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The endoparasites of Australian stock and native fauna, Georgina Sweet 

 (Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 11. ser., 2t (1909), .Vo. 2, pp. -',5-',-527, pi. i).— The 

 invpstifiation of which this article forms the first record, "aims at making 11 

 systematic and tiiorough inquiry into the nature of the internal parasites 

 infestin.i; Australian animals, both native and domesticated, and then into the 

 life history and conditions of increase and spread of these injurious forms." 



Part 1 consists largely of a list of the parasites previously recorded, their 

 host or hosts, habitat, the recorder or recorders, and the reference or references. 

 I'art 2 is devoted to an account of new and unrecorded species. A nematode 

 (TriodontopUoriis intermedius) taken from the stomach of a horse is described 

 as new. 



Coccidiosis of cattle and horses. J. Reich el (Amer. Vet. Rev., 31 (1910), 

 No. 1, pp. Jf7-J/9). — In 1908 the author's attention was called to a cow on a 

 farm in Montgomery County. Pa., which was suffering wtih all the symptoms 

 of chronic bacterial dysentery. The cow died within a short time and the 

 clinical diagnosis of chronic bacterial dysentery was not confirmed at autopsy 

 or in subsequent exanunations in the laboratory of specimens. 



Examinations of rectal scrapings from the cattle and later of feces taken 

 from the rectum of all the cattle, horses and goat on the farm, some 63 in 

 number, showed the presence of bodies, in smears stained as for acid-fast 

 bacilli, which varied from rounded to oval in shape, taking on the red stain. 

 They appeared most abundant in cattle, although several of the horses showed 

 them in large numbers in the feces. 



"Unstained the bodies are seen rounded and oval in shape, 2.5 to 5 microns 

 in size, of a definite outline, many having a double walled appearance. Inner 

 structure can be seen, which is well brought out in those stained with iron- 

 hemotoxylin. The shape, outline, inner structure and presence of the bodies 

 in the epithelial cells is conclusive proof that they are coccids. They are 

 smaller than the coccids (2.5 b.y 5 microns) that are known to infest cattle in 

 foreign countries. It is believed that this coccidium is pathogenic for cattle 

 and capable of producing a form of chronic dysenter.v. Although the coccids 

 were found in the feces of the goat and horses on the infected farms, no symp- 

 toms have been observed in either goat or horses." 



Malta fever, A. Delmer (Rec. Med. Vet., 87 (1910), No. 15, pp. 531-5.',1).— 

 A general accoimt in which recent investigations are reviewed. 



Experimental studies on rabies, A. Marie (L'Etude Expcrimentale de la 

 Rage. Paris, 1909, pp. XII+371 + XII, pi. 1, figs, ii).— This is a brief treatise 

 on the most important experimental work with rabies up to 1909. It includes 

 both the pathology and therapeutics. 



Combating tuberculosis by the state, R. Ostertag (Ztschr. Jnfcktionskrank. 

 II. Hyg. Haiistiere, 7 (1910), No. 1-2, pp. 1-19). — The author draws attention to 

 the necessit.v of state control of the spread of tuberculosis, and lays particular 

 .stress upon the various forms of tuberculosis to be considex'ed when exercising 

 this control. 



A contribution to the study of bovine renal tuberculosis, K. BiJCHLi 

 (TijdHchr. Veeartsenijlc, 37 (1910), No. 8, pp. 255-259; abs. in Vet. Rec., 23 

 (1910), No. 1155, p. 127). — The investigations conducted led the author to con- 

 clude that many tuberculous cattle have renal foci to such a degree that bacilli 

 are excrete<l in the urine, and that it is ofte^n possible to demonstrate this by 

 injecting the deposit from the centrifuged urin<> into guinea iiigs. 



Critical remarks in regard to the occurrence of latent tubercle bacilli in 

 the lymphatic glands, E. Joest (Ztselir. Infektionskrank. u. Hyg. Haustierc, 

 7 (1910), No. 1-2, pp. 131-1 'iO).—'i/,\tein tulrercle l)acilli do not occur in the 

 lymphatic glands of bovines and hogs affected with geueralized tuberculosis. 



