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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