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i<e: (6) when a disease is noted in one country notice shall he given to the others in 

 a form specified by the convention : (7) each country shall publish an official bulletin 

 ■noting the localities, etc., infected ; (8) a sanitary veterinary control shall he exercised 

 by official agents at ports of entry ; (9) animals and animal products, etc., entering or 

 crossing a country shall be accompanied by certificates of origin ; (10) international 

 official relations shall be established between veterinarians of bordering countries; 

 (11) interdiction of entry shall be permitted only (a) when certain epizootic diseases 

 reign on the frontier or the interior of a neighboring country, and (In when the sani- 

 tary measures of that country are inefficient or badly applied; (12 I in order to admit 

 of free movement between bordering countries animals shall be in conditions anal- 

 ogous to those required for importation. These conditions shall be the subject of 

 special agreement between the confederate governments. 



A new septicemia of cattle with consecutive nephritis and urocytis, Thomp- 

 son (Ann. Inst. Pasteur, It (1897), No. 6, pp. 528-540). 



Etiology and pathogeny of yellow fever, Sanakei.li (Ann. Inst, Pasteur, 11 

 (1897), No. 6, pp. 483-514, pU. 9). — A resume of what is known and a description of 

 experimental studies, etc., are given. 



Experimental and anatomical studies on yellow fever, W. II a \ i i.i.i rg Ann. 

 Inst. Pasteur, 11 (1897), No. 6, pp. 515-522). — An extract from a memoir bearing this 

 title. 



Contribution to the history of Trichinosis, J. C. RUBER | Centr. III. Bakt. u. Par., 

 1. Alt., 21 (1897), yo. 17-18, pp. 604-606. — Cites Pagensteeher, who mentions ha\ ing 

 found trichina' in the walls of the small intestines and in the mesentery, and Chatin 

 as having found them in the skins of sausages imported from America. 



The morvo-farcinous affection of the solipedes in Belgium, II. DE Roo I Rapports 

 Pre'Kminaires 3 e Congres Internal. d'Agr., Bruxelles, 1895, pp. 839-846). — The diagnosis 

 of the disease, police sanitary regulations, mode of indemnification, etc., are dis- 

 cussed. A table gives the number of animals suspected and of those attacked by 

 glanders and their value and indemnification from 1870 to 1894. 



Leptothrix placoides, A. R. v. DOBRIGYNISKI (Centr. III. Bakt. u. Par., /. AM., 21 

 (1897), Xo. 6-7, pp. 225-229, figs. 4: alts, in Jour. Hoy. Micros. Soe. [London'], 1897, No. 

 3, p. 238). — Isolated from an old tooth stuffing. 



Manual of veterinary microbiology, MOSSELMAN and Lii'xai \ ( Translated from 

 French by /.'. /«'. Dinioiddie. New York: William /'. Jenkins, 1895, ]>p. 342, figs. 19). — 

 This forms a brief introductory treatise. It is concisely written and discusses in 

 part 1 microbes in general, their organization, chemical composition, occurrence, 

 and distribution in nature, and their physiology. In part 2 pathogenic microbes are 

 discussed, aud in part 3 the microbic diseases are considered individually. 



Concerning the practical applicability of the mouse bacillus, especially of 

 Loeffler's Bacterium typhi murium, M. N. C. L. ZrjPNlK (Centr. III. Bakt. u. Par., 

 1. Alt., 21 (1897), No. 11-12, pp. 446-459). - 



Helminthological studies, M. Stossich (Bui. Soc. Adriat. sci. nat., 17 (1896), pp. 

 122-186, pis. 2; aos. in Zooh Centr. PI., 4 (1897), No. 12, p. 412).— -The author points 

 out a large number of new hosts for known species of nematodes. A new species, 

 Strongylus ersilice, from the intestine of Python molurus is described. 



Protest against proposed legislation restricting the experiments of the 

 Department of Agriculture, J. Wilson | U. S. Dept. Agr., Circular, Office of the 

 Secretary, pp. 8). — In this publication the Secretary of Agriculture protests against 

 the passage of the antivivisection bill and explains that it would materially retard 

 the work of several branches of this Department and consequently would be a detri- 

 ment to the agricultural interests of the country. In the Secretary's opinion the 

 existing law in the District of Columbia has not been shown to be inefficient. 



Vivisection in the District of Columbia, ('. W. Dabxey, Jr. (U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Circular, Office of the Secretary, pp. 8). — The author discusses the antivivisection bill 

 now before Congress, and points out among other things that its passage would be 

 a hindrance to the work of the Department of Agriculture. 



