1868.] 437 [Gamgee. 



Mr. L. Trouvelot exhibited a cluster of very interesting 

 eggs of a large unknown lace-winged fly, probably a Goryda- 

 Ks; the eggs were found under a bridge. He also showed 

 some drawings of Cysticerci which he had taken from the 

 abdominal cavity of the rabbit. Twelve were found in 

 one animal, two of them on or near the liver, and two hun- 

 dred and sixty in another, most of them near the extremity 

 of the intestinal canal, although two had penetrated the 

 Jungs. The worms in the two rabbits were of different forms, 

 but Mr. Trouvelot considered them as probably identical on 

 account of the similarity of their mouth parts. Imbedded 

 beneath the skin of the second rabbit, on the underside of 

 the neck, he also found the larva of an (Estrus. 



April 1, 1868, 

 The President in the chair. Forty-three members present. 



Mr. Sanford B. Dole of Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, was 

 elected a Corresponding Member. 



Rev. John B. Perry, Drs. L. D. Sliepard an;l George G. 

 Tarbell, and Messrs. Joseph T. Brown, Jr., John Bryant, 

 Albert J. Cook, Horace F. Carpenter, William Holden, 

 Joseph H. Lathrop, Samuel T, Morse and Edward A. Strong 

 were elected Resident Members. 



Professor Gamgee of England, was introduced by the Presi- 

 dent, and offered some remarks on antiseptics for the preser- 

 vation of meats. 



Prof. Gamgee stated that the insufficiency of tlie supply of animal 

 food in the markets of Great Britain had led him to investigate the 

 various groups of maladies affecting cattle in the Old World, es- 

 pecially those which spread with such frightful rapidity from one 

 country to another through the lines of transit of cattle trains; but 

 efforts in that direction proving only partially successful, and the 

 price of many kinds of meat having risen from thirty to forty per 

 cent, in seventeen years, he had commenced in 1865 a series of exper- 



