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at the end of the seventh week, with illy defined symptoms of par- 

 alytic rabies. The result of an inoculation from this rabbit is 

 doubtful. No. II. One rabbit died at the end of six and a half 

 and the other at seven weeks, with symptoms similar to paralytic 

 rabies. The rabbits inoculated from these have shown no symp- 

 toms. No. III. Gave a negative result. No. IV. One rabbit 

 died after four and one-half weeks. Second inoculation negative. 

 These experiments are too few and imperfect, as yet, to be of 

 value beyond indicating a line upon which experiments may be 

 conducted during the coming year, but the work will necessarily 

 be very slow, as from two to three months is required to complete 

 a single series, and a most careful control will have to be exercised 

 to guard against possible sources of error. 



