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are not infective. They only become so after a period of delay, 

 in which certain developmental changes take place. These 

 changes proceed more rapidly in dry than in wet faeces. Pre- 

 vention depends upon the systematic periodical removal and 

 destruction by burning of all pellets and contaminated bedding, 

 and the use of some fluid which will destroy such oocysts as 

 remain in the hutch. 



Although several cases of coccidial infection in man have been 

 recorded, Dobell maintains that in none of these cases is Eimeria 

 stiedce the causal agent. There would appear therefore to be no 

 risk of infection to man. 



The cystic stages of the tapeworms of the dog appear to occur 

 chiefly in those rabbits fed with dandelions and other green 

 stuffs collected from the roadsides, where the vegetation is 

 especially liable to contamination with faeces of dogs which have 

 acquired their infections from eating uncooked rabbit offal. 



Professor IT. M. Lefroy, F.Z.S., exhibited a series of lantern- 

 slides, from photographs taken during the recent visit to the 

 Zoological Gardens, Sydney, N. S. Wales. 



November 19th, 1918. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following Report on the Additions to 

 the Society's Menagerie during the month of October, 1918: — ■ 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of October were 22 in number. Of these 8 were acquired 

 by presentation, and 14 were deposited. 



The following may be specially mentioned : — 



1 Black-cheeked Cercopitheque (Cercointhecus ascanhis), from 

 the Lower Congo, presented by Chevalier E. Carton de Wiart on 

 October 2nd. 



2 Mississippi Alligators (Alligator mississippiensis), from North 

 America, deposited on October 28th. 



1 Reticulated Python (Python reticulatus), from the East 

 Indies, deposited on October 11th. 



Special attention may also be directed to a captured German 

 Carrier-Pigeon Loft, with 35 of the captured Pigeons, taken by 

 the Canadians at Folies, France, on August 9th, and presented 

 to the Society on October 30th by the British Armies in France, 

 at the suggestion of the War Office. 



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