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(Song) ‘ Will you enter my house or not ? 
Will you remain crying ? 
Give me my hemp flower. 
Go to your parent’s home.’ 
20. Then she entered the house, but did not want to cook the food. 
21. Then he said : 
(Song) ‘ Will you cook or not ? 
Will you remain standing ? 
Give me my hemp flower. 
Go to your parent’s home.’ 
. Then she cooked the food. 
. After eating and drinking, he told her to spread a mat. 
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(Song) ‘ Will you spread the mat or not ? 
Will you remain standing ? 
Give me my hemp flower. 
Go to your parent’s home.’ ; 
24. Afterwards she spread the mat, and they lay down to sleep. 
25, Early the next morning they both went to her parent’s home. 
26. The mouse was darting about saluting every one. 
27. Whilst he was engaged saluting he fell into some hot rice-broth, 
and after struggling a time he died. 
The possible Infectivity of the Oyster, and wpon the Green Disease 
in Oysters. By Professor Rupert W. Boyce, M.B., M.R.C.N., 
and Professor W. A. HerpMan, D.Sc., F.R.S., University College, 
Tiverpool; being the First Report of the Commuttee, consisting of 
Professor W. A. HErpMAN (Chairman), Professor R. BoYcE 
(Secretary), Mr. G. C. Bourne, and Professor C. S. SHERRINGTON, 
appointed to report on the Elucidation of the Life Conditions of the 
Oyster under Normal and Abnormal Environment, including in the 
latter the effect of sewage matter and pathogenic organisms. 
Ar the last meeting of the British Association, Ipswich, 1895, we brought 
forward, as a paper ‘On Oysters and Typhoid’ laid before Section D, 
some results based upon the artificial feeding and cultivation of oysters 
in sewage-contaminated sea-water. We concluded that the laying down 
of oysters in localities where there was a constant change of water, by 
tidal current or otherwise, was beneficial to the health of the oyster, and 
we surmised that by methods similar to those employed in the bassins de 
dégorgement of the French ostreiculturist, where the oysters are carefully 
subjected to a natural process of cleaning, oysters previously contaminated 
with sewage could be freed of pathogenic organisms or their products ‘ 
without spoiling the oyster. 
Nature of Present Report.—The present report, which is still incom- 
plete, deals almost exclusively with the bacteriology of the oyster and the 
behaviour of the Bacillus typhosus in sea-water and in the oyster. The 
subject of the green coloration in oysters will be treated more fully in a 
subsequent report. The questions investigated are the following :— 
I. The identification and differentiation of the Bacillus typhosus and 
B. coli communis. 
