206 ENTO-PAEASITES AND HYGIENE. 



MARCH 26, 1895— EIGHTH REGULAR MEETING. 



Chairman Burgess presiding, and about thirty-tive 

 members and guests present. Mr. W. C. Albro presented 

 a paper on the question "Can Currency be made Elas- 

 tic?" 



APRIL 9, 1895— NINTH REGULAR MEETING. 



Chairman Burgess presided ; about fifty members and 

 guests present. Dr. Theodor Neumann gave an ad- 

 dress, illustrated with drawing and microscopic slides, 

 upon : 



ENTO-PARASITES AND HYGIENE. 



BY DR. THEODOR NEUMANN, 



In public as well as in private life, many persons not 

 anxious to work honestly and hard try to get food and 

 shelter wherever they are able to find those necessities 

 of life, or where they meet good-hearted people willing to 

 furnish them with accom modations. In the same way we 

 find in the animal kingdom many forms of life which do 

 not earn their living by honest work, but live on the prop- 

 erty and the income of others. Both kinds, which pre- 

 sent in their whole way of doing and living many points 

 of analogy, are called parasites, and have been known 

 since times immemorial more for their disagreeable than 

 their pleasant qualities. This is easily explained, since 

 their behavior is little esteemed, and they stand morally 

 as well as physically on a very low level. In the comedies 

 of the old Greeks and Romans the napaGito^ plays a 

 rather woeful part, being the type of eternal hunger, of 

 greediness and of low character ; he is the target for the 

 mockery and the jokes of all decent people. And what 

 do we see when we look upon the parasites of the ani- 

 mal kingdom \ Are they not also beings which, to ob- 



