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anterior surface of the sclerotic, beneath the conjunctiva. The 

 patient could feel the animal moving about. 



In 1898 Dr. Cherry (Inter. Med. Jour. Austr., Ill, 1898, p. 

 416) exhibited before the Medical Society of Victoria a worm 

 about 2h in. long, removed by Dr. Harris, of Rutherglen, from the 

 subcutaneous tissues of the eyelid of a man who had been a 

 missionary in tropical Africa. Dr. Barrett said it resembled in 

 general appearance Filaria oculi hiimani, or F. loa. These two 

 references are undoubtedly to Filaria loa, which is certainly an 

 imported parasite. 



11. Microfilaria demarqitayi Manson ? . Manson ("Tropical 

 Diseases." London, 1898, p. 446) regarded embryonic filariae found 

 in the blood of New Guinea natives as being probably the same as 

 the above species, which is only found in the West Indies. 



Braun (" Animal Parasites," 1906. p. 297) and Looss (Mense's 

 " Handb. d. Tropenkr.," I, 1905, p. 169) mention Manson's refer- 

 ence. Fiilleborn and Rodenwaldt (" Filarien " in Real. Encycl. d. 

 Gesamt. Heilkunde Aufi. 4. Berlin, p. 79) regard the identification 

 as doubtful. 



Occasionally references occur in the literature to other para- 

 sites found in man in Australia. In 1897 Dr. Brummitt, of Adelaide, 

 showed a worm 10 in. in length, very thin, white, and round, passed 

 with the urine by a woman. (A.M.G., 1897, p. 135.) The nature 

 of this organism seems quite uncertain, and it is possible that it 

 may have been an adventitious addition to the urine. In 1902 

 Dr. Angas Johnson, of Adelaide, described a worm passed in 

 the urine (A.M.G., 1902, p. 924). 



12.--THE FIRST INTRODUCTION OF CAMELS INTO SOUTH 

 AUSTRALIA AND THE WEST— DID SURRA OCCUR AMONGST 



THEM ? 



By J. BURTON CLELAND, M.D., Ch.M. {Syd.). 



Recently, while reading the Journal of Col. Warburton on his 

 expedition from Central Australia to the De Grey River in 1872 

 and 1873— the first successful expedition to cross the centre of the 

 continent — I have come across some interesting references to 

 camels, especially in the information in the introduction of the 

 volume — a brief survey of previous explorations in the same 

 direction — by C. H. Eden. 



From this introduction it appears that in 1846 a camel accom- 

 panied Mr. Horrocks on an expedition in South Austraha. A few 

 of these animals accompanied Burke and Wills, and also McKinlay, 

 on their expeditions, but they were not numerous until Sir Thomas 

 Elder (then Mr. Elder) in 1866 despatched a gentleman named 

 Stuckey to India, who shipped 124 camels from Kurrachee, 121 of 

 which were landed in South Australia in excellent condition and very 

 fat. Three died on the voyage, it is said from cold and inflam- 

 mation of the lungs. Then Mr. Elder goes on to say :— " After 



