A.C :2 1910 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



Series B. Vol. 82. No. B 558. 



BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



Trypanosome Diseases of Domestic Animals in Uganda. — I. Trypanosoma 



Pecorum. (Plates 1 1 and 1 2) 4^8 



Elxperiments to ascertain if Cattle may act as a Reservoir of the Virus of 



Sleeping Sickness (Trypanosoma gambiense) ...... 480 



" Muhinyo, " a Disease of Natives in Uganda ...... 485 



The Natural Food of Glossina palpalis ....... 490 



Mechanical Transmission of Sleeping Sickness by the Tsetse Fly . . 498 



By Colonel Sir DAVID BRUCE. C.B.. F.R.S.. Army Medical 

 Service ; Captains A. E. HAMERTON. D.S.O., and H. R. BATEMAN. 

 Royal Army Medical Corps ; and Captain F. P. MACKIE. Indian Medical 

 Service. (Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society, 1908-10.) 



The Chromaphil Tissues and the Adrenal Medulla. By SWALE VINCENT, 

 M.D.. D.Sc, F.R.SS. E. and C, Professor of Physiology in the University of 



Manitoba. (Plate 13) 503 



On the Occurrence of a Mesocoelic Recess in the Human Brain, and its 

 Relation to the Sub- Commissural Organ of Lower Vertebrates ; with 

 special reference to the Distribution of Reissner's Fibre in the Vertebrate 

 Series and its possible Function. By ARTHUR DENDY, D.Sc, F.R.S.. 

 Professor of Zoology in King's College (University of London), and 

 G. E. NICHOLLS, B.Sc, Assistant- Lecturer and Demonstrator in Zoology 

 in King's College. (Plate 14) 5 15 



Autotoxaemia and Infection. By E. C. HORT, F.R.C.P. Ed.. Assistant 



Physician to the Italian Hospital 5^9 



The Blood Volume of Mammals as Determined by Experiments upon Rabbits, 

 Guinea-pigs, and Mice, and its Relationship to the Body Weight and to 

 the Surface Area expressed in a Formula. By GEORGES DREYER, 

 M.A., M.D., and WILLIAM RAY, B.Sc., M.B. (Abstract) . . 545 



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