naming the similar parasite of the jerboa after me, more especially 
as lie îs apparently uncler tire impression that i was convinced 
mat tnese curious rod-like bodies in the red oells were examples 
ot oasophilic degèneration. May i point out that this is not alto- 
gether the case. At first i was inclined to tlnnk they niight be 
parasitic in nature and submitted préparations to Professor Lave- 
ran. On his declaring them to be mereiy examples of basophilia 
i oowed to the opinion of one wdio can speak with sucli authority 
on blood conditions. Meanvvhile Dr. Graham Smith’s paper on 
the inclusions in the érythrocytes of tue mole appeared. it at once 
struck me that the appearances lie described with such care clo- 
sely resembled those 1 had seen in the jerboa. 
Accordingly if Dr. Brumpt will kindly refer to Plate XI of the 
Second Report of these Laboratories pubiished in 1906 lie will 
find the rod-like bodies illustrated and accorded the following des¬ 
cription. 
u Two of the corpuscles exhibit what is eitiier granular baso¬ 
philia or the condition recently described in the érythrocytes of 
moles b y Graham Smith ». i w r ould also refer him to the follow- 
ing passage from p. 112 of that Report. 
(( At first sight the appearances presented seemed to me rather 
different from the granular basophilia found in gerbils, and a 
slide was sent to Professor La ver an . Ile gave il as his opinion 
that the condition was mereiy one of basic degeneration. Later 
the free forms were seen, and Dr. Graham Smith’s paper on a 
new blood parasite of the mole appeared. The photomicrographs 
of infected mole’s blood presented an appearance precisely simi¬ 
lar to what had been seen in the blood of jerboas. 1 drew Pro¬ 
fessor Laveran’s attention to this, and lie replied that he regar- 
ded Dr. Graham Smith’s préparations, some of which he had 
seen, as mereiy containing a pseudo-haemamoeba, and that he 
saiv no reason to alter his opinion regarding the blood condition 
in the jerboa. 1 also wrote to Professor Nuttall on the subject, 
but hâve not heard from him. It is difficult to aocount for the free 
dots and rods which hâve evidently escaped from infected éry¬ 
throcytes, but at présent one need not enter more fully into the 
matter, which, however, is of some interest, and seems worthy 
of mention. » 
In our Fourth Report which has just appeared I hâve again in- 
serted a drawing of these bodies showing them both within and 
