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number of animals, inspection and traflQc, veterinary police work, meat inspection, 

 etc., as follows: In Switzerland, by Strose (pp. 313-300); in Denmark, by 

 Hall (pp. 301-435); in Egypt, by Zeller (pp. 43G-4G3) ; in Sweden, by Hall 

 (pp. GOS-G77) ; and in Itiily. by Wehrle {i)p. 078-728). 



Annual report of the Punjab Veterinary College, Civil Veterinary Depart- 

 ment, Punjab, and the Government Cattle Farm, Hissar, for the year 

 1912-13, 11. T. Pease, J. Farmer, and It. Branford {Ann. Rpt. Punjab Vet. 

 Col. and Civ. Vet. Dept., 1912-13, pp. III-\-2-\-15-{-XVII).— This is the usual 

 annual report dealing with veterinary progress in Punjab, occurrence and 

 treatment of contagious diseases, breeding operations, etc. 



The phosphatids of the kidney, M. MacLean {Bio-chcm. Jour., 6 (1012), 

 No. 4, pp. 338-354). — "The acetone insoluble phosphatids of the horse kidney 

 are lecithin, cuorin, and a diaminomonophosphatid — carnaubon. All those are 

 contained in the primary ether extract, while the subsequent alcoholic extract 

 contains lecithin and carnaubon; cuorin, being insoluble in alcohol, is not 

 present here. Thus, so far as solubility allows, the lipoids of the ether extract 

 are the same as those present in the alcoholic extract. In the kidneys investi- 

 gated, the ethereal extract contained much more cuorin than lecithin. 



•• A method is described whereby the complicated alcoholic extract can be 

 purified from a nitrogenous substance. In all tissues investigated hitherto, the 

 phosphatids of the alcoholic extract must have been contaminated by this sub- 

 stance; this explains many of the divergent results obtained. The diamino- 

 monophosphatid isolated has all the properties of a substance found in ox 

 kidney by Dunham and Jacobson, and called by them carnaubon. They state 

 that this substance is a triaminomonophosphatid. It is probable that carnaubon 

 is not a tri-, but a diaminomonophosphatid, and that the methods used for its 

 isolation by Dunham and Jacobson were inefficient to obtain a pure substance. 

 On extracting a substance obtained by the method employed by the above in- 

 vestigators with water, a diaminomonophosphatid was obtained." 



Contributions to the biochemistry of g-rowth. — The glycog-en content of 

 the liver of rats bearing malignant new growths, W. Cramer and J. I^ch- 

 HEAD (Proc. Roy. Soc. [London], Ser. B, 86 {1913), No. B 588, pp. 302-307).— 

 "Glycogen disiippears more rapidly from the liver of tumor-bearing rats than 

 from the liver of a normal rat. Since observations on the gaseous metabolism 

 showed that there is no increased oxidation of carbohydrate material in tumor- 

 bearing animals, the results confirm the conclusion arrived at previously from 

 observations on pregnant animals, that in growth carbohydrate material is 

 used for the synthesis of protoplasm." 



About some biological properties of the spleen in experimental nagana 

 infection, P. Roxdoni and G. Goretti {Ztschr. Immunitdtsf. u. Expt. Thcr., 

 I, OHg., 17 {1913), No. 4, pp. 432-443).— It was found that the spleens from 

 guinea pigs and rats affected wuth nagana were trypanolytic. No marked ac- 

 cumulation of immune antigens originating from trjrpanosomes in the spleen 

 was noted. The spleen of these animals was found to have in vitro marked 

 hemolytic (auto-, iso-, and heterolj^ic) properties, which is due to an increased 

 amount of lipoids in the spleen. 



About leucocyte-dissolving immune bodies, E. Leschke {Ztschr. Immuni- 

 tdtsf. u. Expt. Ther., I, Orig., 16 {1913), No. 5-6, pp. 627-632, fig. i).— By giving 

 intravenous injections of leucocytes from various species of animals, i. e., man, 

 horse, etc., specie-specific antileucocytic immune bodies are produced. These 

 show agglutination, complement fixation, and cytolysis (incomplete) for 

 leucocytes. 



Immunizing against calves' rennet, S. G. Hedin {Ifoppc-Scylcr's Ztschr. 

 Physiol. Chem., 77 (1912), No. S, pp. 229-246; ahs. in Cetitbl. Bakt. [etc.], 1. 



