96 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Collected works relating to the problem of immunity, P. Ehrmch (Gesam- 

 melte Arbeilen zur Tmmunitatsforschung. Berlin: August Hirschwald, 1904 t ^p. XII-\- 

 776, figs. 12).— In this book the editor lias brought together the majority of the 

 articles on immunity published by himself and associates during the last few years. 

 The volume contains 38 articles dealing with various phases of immunity and serving 

 to develop and elucidate the author's theory of immunity. The majority of the 

 articles are based <>n experiments undertaken for the purposeof testing the value and 

 applicability of the author's theories. 



Report of the principal veterinary surgeon for the year 1903, S. B. Wool- 

 latt (Natal. Agr. Jour., and Min. Rec.,7 (1904), No. 5, pp. 467-474)- — Notes are given 

 on rinderpest, lung sickness, glanders, sheep scab, African coast fever, plant poison- 

 ing, etc. It has thus far proved impossible to exterminate rinderpest in Zululand. 

 This fact is accounted for by the absence of fences and difficulties of inspection. 

 Glanders h spread to considerable extent through the agency of condemned military 

 horses. 



Dipping and strict quarantine is recommended for the control of African coast 

 fever. The Natal government recently passed an act relating to the prevention of 

 this disease by quarantine. 



Report of the third meeting of the official veterinarians of Prussia, Decem- 

 ber 12, 1903 (Deut. Tierarztl. Wchnschr., 12 (1904), Nos. 4, pp. 29-34; 5, )>),. 

 42 -44). —During the sessions of this meeting the members discussed the standing of 

 the veterinary profession, the work of the veterinary service in executing the meat 

 inspection laws, certain desirable modifications of the German law relating to animal 

 plagues, and the inoculation method for preventing Texas fever. A detailed account 

 was presented of the life history of cattle ticks and of- the developmental stages of 

 the blood parasite of Texas fever. 



Reports of the colonial veterinary surgeon and the assistant veterinary 

 surgeons for the year 1903, I>. Hutcheon (Cape Tou-n: Govt. Printers, 1904, pp. 

 88, pi. 1). — This report contains an account of the work done during 1903 by the 

 chief veterinary officer and his staff of assistants. Investigations were made with 

 regard to the nature, symptoms, and treatment of heartwater, malarial catarrhal fever, 

 rinderpest, redwater, African coast fever, glanders, tuberculosis, hog cholera, etc. 



Brief reports are given by the various assistant veterinarians regarding the general 

 health of animals in their districts. A method of preventive inoculation against 

 heartwater is being perfected. Serum inoculation was successfully used in the con- 

 trol of rinderpest. Redwater is said to be extending gradually southward along the 

 east coast. 



A summary is given of the discussions had at an intercolonial veterinary confer- 

 ence. Resolutions were adopted regarding cooperation of the government veterinary 

 officers in South African English colonies in the control of rinderpest, African coast 

 fever, lung sickness, glanders, epizootic lymphangitis, scab, etc. 



Handbook of meat inspection, R. Ostertag, trans, by E. V. Wilcox (New 

 York: W. R. Jenkins, 1904, pp. XXXV-\ 886, jd. l,figs. 260).— This is a translation 

 from the fourth German edition of Ostertag's well-known volume on meat inspec- 

 tion. The subjects covered include history and present status of meat inspection, 

 laws, butchering, art of inspection before and after slaughter, normal appearance 

 and differentiation of the meat of different animals, abnormal physiological condi- 

 tions, general pathology, organic diseases, anomalies of the blood, intoxications, ani- 

 mal parasites, infectious diseases, emergency slaughter, post-mortem alterations in 

 meat, adulteration of sausages, inflation of meat, preservation and sterilization of 

 meat. J. R. Mohler prepared the introduction, which deals chiefly with the his- 

 tory and present status of meat inspection in the United States. 



The new meat inspection, Seigel (Deut. Tierarztl. Wchnschr., 12 (1904), No. 2, 

 pp. 10-12). — The author reviews certain cases in which infected or otherwise harm- 



