34 Georgina Siveet.- 



descendants — either pure bred or hybrid — of the Bantin, which, as 

 pointed out above (see p. 3), is regarded as being, at least, closely 

 allied to the ancestor of the Zebu. 



Material has been sent to me from Java, but is not yet to hand. 

 The results of its examination, and the relationship of the nodule 

 worms in the Javanese Bos indicus, in the hybrid Bos indicus 

 (Javanese X Bengalese), and in the Javanese Karbouw, will form 

 the subject of a later report by myself. 



In reference to the Indian cattle, Bos indicus, imported into the 

 United States of America from infected areas in India (see p. 14), 

 I am informed by'Dr. B. H. Ransom that so far as the officers of the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry have heen able to make any observa- 

 tions, worm-nodules have not been discovered. 



26th May, 1915. 



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