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Contribution to the study of the bacterial flora of eggs, A. CiiBf:TiKN (Hyg. 

 Miniilf el l,(til, 2 ilDOH), \o. (J, pii. .i'll-.i't'i) . — 'I'lic author oxiiiiiintHl si)oLte(l 

 ejrgs and found them to contain bacterhi of the ^ioiioni I'asteurella, Bacterium, 

 Snrfina, and St;n)liyl()('occus. 



Researches on the pathogenic anaerobes, I], von IIibi.kr (I'ntcr.sucliitiKjcn 

 ilbcr die pathoyenen Anacrobcn. Jena, UtOS, pp. .'j38, pis. J7, rev. in lirit. Med. 

 Jour., UK)!), .\o. 2.'>l'i, p. GO'/). — This volume deals with 15 species, includinj; the 

 bacillus of symptomatic anthrax, varieties of bacilli of malij^nant edema, the 

 tetanus bacillus, and bacilli associated with epidemics of meat [joisouiug. The 

 cultural characters of these various micro-organisms and diagnostic points of 

 difference are considered in the first part of the booli. Data regarding the 

 pathogenicity of the anaerobes and the anatomical and histological character of 

 the lesions jiroduccd make up the remainder of the volume. 



The ultravisible viruses, J. M'Fauvean {Jour. Couipar. ralli. and Ther., 21 

 (UHlS), Nu.s. /, pp. 5S-G8, fig. 1; 2, pp. 168-17.5; 3, pp. 232-2.',2).— The author 

 considers the ultravisible viruses at length. Attention is first called to the 

 fact that the virus of contagious bovine i)leuro-pneumonia is ou the border 

 limit of visibility, since it can .iust be made out with a magnification of 2.000 

 and a brilliant illumination. The mosaic or spotted disease of the tobacco 

 plant appears to have been the first disease whose cause was proved to be of 

 the nature of an ultravisible virus. Foot-and-mouth disease is the first animal 

 disease sliowu to be due to an ultravisible virus, an account of which discovery 

 was published in 1.S98. African horse sickness, fowl plague, yellow fever, 

 cattle plague, sheep pox, epithelioma contagiosum of birds, hog cholera, rabies, 

 cow pox, equine pernicious anemia, canine distemper, blue tongue, and leuco- 

 cythemia in fowls are the other diseases known to be due to ultravisible 

 viruses, and here considered. 



Immune sera, C. F. Bolduan (New York and London, U)OR, 3. ed., enh, pp. 

 VIII-\-J16, figs. JO). — A third !ind enlarged edition of this work, which is a con- 

 cise exposition of our present knowledge concei*ning the constitution and mode 

 of action of antitoxins, agglutinins, hemolysins, bacteriolysins, precipitins, cyto- 

 toxins, and opsonins. 



Some examples of malignant disease in animals, J. B. Cleland (Jour. 

 Coinpar. Path, and Titer., 21 {1!)08), No. 3, pp. 2.'i2~2^5. fig. 2).— The author 

 presents an account of cancerous conditions that have been met with during 

 the past 2 years in western Australia, which he considers of interest particu- 

 larly as showing the widespread distribution of such diseases. These include 

 carcinoma of the breast of a lioness, carcinoma of the udder in a dairy cow, 

 R(luamous epithelioma of the perinseum of a cow, e])ithelioma displacing the eye 

 of a horse, epithelioma growing from the conjunctival surface of the lower 

 eyelid of a horse and displacing the globe, alveola sarcoma of the mediastinum 

 in a bullock, and a malignant disease (carcinoma) of the suprarenal gland of a 

 sheep. 



Veterinary division, A. Grist (Dept. Agr. Orange River Colony, Ann. Rpt., 

 Jf (i.907-8), pp. 77-90). — Glanders is reported as greatly decreased in prevalence 

 during the year under report. A single case of pleuro-pneumonia is said to 

 remain from the outbreaks resulting from its introduction in 1907 from Cape 

 Colony. Although East Coast fever has not yet extended to Orange River 

 Colony, its spread is causing the department much anxiety. Hog cholera has 

 not as yet been reported from the colony. Quarter evil is said to be very prev- 

 alent during certain portions of the year, and geil-ziekte as prevalent in the 

 spring. Some 7,000 sheep were vaccinated against blue-tongue during the year 

 with Theiler's preventive vaccine with satisfactory results. Other diseases 

 mentioned as having occurred during the year include anthrax, ulcerative 



