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when used with a fifteen cent lamp, which is quite as good as can be 
got, it makes an excellent instrument/’ 
The thanks of the meeting were given to the authors of these com- 
munications. 
Surgeon V. Gunson Thorpe’s paper “ On the Rotifera of China ” 
was then read by Prof. Bell (see p. 145). 
Prof. Bell said that this paper was placed upon their Agenda at the 
preceding meeting, but was unable to be taken then from want of timo 
at disposal, and it seemed too important to pass over, as it formed a 
valuable addition to their knowledge on the subject. 
The President said they were often inclined to envy those who had 
the opportunities of seeing these things in their native conditions, and 
the paper to which they had just listened must have made many of them 
wish that they were able to see the living specimens instead of having 
to be content with the drawings and descriptions. 
Mr. C. Rousselet said it was very difficult to criticize such a paper 
from simply hearing it read, but he thought Mr. Thorpe was certainly 
very fortunate in being able to explore such virgin ground as China 
in search of these objects. Hitherto it had been thought that the 
distribution of the Rotifera was so general, since even in America and 
Australia no particularly new or striking forms had been met with, but 
here Mr. Thorpe seemed to have come across some which were so 
remarkable that new distinctive characters were required to bring them 
within the genera already known. If those gentlemen who, like 
Mr. Thorpe, had these opportunities, would devote some of their spare 
time and attention to the objects within their reach no doubt many more 
new forms would reward their efforts. 
The President regarded this communication as one of special interest 
which they would be very glad to see in the Journal. 
A vote of thanks to Surgeon Thorpe was unanimously passed. 
Dr. G. M. Giles’s paper “ On certain Cystic Worms which simulate 
the Appearances of Tuberculosis ” was read by Prof. Bell. 
Dr. R. G. Hebb said, in reply to a question from the President, that 
he had never met with any of the worms described, in England, but he 
had, he believed, read of instances of nematoid worms being found in the 
human subject, and thought there was a record of the fact in the 
Journal of the Society, in a paper by Dr. Heneage Gibbs. He had 
found nodules in the lungs of sheep, and although unable to find the 
worm he had supposed it to be the cause of what he found. He did not 
think it was met with in the human kind. 
Prof. Bell thought that what Dr. Giles had said in the beginning of 
his paper was of considerable importance, because if the large number of 
animals which were killed as being tuberculous were really not so it 
might be possible to prevent their destruction. There was, he imagined, 
a general dislike amongst most persons — except such as were fond of 
high game — to eating meat which swarmed with parasites of any kind. 
If it was correct that the cattle in India, which were reputed to be 
