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this they disagree with Yamanouchi, who has reported the change to be 

 effected by red blood cells. They conclude that the substance which thus 

 transforms atoxyl is a cell derivative of certain tissues, particularly the skin, 

 that it is soluble in water, thermostable, attenuated spontaneously and requires 

 an optimum temperature (37 to 55° C) for action. 



The third annual report of the state veterinarian of Alabama, 1909, C. A. 

 Gary (Ann. Rpt. State Vet. Ala., 1909, pp. 30). — This report includes accounts 

 of tick eradication, the occurrence of tuberculosis, glanders, hog cholera, etc. 



The veterinary bacteriolog'ical laboratories of the Transvaal {Pretoria, 

 1909, pp. IG'f, pis. -'/2, figs. 7). — This publication was issued in commemoration 

 of the opening of the new laboratories at Onderstepoort, Pretoria, in October, 

 1908, and includes a history of the laboratories and a description of the 

 buildings. 



The greater part of the volume is devoted to papers by members of the veter- 

 inary bacteriological division, as follows : Immunity in Tropical and Sub- 

 tropical Diseases, by A. Theiler (pp. 21-51) ; The Diagnosis of Bacillary Piro- 

 plasmosis of Bovines in the Transvaal, by J. Walker (pp. 55-64) ; Htemolysis 

 in Practical A'eterinary Science, by W. Frei (pp. 67-110) ; The Anatomy of 

 Stilesia centripuiictata (the commonest intestinal custode of sheep in the 

 Transvaal), by L. H. Gough (pp. 113-131) ; and Notes on the Pathological 

 Anatomy of Pleuro-pnouuionia (Contagiosa bovum). by K. F. Jleyer (pp. 

 135-104). 



Report of the research work of the Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory, 

 Muktesar, 1908-9, J. D. E. Holmes (Indian Civ. Vet. Dept. Mem., No. 1, pp. 

 102, pis. 15, charts <S'). — The first part of this memoir contains 3 papers on 

 surra : (1) Investigation of an outbreak of hoi'se surra with result of treatment 

 with atoxyl. tartar emetic, mercury, and other drugs previously noted from 

 another source (E. S. R., 20, p. 10S5; (2) treatment of surra by atoxyl and 

 orpiment. also previously noted (E. S. R., 20, p. 1185). and (3) further experi- 

 ments on the treatment of surra with atoxyl and orpiment and other prepara- 

 tions of arsenic. 



Part 2 consists of an account of immunization against symptomatic anthrax 

 by means of a single vaccine, and part 3, of immunization against hemorrhagic 

 septicemia of bovines. Part 4, which relates to rinderpest, discusses the serum- 

 alone method as a means of combating rinderi>est in India, and the nature 

 of the immunity following a simultaneous inoculation of serum and virulent 

 blood whore no clinical symptoms of rinderpest are produced. In part 5, a 

 peculiar form of streptotrichosis among cattle is described, as previously noted 

 (E. S. R., 20, p. 1082). A flagellate form of Piroplasma bovis is described in 

 part 6, and a note on a giant ix)lynuclear cell is given in part 7. 



Report of the government veterinary surgeon for 1908, G. W. Sturgess 

 (Rpt. Gort. Vet. Surf/. [Ccifloit]. 1908, pp. 8). — This report includes an account 

 of the occurrence of infectious diseases of cattle, particularly rinderpest. 



Observations in regard to a disease occurring in German East Africa 

 which simulates the malignant catarrhal fever of bovines in Germany, 

 LicHTENHELD iZisclir. I nfekl ioiiskronk. u. Jlyfl. Ilaustiere, 7 (1910). No. 3-4, 

 pp. 290-301; abs. in Berlin. Tierdrztl. Wchnschr., 26 (1910), No. 2(). p. ol',; Vet. 

 Rec, 23 (1910), No. Il.'i8, pp. 11, 18). — A detailed description of the clinical and 

 pathological findings with cases of a disease which resembles the malignant 

 catarrhal fever of bovines of Germany is presented. • 



[Eradication of cattle ticks] (S. C. Live Stock Assoc. Rpts., 1907-8, pp. 

 11-112, 21J/-231). — These reports include 3 papers relating to ticks presented at 

 the meeting of the association held in February. 1907, namely, Tick Eradica- 

 tion, by Tait Butler, Government Aid in Tick Eradication, by W. 1*. Ellenberger, 



