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Tropical Medicine and accepted. It is rather beyond the scope
of this report because it deals with observation mostly ex-
-tending over a different period.
J should be glad to obtain from the Tropical Disease:
Research Fund Committee a list of invertebrate 0: mals that
it would be worth while experimenting on as intermediate
hosts for the warmE,
The study of fluke diseases in Hongkong is somewhat
important, there are few domestic animals which do not harbour
these parasites. The Colonial Veterinary Surgeon Mr.Gibson
has from time to time brought to notice the numbers and vari-
-eties found at the Slaughter House. About five sixths of
the area of the Colony is undecupied land, mountains and hill-
-sides, covered to a large extent with coarse grass. A feature
of the hills is the absence of animal life. The sheep of Europe
or the herds of goats which in India crop most jungle lands
so close are absent. It is chiefly a question of Parasites
Animal parasitology in South China is a large,difficult and
little explored field.
TRYPANOSOMIASIS, SPIRILLOSIS, OLANDERS.
During the absence of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon on
leave I have had many blood slides to examine from cattle
suspected of having anthrax. A large trypanosome was noticed
in the blood of several of the attle it was morphologicaly
similar to T. thelleri he ing often over
long and