54 SCIENCE PROGRESS 



(Melbourne, 191 7), the Commonwealth Advisory Council of 

 Science and Industry have published their second Bulletin 

 dealing with Onchocerciasis in Australian cattle. Although 

 it has yet to be proved that beef infected with these worm 

 nodules is in any way injurious to man, indeed there are good 

 grounds for supposing it is not, the British authorities will 

 not allow the importation of infected parts. This entails in 

 Australia a considerable loss of money owing to the actual loss 

 of the joints, the cost of removing them, and the fall in price 

 consequent upon the disfigurement of the carcase, and in this 

 country it means a reduction of the amount of meat coming 

 in. In order to reduce this loss to a minimum and to discover 

 whether the disease could be combated in any way, a special 

 committee was appointed to enquire into its distribution, 

 means of transmission, and, if possible, preventive measures. 

 The present pamphlet gives a summary of the work so far 

 done and future lines of inquiry suggested. 



Other papers include " Uber die Entwicklung und temporale 

 Variation des Keimdotterstockes und Eibildung von Pterodina 

 patina Mull.," by Hartman (Zoolog. Jahrb. 191 7). 



A useful paper, " Notes on the Morphology of Bathynella 

 and some allied Crustacea," has been published by Caiman 

 {Quart. Journ. Micro. Sci. vol. lxii. Pt. 4, Dec. 191 7). The form, 

 a number of new details in the anatomy of which are here 

 added, is of importance as it is a representative of the Syncarida, 

 a group commonly found in the Carboniferous but represented 

 now only by this species and others from Australia and Tasmania. 

 Compared with its allies, Bathynella is either primitive or de- 

 generate, and is of small size — one of the smallest of the Mala- 

 costraca. Until its rediscovery in 1914 comparatively little 

 was known of it. 



Other papers include : " South African Talitridse," by 

 Stebbing (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. Dec. 191 7) ; " Note on the 

 Structure of the Maxillary Gland of Cypridina Hilgendorfii " 

 (Journ. of Morph. vol. xxix. Sept. 191 7): "On an apparently 

 Undescribed English Saltatorial Mite (Speleorchestes poduroides 

 n.sp.), belonging to the family Cupodidae (Prostigmata) ," by 

 Hirst (Journ. Zool. Research, Nov. 191 7); "Description of a 

 New Species of Isopoda of the Genus Paridotea Stebbing," 

 and " Descriptions of Some Further new Variations of British 

 Woodlice," both by Collinge (ibid.) ; " Notes on Myriapoda : 



