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No. 64. 
ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
January 12th, 1909. 
Prof. J. Rose Braprorp, M.D., D.Sc., F.B.S., Vice-President, 
in the Chair. 
The Secretary read a Report on the additions that had been 
made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December 
1908. 
Dr. H. G. Puumuer, F.LS., F.Z.8., Pathologist to the Society, 
exhibited the Intestinal Tracts of two Snakes that had recently 
died in the Society's Gardens and called attention to the condition 
of inflammation present in them. 
Prof. E. A. Miscuts, M.A., V.P.ZS., read a paper entitled 
“ Observations on the Flagellates Parasitic in the Blood of Fresh- 
water Fishes,” in which five species of Trypanosoma and four 
species (two new) of Trypanoplasma, from fishes of the Norfolk 
Broads, were described in detail. Particular attention was paid 
to the minute structure of the parasites, and it was shown that 
it is possible to give a uniform description for the nuclear 
apparatus of both Trypanosoma and Trypanoplasma. 
Dr. W. A. Cussisetos, F.Z.S., read a paper by Prof. G. O. Sazs, 
C.M.ZS., entitled “ Zoological Results of the Third Tanganyika 
Expedition, 1904-1905.— Report on the Copepoda.” 
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