Evandro Chagas Institute Evandro Chagas Institute The Evandro Chagas Institute (Portuguese Instituto Evandro Chagas, or IEC) is a non-profit organization which promotes public health in Brazil named after Evandro Chagas. In the 1940s fisherman Henrique Penna from the Rockefeller Foundation in Rio de Janeiro reported that he had discovered cases of leishmaniasis in Brazil's countryside. The disease had not been previously detected in Brazil, and as a response, Carlos Chagas of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute organized a commission leishmaniasis to be headed by his son Evandro Chagas. In 1938 this commission became the "Instituto de Pathologia Experimental do Norte", or Northern Institution for
Proceedings of the South Wales Institute of Engineers and is considered by the Library as one of "the most significant journal and periodical titles" in Wales. Proceedings of the South Wales Institute of Engineers Proceedings of the South Wales Institute of Engineers is the annual journal of the South Wales Institute of Engineers. It contains scholarly and popular articles on engineering, scientific and economic topics. It was initially published as Transactions of the South Wales Institute of Engineers (Vol. 1, 1859 to Vol. 62 (1946), then renamed "Proceedings of the South Wales Institute of Engineers", Vol. 63 (1947)- Vol. 99 (1991). In 1992 it was renamed Engineering South