PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



Series B. Vol. 84. No. B 570. 



BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



The Experimental Transmission of Goitre from Man to Animals. By 

 ROBERT MCCARRISON, M.D., M.R.C.P. (Lond.), Captain, Indian Medical 

 Service ; Agency Surgeon, Gilgit, Kashmere. (Plate 1 *) . . 1 55 



The Pathogenic Agent in a Case of Human Trypanosomiasis in Nyasaland. 



By HUGH S. STANNUS and WARRINGTON YORKE. (Plate 2) . 156 



Note on Developmental Forms of Trypanosoma brucei (pecaudi) in the 

 Internal Organs, Axillary Glands and Bone-marrow of the Gerbil 

 (Gerbillus pygargus). By GEORGE BUCHANAN, Senior Laboratory 

 Assistant, Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories, Gordon College, 

 Khartoum. (Plate 3) 1C1 



A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Protozoa of the Soil. By 

 T. GOODEY, M.Sc (Birm.), Mackinnon Student of the Royal Society, 

 Rothamsted Experimental Station. (Plate 4) . . . . U65 



The Morphology of Trypanosoma evansi (Steel). By Colonel Sir DAVID 



BRUCE, C.B., F.R.S., Army Medical Service. (Plate 5) . . .181 



On the Action of Senecio Alkaloids and the Causation of Hepatic Cirrhosis 



in Cattle. (Preliminary Note.) By ARTHUR R. CUSHNY, F.R.S. 188 



The Viability of Human Carcinoma in Animals. By Major C. L. WILLIAMS^ 

 M.D., I.M.S. (ret.) 



On Ceratopora, the Type of a New Family of Alcyonaria. By SYDNEY J. 

 HICKSON, F.R.S., Professor of Zoology in the University of Manchester. 

 (Plate 6) 



On Reflex Inhibition of the Knee Flexor. By C. S. SHERRINGTON, F.R.S., 

 and S. C. M. SOWTON 



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