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OBITUARY. 
From several years’ observation, M. Megnin says that this curi¬ 
ous worm develops and propagates as follows: 
1. The egg, in a damp but cold medium, preserves its vital¬ 
ity for years. 
2. The embrios contained in the eggs develop and hatch at a 
temperature of 20 to 25 degrees. 
3. The development and hatching is much more rapid when 
the damp medium is nearer the temperature of the body of a 
bird, say 40 deg. 
4. The embryos of Singatnus, which are anguilluliform, may 
live in water of ordinary temperature for several days, and even 
weeks, but undergo no changes. 
5. Birds are contaminated in absorbing the embryos contained 
in their food and drink. 
6. Birds are contaminated also in directly absorbing adult 
worms full of eggs which are expectorated, worms which then 
look like small earthy lombricoids, or better to the red larvae of 
tipulse of which gallinauous are so fond. 
7. Larvae of ants or other insects which are eat by birds, do 
not contain embryos of syngamus, and cannot be a cause of pro¬ 
pagation. 
8. Garlic and asafoetida mixed with the food, and salicylic 
water are the best agents to destroy the embryos and stop the 
disease .—Gazette Medicate. 
OBITUARY. 
Peter Nostrand, D.V.S., who graduated in 1871, died suddenly 
on the 9th of January, at the age of 41. 
