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good large volume of " Proceedings" than that it should live on, daily 

 decaying through inanition caused by the want of scientific food. In 

 order that he might call the attention of the Council to the great im- 

 portance of publishing, and to the wishes of the Society itself on this 

 subject, he would, with the permission of the President, and he hoped 

 with the sanction of all the Members present, move the following Reso- 

 lution : — 



" That Mr. Andrews's paper l On the Occurrence of some rare Pish 

 on the Irish Coast' be referred to the Council, with a request that it 

 may be published in extenso, and illustrated in the Journal of the So- 

 ciety." 



Mr. Dixon seconded this resolution, which, being put from the chair, 

 was declared by the President to have passed unanimously. 



The meeting adjourned to the first Thursday in March. 



THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1867. 

 Robert Callwell, M. R. I. A., President, in the Chair. 



The previous Minutes having been duly confirmed, the following 

 paper, in the author's absence, was read by Dr. E. Perceval Wright : — 



On Bothriocephalic lattjs, or Broad Tapeworm — tts Occurrence 

 in Ireland ; with Remarks on its claim for admission into 



THE LIST OF OUR INDIGENOUS FAUNA. By Dr. WlLLIAM PRAZER, 



M. R. I. A., &c. ; Hon. Member Montreal Medico- Chirurgical 

 Society. 



Tapeworms are of rather rare occurrence in Ireland, though both Tcenia 

 solium and T. mediocanellata are met with, the latter being compara- 

 tively seldom seen — or perhaps it woufd be more correct to say, seldom 

 recognised ; for the first instance in which it was detected was recorded 

 by myself in " The Medical Press and Circular" a few months since. 

 I have reason to believe, however, that it has heretofore been con- 

 founded with the T. solium, and is far more common than generally 

 supposed throughout the country. There can be no question that the 

 broad Tapeworm , or Rothriocephalus, is by far the rarest of this class 

 of Entozoa ; for the fourth recorded case of its having been discovered 

 in Ireland was described by me in the pages of the " Press" for April 

 10, 1867. The present case is, therefore, the fifth instance where it 

 has fallen under medical observation; and it possesses peculiar interest, 

 .from the fact that, whilst in almost every patient infested by this ani- 

 mal there were grounds for ascribing the vermination to some foreign 

 and Continental source, the patient from whom the present example 

 was obtained had never travelled beyond the limits of Great Britain 

 and Ireland. So far as can be ascertained, all the Bothriocephali yet 

 expelled were referable to B. latus : the species B. cordatus — common 



