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Notes on some Australian Ticks received from Mr. C. J. 

 Pound, F.R.M.S. 



Communicated by E. T. Lewis, F.R.M.S. 



{Read Ajjril 2\st, 1899.) 



Plate 13. 



Many of the members of the Club now present will very well 

 remember Mr. C. J. Pound who joined us in 1890, and during 

 his residence in England was a regular attendant at our meet- 

 ings, and an occasional contributor to our proceedings. He was 

 at that time connected with the Bacteriological Laboratory 

 at King's College, but being subsequently appointed by the 

 Queensland Government, Director of the Brisbane Stock Institute, 

 he went out to the Colony, and has since been actively employed 

 in scientific investigations with a view to ascertain the causes and 

 possible remedies against the diseases of cattle and live stock 

 which were at the time entailing such serious losses to the 

 owners as to call for the attention and assistance of the Colonial 

 department of Agriculture. 



Mr. Pound has not forgotten his old friends, but has occa- 

 sionally made communications to the Club through Mr. Yezey ; 

 and in one of these, which was read to us last year, Mr. Pound 

 mentioned that his attention had been for some time engaged in 

 studying the mischief due to the attacks of Cattle Ticks, which it 

 seemed must be held responsible for much more than the perfora- 

 tion of hides and the sucking of blood — the bites introducing 

 disease germs previously acquired by the ticks from infected 

 sources, and giving rise to inflammatory sores, the effect of which 

 upon the animal was to set up conditions of disease known as 

 tick fever, red w^ater, etc., which in many cases proved fatal. 



The process of examining the animals and pulling off the 

 adherent ticks was not only tedious and difficult to carry out 

 thoroughly, but it for the most part greatly aggravated the 



