io6 abstracts: apparatus 



the article also contains a large list of new host records and a bibliog- 

 raphy of recent works. W. P. D. 



ENTOMOLOGY. — Medical entomology a vital factor in the prosectttion 

 of the War. W. Dwight Pierce. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 20: 

 No. 5. Pp. 91-104. October 3, 1918. 



The author brings out in this article the importance of entomo- 

 logical work in the study of diseases showing that the entomologist, 

 parasitologist, and physician are all needed to work out their par- 

 ticular phases of the problems of disease transmission. Seven types 

 of relationships of insects, disease organisms, and vertebrate hosts are 

 defined. Various types of transmission of disease organisms by in- 

 sects are also illustrated. The author brings out especially the im- 

 portance of insect-transmitted diseases to armies and finally mentions 

 a number of problems which still remain to be solved. W. D. P. 



ANTHROPOLOGY.— /CM/^nm tales. Franz Boas, together with 

 texts collected by Alexander Francis Chamberlain. Bur. Amer. 

 Ethnol. Bull. 59. Pp.387. 



This comprises 77 texts in the Kutenai Indian language with English 

 translations, 25 with both interlinear and free translations. Forty-four 

 were collected in 1891 by the late Prof. Alexander F. Chamberlain of 

 Clark University, the remainder by Professor Boas in 1914. They 

 are followed by 32 pages of Abstracts and Comparative Notes and 

 Kutenai-English and English-Kutenai vocabularies. Kutenai con- 

 stitutes one of the smaller linguistic stocks, Kitunahan, and embraces 

 but two closely related dialects. The material is therefore of unusual 

 value to the student of American languages, while the comparative 

 notes render it equally important to the folklorist and those interested 

 in comparative mythology. J. R. Swanton. 



APPARATUS. — Calorimetric methods and devices. Walter P. White. 

 Journ. Amer. Chem. Soc. 40: 1887-1900. December, 1918. 



In this paper various forms of jacket covers (and of stirrer mountings) 

 are described and compared. R. B. S- 



APPARATUS. — Some points regarding calorimeter efficiency. Walter 

 P. White. Journ. Franklin Inst. 186:279-287. September, 1918. 

 This discussion has special reference to the precision required and the 

 conditions prevalent in commercial work. R. B. S. 



