﻿President's Address. 



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Dr Lovell Gulland I am indebted for valuable information 

 regarding the parasites of man, creatures which one is 

 pleased to think are less prevalent than formerly. When 

 the Cestodes of our fishes, birds, and ferce naturce generally 

 are known, this list will probably be trebled. 



Schistocephalus soUdus, Crepl. — From body cavity of stickle- 

 back, Loch Leven, June 1890 (T. Scott, 9th Eep. Fish. Bd. Scot., 

 pt. iii. p. 273). 



Bothi'iocephalus latus, Brems., '? — Several (larvae) in alimentary 

 canal of trout, Loch Leven, June 1890 (T. Scott, I.e.). Dv 

 Gulland has never seen this species in the human subject here, and 

 considers that when it does occur it must certainly be imported. 



B. punctatus, Rud. — Several from bullheads {Coitus scorpius), 

 North Berwick, Oct. 1908 : identified for me by Dr W. Nicoll. 



Diplocotyle, sp.? — From trout, Loch Leven, April 1904 (Dr 

 Ashworth). 



Tetrarhynchus reptans, Rud. {Gymnorhynclms horridus, J. 

 Goodsir) — In liver of short sun-fish captured at Culross in 1840 

 (J. Goodsir, Edin. New Phil. Jour., xxxi. (1841) p. 9). In 

 Hver and lateral muscles of short sun-fish captured off" 

 Anstruther, 6th Sept. 1856 (T. 8. Cobbold, Intellectual Observer, 

 ii. (1863) p. 82). 



Tcenia serrata, Goeze — Common. From dogs, Edinburgh, 

 June, etc., also from cat ; from dog, Pentlands, March. Larvse 

 from mesentery of rabbit (Ashworth). 



T. saginata, Goeze (mediocanellata, Kiich.) — From Edinburgh 

 patients (A-shworth). Dr Gulland writes me that as regards the 

 Cestodes in man this is the most common here, "and has been 

 distinctly on the increase since we began to feed our phthisis 

 patients on raw beef." 



T. solium, Rud. — Of this Dr Gulland says, ^'Solium is very 

 much rarer ; in fact, almost unknown here." 



T. crassicollis, Rud. — From cat, Edinburgh (Dr MacDougall). 



T. ccenurus, Kiich. — I have seen no specimen of this species, 

 but it must occur seeing that "staggers," the disease which the 

 larva causes in sheep, is occasionally in evidence. 



T. serialis, Baill. — Cysts from groin region of rabbit (Ash- 

 worth). 



T. echinococcus, v. Sieb. — Is " occasionally seen, but mostly in 

 hospital cases from the country. It is very rare indeed in Edin- 

 burgh people. Most of the hospital cases come from the north, 

 from Shetland, perhaps, in particular" (Dr Gulland, in lit.). 



T. pectinata, Goeze — Common in wild rabbits. Pentlands, 

 August (from W. F. Little) ; identification confirmed by Dr 

 A. E. Shipley. 



Anoplocephala perfoliata, Goeze — Occasionally troubles horses 

 in the district. Dr Ashworth has shown me a local specimen. 



Dipylidium caninum, L. (cucumerina, Bloch) — Common in 

 dogs. From terrier, Edinburgh, July, and from cat, August. 



Hymenolepis, sp.'? — Dr Shipley, Cambridge, tells me he has a 



