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been inclined to suspect some genetic relation. Comparing 
Pagenstecher’s and Perroncito’s figures of Cercaria incisti- 
data and Distoma luteum respectively, the resemblance is 
very striking; and, moreover, the size of the sexually 
immature fluke from the water-snail only about one fourth 
of the worm from the frog. Obviously, also, Perroncito’s 
pupal trematode, though only called a tailless Cercaria, is 
structurally somewhat more highly differentiated than the 
so-called Distoma lateum of the snail. It might be worth 
while to compare Perroncito’s Cercaria with the larval Dis¬ 
toma squamula, which resides in capsules in the muscles and 
beneath the skin of the common frog {Dana temporarid). 
If these forms be identical, then, I suppose, that the sexually 
mature worm resides in the intestine of the polecat. On 
this subject Zeller’s paper in Siebold and Kolliker’s Zeit- 
schrift (Bd. xvii) should be consulted.-—T. S. C. 
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By John Henry Steel, M.R.C.V.S., F.Z.S., Demonstrator 
of Anatomy at the Royal Veterinary College. 
Summary .— M. Jolly on “The Treatment of Charbon by 
Intravenous Injection of Iodine.” Herr Feser on “The 
Transmissibility of Charbon to Fish.” MM. Arloing , 
Thomas, Cornevin, and Perroncito , on “ Quarter Ill in its 
relation to Arthrax.” Prof. Perroncito on “Fowl Cholera.” 
MM. Toussaint and Bollinger on “The Transmissibility of 
Tuberculosis bovina.” Dr. Willems of Hasselt, “ Prelimi¬ 
nary Note on the Bacterium of Pleuro-pneumonia Contagiosa 
Bovina.” 
M. Jolly has recently attempted the treatment of splenic 
fever by means of intravenous injection. M. Bouley sum¬ 
marises his work in the Chronique of the Pecueil for 15th 
May, 1880. A typical outbreak of splenic fever took place 
in the Commune of Gien. In one case M. Jolly observed a 
black swelling surrounded with serous engorgement occupy¬ 
ing the whole of the intermaxillary space. The true nature 
of these cases was proved by inoculations conducted by 
MM. Jolly and Chauveau independently. 
In 1875 the Pecueil contained the results that Stanis 
Cezard obtained by means of iodine medication in charbon ; 
this determined M. Jolly to experiment similarly. In 
