ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. xli, 
ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER 4, 1903. 
The General Monthly Meeting of the Society was held 
at the Society’s House, No. 5 Hlizabeth-street North, on 
Wednesday evening, November 4th, 1903. 
F. B. GUTHRIE, F.1.C., F.C.S., President, in the Chair. 
Highteen members were present. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
Messrs. G. H. HALLIGAN and T. F. FURBER were 
appointed Scrutineers, and Mr. C. O. BURGE deputed to 
preside at the Ballot Box. 
A quorum not being present, the ballot could not be held. 
The certificate of one candidate was read for the third 
time, of two for the second time, and of three for the first 
time. 
Highty-seven volumes, 111 parts, 6 reports and 3 pam- 
phiets, total 207, received as donations since the last 
meeting were laid upon the table and acknowledged, includ- 
ing 79 volumes presented by the Bureau Central Météoro- 
logique, Paris, through the kind offices of Mr. G. H. KNIBBS 
when on the Continent. 
THE FOLLOWING PAPERS WERE READ. 
1 “‘On some further observations on the Life-history of 
Filaria immitis, Leidy,’’ by THos. L. BANCROFT, M.B., 
Kdin. ‘ 
In this paper Dr. Bancroft, (who has at various times 
during the past fifteen years worked at filarial diseases of 
the human subject, the dog, and birds), has detailed the 
results of final work on this subject. He has succeeded, 
through the agency of mosquitoes, in transmitting Filaria 
immitis from an infected to several healthy dogs, and has 
also observed the manner in which the young filaria leaves 
d —Nov. 4, 1903. 
