a22 Proceedings, &c., 1867. 
give chloroform, keeping the patient on the verge of the shadow of 
death, also he would administer brandy, and send hydrogen and 
carbon into the blood. Had inspected the blood of the patient that 
died from snake-bite. The blood possessed colourless corpuscles, 
from the water used in the magenta solution. Did not see animal- 
cule at all. In fact, differed from Professor Halford as to any simi- 
larity betweeu blood poisoning and cholera, and thought the Royal 
Society of Victoria was not the place where the question should be 
discussed. / 
The President dissented from the last remark, and Mr. Ford 
thought the Royal Society was the most fitting place for such a 
discussion to take place. 
Mr. Andrews, Mr. Hickie and the President, joined 1 in the dis- 
cussion. 
Mr. G. 8. Lang, gave two instances from his own experience 
where animal poison had been absorbed into the skin, one by the 
licking of a lizard, the other by the sting of a hornet. 
Dr. Day (of Geelong) thought that, like the rust in wheat, there 
was a vegetable germ, common in India, which absorbed itself into 
the system, and so produced the disease. 
Mr. Ashworth spoke in favor of Professor Halford’s observations. 
Dr. Thomas contended the proper way to examine blood was with 
serum, and not under water. Physiologists differed about the 
number of white to red corpuscles, and so far as the experiments 
had gone, he was not at all satisfied with the conclusions arrived at. 
Professor Halford, in reply, said he had spent two days in his 
experiments, and was not likely to have mistaken cells for white 
corpuscles. He would mention that the heat of the body increased 
after death from cholera and yellow fever, a man weighing 150lbs, 
would rise in-temperature 8° or 9° after death. He trusted that the 
discussion would Jead to a more perfect examination of the blood, 
and thus good would spring from the paper having been read before 
the Society. 
(Signed) C. D’Ovitey H. APLIN. 
12th August, 1867. - 
ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, 12th August, 186%. 
Mr. C. D’Oyley H. Aplin in the chair. 
Professor Halford briefly drew the attention of members to the 
remarks made at the last meeting on the subject of the Royal 
Society not being the place fitted for discussing the paper he had the 
honour to read. 
The following contributions were announced :—‘‘ Proceedings of 
the Royal Geographical Society,” No. 11, Vol. Xi. “Journal of the 
Linnean Society,” fur April. ‘Journal of the Statistical and Social 
