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Dr. Gorham: In regard to the disease which Mr. Meeham 
spoke of as killing so many of his frogs, it is undoubtedly a 
very well-known disease which occurs among frogs whenever 
considerable numbers are kept in confinement. I have had 
cases of that disease among frogs that I have kept for some time. 
I might say also, that a very careful study of the disease, from all 
standpoints, has been made and published within the past vear, 
by Mr. H. Emerson and Mr. Charles Norris, in the Journal of 
Experimental Medicine, New York, 1905, VII, 32, the subject 
of the article being “ ‘Red-leg,’ ” an Infectious Disease of Frogs.” 
The article is a complete one, and describes the disease very care- 
fully, and suggests remedies and methods of prevention. 
Mr. Meehan: Can you recall one of those remedies ? 
A. I don‘t remember the remedies. 
Q. Is it an infusorial trouble ? 
A. A bacterial disease. 
Mr. Titeomb: In what stage of development do you make 
your distribution ? 
Mr. Meehan: At first we distributed in tadpole form, but 
we abandoned that and we now distribute in frog form only. 
The tail may still be there, but the legs may also be present and 
the frogs have abandoned the water altogether, and use only the 
wet moss. 
In shipping, I ought to add, that it is very necessary if you 
use the cans the same as we do, that is, with a single round hole 
in the top, to put over the top of the can a piece of mosquito 
netting, or the frogs will crawl out. 
Mr. Nathan R. Buller: All of the reports have been very 
favorable in regard to the successful shipment of frogs. 
Mr. Dinsmore: I remember reading some years ago quite a 
lengthy description on frog culture, in which the conclusion 
reached was, that there was no trouble in rearing the tadpoles 
in unlimited numbers, but you could not supply food for the 
frogs. Now why can you not supply the frogs with the super- 
fluous number of tadpoles, if, as the writer says, you can get the 
tadpoles in unlimited numbers ? 
