1144 EXPERIMENT STATION KECORD. 



study (if ]ilant disc-iscs and reports made on a nunilicr of invest ifjjations. Tho 

 diseases are {jronped into nonparasitic, those due to pl.-inl iiarasiles, those caused 

 by iusects, aud those the causes of \vhi(th are not delinitely Icnowu. 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY— ENTOMOLOGY. 



Economic zoology, H. Osborn (New York, 1908, pp. XV+Jif)0, figs. 269). — 

 An introductory text-booli in zooiojjy, with special reference tf) its applications 

 in aj;ricultui'e. coninierce. .-lud niedicine. 



A Gernian-French glossary of anatomical and zoological terms, 11. Blanch- 

 ARD (Glo.ssairc AUcinand-Fraintiis dcs 'J'cnitcs d'AiKtloiiiic ct dc Zoolof/it: I'ari>i, 

 1908. pp. VII +298). — In this jilossary the French equivalents with fanuly. 

 order, or class to which the siiecies belong are given for the German names of 

 animals. 



Catalogue of the type-specimens of mammals in the United States Na- 

 tional Museum, including the Biological Survey collection, M. W. I.yon. Jr.. 

 and W. H. Osgood (U. .s. \at. Mus. Hid. 62. pp. X+325). — This catalogue in- 

 cludes all type-specimens of mammals known to be in the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum on July 1, 1908. A total of 1.405 type-specimens are here included, of 

 which 092 are in the collection of the Division of Mammals aud 713 in the 

 Biological Survey collection. A list is appended of 20 type-specimens that 

 should be in the National Museum collection but of which no part can now be 

 found. 



The fauna of Mayfield's cave, A. M. Banta (Carnegie Inst. Washington 

 Pub. 67, pp. 11.',, pi. 1, figs. 13, map 1; ahs. in t^cicncc, n. sen, 29 (1908), No. 1.1,3, 

 pp. 503, 50-',). — This cave, located in Monroe County, Ind., was visited by the 

 author on an average of once a week during some 20 months, covering different 

 seasons of the years 1903, 1904, and 1905. The collections, made are here re- 

 corded under the headings of Mammalia, Pisces, lusecta, Myriopoda, Arachnida, 

 Crustacea, Annelida, Mollusca, and Turbellaria. Of 138 species known to exist 

 in Indiana caves, 110 are recorded from Mayfield's cave. Descriptions by C. F. 

 Adams of 2 new species of fungus flies (MycetophiJa anaJis and M. incerta) are 

 included. A bibliographic list is given of more than 130 works and papers 

 consulted. 



Annual report of the chief inspector of rabbits, A. Crawford (Jour. DcpK 

 Agr. West. Aust., 11 (1908), No. 6, pp. 9.35-939).— The total length of rabbit- 

 proof fence erected Is said to be 2,023 miles with about 10 miles in the course 

 of erection. Details are given of the work of the year. 



Plague among the ground squirrels of California, W. B. Wherry (Jour. 

 Infeet. Diseases, 5 (1908), No. 5, pp. .',85-506, pi. 1, map 7).— The fact that a 

 number of ground squirrels (Otospermophilus heecheyi) have been proved to 

 be infected with Bacillus pestis in two widely separated sections of the State 

 of California is considered as the most serious feature of the plague situation 

 in this country. The Norway rat (Mus norregicux) was the principal species 

 of rodent caught in traps set well within the burrows of the ground squirrel 

 by employed trappers. The relation between squirrel plague and the origin of 

 certain human cases is said to have been demonstrated. Pathological and bac- 

 teriological features of the squirrel plague are here discussed. 



Experiments on the use of Bacillus pestiscavise as a rat virus, W. B. 

 Wherry (Jour. Infect. Diseases, 5 (7.908), No. 5, pp. 519-553).— In a study 

 made of this species it was found that when ingested by young rats (Mus 

 norvegie.us) and mice (M. musculus) it is acutely pathogenic. A large per- 

 centage of adult rats are naturally inmiune to the infection through the gas- 

 trointestinal canal or w^hen infected they subsequently recover. 



