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obsehvations on filahije. 



have displayed opinions so divergent as above shown. I am greatly 

 indebted to Dr. Paterson, but I cannot abandon the views which I 

 put forth in the Linnean Society's Journal, and which I find Dr. 

 Magalhaes has quoted and endorsed in his paper entitled " envo- 

 lucro membranoso da, Fil a ria^Wuchereri" published in the " Gazeta 

 Medica da Bahia," for May, 1879, p. 223, et seq.— T. S. C. 



