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cial Reference to Their Action on the Various Carbohydrates, by A. M. Besemer 

 (pp. 26G-2S2) (E. S. II., 37, p. 583) ; A Study of the Fermenting Properties of 

 Bacterium pullorum and B. sanguinarium, by S. A. Goldberg (pp. 283-293) 

 (E. S. K., 37, p. 483) ; and Amyloclastic Activity in the Domestic Animals With 

 Special Reference to the Saliva of the Horse, by C. E. Hayden (pp. 294-310). 



Eleventh annual report of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, North 

 Dakota, 1917, W. L. IIiciiakus et al. {Ann. Rpt. Live Stock Sanit. Bd. N. 

 Dak., 11 (1917), pp. J/0). — This reports upon the occurrence of and work with 

 the important infectious disea.-.es of live stock, particularly tuberculosis. 



[P.,eport of the] veterinary division, O. H. Eliason (Wis. Dept. Agr. Bui. 

 10 (1916), pp. 83-103, figs. 5). — This report on the occurrence of and work with 

 the more important diseases during the year deals particularly with tubercu- 

 losis. A discussion of a plan for accredited tuberculin-tested herds is included. 



Report of proceeding's under the diseases of animals acts, with returns of 

 the exports and imports of animals for the year 1916, D. S. Prentice (Dept. 

 Agr. and Tech. Instr. Ireland, Rpt. Diseases Anim., 1916, pp. 34). — The usual 

 annual report (E. S. R., 37, p. 577). 



Report of the civil veterinary department, Assam, for the year 1916-17, 

 W. Harris (Rpt. Civ. Vet. Dept. Assam, 1916-17, pp. 2+10).— The usual annual 

 report (E. S. R., 36, p. 879). 



Annual report on the civil veterinary department. United Provinces, for 

 the year ending March 31, 1917, S. G. M. Hickey (Ann. Rpt. Civ. Vet. Dept. 

 United Prov., 1917, pp. [28]). — This report includes data on veterinary instruc- 

 tion and on the occurrence and treatment of infectious disea.ses. 



Report on the civil veterinary department (including the Insein Vet- 

 erinary School), Burma, for the year ended March 31, 1917, G. H. Evans 

 (Ann. Rpt. Civ. Vet. Dept. Burma, 1917, pp. 8+13, pi. 1). — The usual annual 

 report (E. S. R., 3G, p. 879). 



Annual report of the veterinary department for the year ended March 31, 

 1916, R. J. Stordy (Dept. Agr. Brit. East Africa Ann. Rpt. 1915-16, pp. 62- 

 71). — The usual annual report on the occurrence of and work with contagious 

 diseases of domestic animals in British East Africa. 



Reports of the National Serum Institute, Holland, 1911—1915, J. Poels 

 (Vcrslag Rijkssertiminriclit. [Holland], 1911, pp. 84; 1912-1915, pp. 150). — 

 These are the reports of the institution for 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, and 1915 

 containing the usual data as previously noted (E. S. R., 29, p. 377). 



Pharmacological studies of the ipecac alkaloids and some synthetic deriva- 

 tives of cephaelin. — III, Stvxdies on protozoocidal and bactericidal action, 

 A. L. Waters, W. F. Baker, and E. W. Koch (Jour. Pharmacol, and Expt. 

 Ther., 10 (1917), No. 5, pp. 341-364) .—Tests of the amebacidal action, entame- 

 bacidal effects, action on paramecia, and bactericidal action of the above- 

 mentioned drugs are reported. 



" Emetin hydrochlorid in solution of 1 : 1,000 when acting on water amebas 

 for one hour, or in solution of 1 : 5,000 acting for three hours, destroyed many 

 of these organisms but was not uniformly amebacidal. . . . Emetin hydro- 

 chlorid in solutions as strong as 1 : 100 is not rapidly destructive to Entamceba 

 buccalis, in some cases not killing in one hour. 



" The propyl and isoamyl ethers of cephaelin are stronger than emetin as 

 amebacides, but their action on water amebas or E. huccalis can not be used 

 satisfactorily as a comparative measure of this action. Methylating cephaelin 

 to form emetin is known to increase the entamebacidal action as well as the 

 protozoocidal action toward paramecia, and the substitution of the methyl 

 group by ethyl, propyl, butyl, isoamyl, or allyl further intensifies this action. 

 The propyl, butyl, and isoampl ethers of cephaelin possess much stronger proto- 



