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ants of Iceland there are eleven hundred head of horned cattle, and 

 every peasant has on an average six dogs shut up in a small hovel. 

 With these animals and his stock of cattle he spends the long winter 

 nights, from which results a loss amounting in many sheep farms to 

 more than ten per cent., and the infection of the inhabitants themselves, 

 as well as their herds, with hydatids ; for, according to Eschrict, one- 

 sixth of all the inhabitants annually dying in Iceland fall victims to 

 the prevalence of hydatid disease. Leuckart remarks that the treat- 

 ment of the quack doctors who abound in the island is exactly suited 

 to keep up the epidemic ; for amongst their remedies, dog's urine and 

 fresh dog-excrement play a conspicuous part.* It is worthy of remark 

 that those sheep which are stall-fed, and consequently unattended by a 

 dog, are never or very rarely troubled with the Ccenurus cerelralis. 



The following motion, notice of which was given by Dr. T. W. Grim- 

 shaw at last meeting, was then proposed by him, and seconded by Dr. 

 Frazer :— * 



" That the Treasurer prepare for our next meeting a list of our 

 members, specifying the amount of subscription paid by each during the 

 past two years." 



The President declined to put the foregoing motion from the chair, 

 on the grounds that the order made at the November Meeting of the 

 Society, that the statement of the accounts be published, naturally in- 

 volved that a detailed list of the members of the Society be simulta- 

 neously published therewith in the Appendix ; this, he ruled, rendered 

 the present motion unnecessary. 



The motion therefore dropped. 



The Treasurer then laid before the Meeting the accounts, and his 

 list of the members, showing those who had hitherto paid their sub- 

 scriptions. 



The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Members of the 

 Society : — Alexander Sutherland, Esq., 60, .Upper f Sackville-street ; 

 and William Stawell Garnett, Esq., Williamstown, Kells. 



The Meeting then adjourned till the first Friday in February. 



* Leuckart, quoted in Cobbold, p. 283. 



