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siibscqiionlly unfitted for work. Kahbits, .vouiij,' cats, and a dop were injected 

 suluutiineously with blood and jiland juice from typical cases. Two of the 

 .'^mailer cats thus treated died within a day or two of each other about 3 months 

 after injection, but the symptoms shown were not sutficiently characteristic to 

 permit one to say that they diefl of swamp fever. Two horses were injected 

 subcutaui'ously with blood from cats that seemed to show positive symptoms 

 and a third with blood from a horse suffering with the disease without evidence 

 of infiH'tion. Althoufih many examinations have been made the search for a 

 specific orjranism in the blood has not so far been successful. 



The artificial impregnation of mares, L. Van Meldkrt (Ann. Gcmhloux, 18 

 ( l!)OS), .\o. .S, 1)1). .'fdJ-.'/d!), fujx. N». — A descrii)tion of the process and the imple- 

 ments used by veterinarians in France. 



Patholog-ical investigations of fowl cholera, W. Jungklaus {PaihrAogifich- 

 an(iti>)ni.'<(lir rntcrsiiclnDitfoi Ixi akiitcr und chronischer Gcfliigclcholcra. 

 IiKUig. Tlirsis. Lripsir. J90S; aha. in Bui. Inst. P«steui; 6 (tf)OS), Xo. 10. p. 

 .}j7). — The author considers an examination of the blood in septicemic forms 

 and iniKMilation in clironic forms always necessary to confirm tb(> diagnosis. 



Experiments in the transmission of spirillosis of fowls by Argas reflexus, 

 C. Shellack (Centhl. Bait, [€tc.^, 1. AM., Grig., -',6 (1908), .Yo. 6, /)/). J,86--',88; 

 ahs. in Bill, fnftt. Pasteur, 6 (1908), No. 12, p. 55'/).— In 2 of 4 cases in 

 which .1. )(fl(.nts was used the author succeeded in transmitting; Spirorhwtc 

 galliniiruin. In one case infection was induced by the bite of 4 ticks that 

 had be<-ome infected 7 days before. The second case followed the bites of 6 

 ticks of which the most recently infected had been fed 64 days before on a fowl 

 affected with sjiirillosis. 



On the penetration of eggs by bacteria, G. Cao (Ann. 1st. Ig. Sper. Univ. 

 Roma, IS (190S\, Xo. 1, pp. 39-U3 ; ahs. in Bui. Inst. Pasteur, 6 (1908), No. 10, 

 p. .'/72). — Fresh and unfertilized eggs were found nearly always free from 

 l)acteria while 50 per cent of the fertilized eggs were contaminated. It was 

 exiwrimeiitally determined that microbes quickly penetrate the shell. Fresh 

 e>:gs delay pollution by micro-organisms when such are placed in contact with 

 the shell and even attenuate their virulence. This, however, is not the case 

 with old egjrs. During the first few days the development of bacteria within 

 the e^g appears to be slow. 



Index-catalogue of medical and veterinary zoology, C. W. Stiles and A. 

 Hassall (PuIj. Health and Mar. IIosp. Serr. U. S., Hyg. Lab. Bui. 31, pp. 401).— 

 The author Indexes of medical and veterinary zoology, upon which the present 

 anihurs have been working for several years, are to be supplemented by subject 

 and host indexes. The present bulletin, which is devoted to trematodes and 

 the diseases causi^l by them, is the first volume of such indexes. \n alpha- 

 beti<-al list of specific and sul)s|)ecific names, with type hosts, is pivcn. but the 

 greater part of the bulletin is occupied with a bibliography of diseases, genera, 

 and spe<-ific names. 



Friedberger and Frbhner's veterinary pathology, trans, by M. H. Hayks 

 {fliit-ago ami London, 190S, rol.t. /. pp. \X + l-il: 2, pp. 702). — In this revise<l 

 and enlarged edition, prepared by the wife of the late translator, the arrange- 

 ment of th(! first Knulish edition (E. S. U., K!, p. 112S) is discarded and the 

 (Jerman text and the division of volumes and chapters adopte«l in the sixth 

 <;ermiin «Mlifi(iii jin* strictly adhered to. II also contains notes on bacteriology 

 by It. T. Hewlett. 



Observations on the veterinary schools in Europe, P. A. Fisii (Anier. \'ct. 

 If<r., .{J { I90S). Xo. }. pp. 'i'i9-'i(!S, jigx. 12). — This is an accoinit of the reipiire- 

 nients for entrance, tuition, courses, e«iuipm<>nt, methods, etc., at I'J veterinary 

 colU>ges in i; different countries vlsite^l bv the author. 



