCollege with forty^one students, a hospital for eightypatients, three dispensaries, fourteen native Christianwomen in training as nurses and ten thousand treat-ments annually. The Tananarivo hospital renewed. *
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