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received into n water-tight cistern holding 3 or 4 days' flow and from which 

 the wastes could be imnijied into a tanlv wagon and carried away to a suitable 

 point of disposal. 



This report deals only with wastes from butter and cheese factories. No 

 definite conclusions were drawn as to the details of treatment of I'enovated 

 butter factory wastes. 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Text-book of veterinary medicine, J. Law (Ithaca, N. Y., 1906, vol. J,, 2. ed., 

 rev. tiiid cnh, jtp. 7 IS; lUV'.i, vol. ■'). ,i. ed., rev. and eiiL, pp. 621). — These volumes 

 have been revised and enlarged. A'olunic 4 takes up infectious diseases, san- 

 itary science, and iwlice measures, and volume 5, parasites, parasitisms, etc. 



Regarding the value of the Van Gieson and the Romanowsky malarial 

 stains for the detection of Coccidia, P. B. Hadley {C'enthl. Bakt. [etc.^, 1. 

 Al)t., Orig., »2 ( 1!I0<>), \o. /. pp. 7-'/7-/.j0).— In this paper, which is Xo. 5 of the 

 division of biology of the Ilhode Island Station, the author describes the tech- 

 nique which he has used successfully in detecting by means of the Van Gieson 

 and the Romanowsky malarial stains, certain stages of Coccidium cuuicuU found 

 in the cecum, liver, and intestines of turkeys, si)arrows, tlie common fowl, and 

 •other wild and domestic birds. 



On a new spirillum in Cercopithecus patas, A. Thiroux and W. Dufouger^ 

 iCoinpt. Rrud. Acad. Sci. [Pahs]. 1.10 (1910), No. 2, pp. 132, i33).— The authors 

 have found in a monkey (('. patas), from Kayes, in the French Sudan, a spiro- 

 ■chete which morphologically is mucli like Hpirochccta duttoni. This spirochete, 

 to which is given the name N. pithcci, is said to be the cause of a very grave 

 disease. 



Stock diseases carried by flies, A. Theiler (Transvaal Agr. Jour., 8 (1909), 

 No. 29, pp. J/l-ol). — The present knowledge of the various species of trypano- 

 • somes occurring in South Africa, namely Trypanosoma dimorphon, T. congo- 

 lense, T. theileri, and T. cvansi, and the role of flies in their transmission, is 

 here reviewed. But two of the several described species of Glossina (G. morsi- 

 tans and G. paUidipcs) are known to occur in Soutli Africa. 



" The conclusion to be drawn from the various observations and statements 

 would, therefore, be that under certain conditions tlie presence of flies stands in 

 a certain relation to game, in others that the fly does exist without the presence 

 of game. This latter fact must find some explanation by accepting that the 

 flies can live on other animals besides game, it having been established that the 

 fly, being a pure bloodsucker, requires blood to live." 



Sleeping' sickness in Ug'anda: Duration of the infectivity of the Glossina 

 palpalis after the removal of the lake-shore population, D. Bruce et al. 

 (Proc. Roy. Hoc. [London], ,S'er. B, 82 (1909), No. B .').'}2. pp. 50-63).— "It must 

 be concluded that the Glossina palpalis on the uninhabited shores of Victoria 

 Xyauza can retain their infectivity for a period of at least two years after the 

 native population has been removed." 



Notes concerning' Trypanosoma dimorphon, with a few preliminary ob- 

 servations on the trypanosomiases of southern Rhodesia, L. E. W. Bevan 

 {Vet. Jour., 66 (1910), No. Jflo, pp. 12-19, figs. 2). — An account is given of 

 preliminary observations of a disease of cattle in southern Rhodesia apparently 

 due to T. dimorphon. 



East Coast fever (Agr. Jour. Cape Good Hope, 35 (1909). No. 5, pp. 571- 

 577). — This is a resume of the steps which have been taken by the government 

 for safeguarding Cape Colony against the introduction of East Coast fever from 

 the adjoining colonies of Natal and the Transvaal. 



