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relation of ticks to spotted fever. For some time before his death he 

 had been working on the possible relation of insects to typhus fever. 

 It was while carrying on these studies that he contracted the disease 

 which ended fatally. But he had succeeded in gathering much valua- 

 ble data, and his experiments, taken with those of others, leave little 

 room for doubt that the common body louse (Pediculus vestimenti) 

 is responsible for the transmission of the disease. 



"The Prevention of Malaria," by Doctor Ross and others, is one of 

 the most important additions to our literature in regard to the rela- 

 tion of mosquitoes to disease. Doctor Howard in his ''Preventive and 

 Remedial Work against Mosquitoes" sums up our present knowledge 

 in regard to the subject treated in the bulletin. It is to be noted that 

 in this publication the well-known Stegomyia calopus masks under 

 the name Aedes calopus. Most workers will be more content to accept 

 Theobald's decision and go back to the old name Stegomyia fasciata. 

 Part five of Theobald's "Monograph of the CuHcidse of the World" 

 is a most important contribution to the systemic literature of this 

 family. 



Early in November press dispatches announced that the first case 

 of yellow fever had appeared in Hawaii. A sailor on one of the Japa- 

 nese cruisers that had just arrived from Mexico was found to have 

 the disease and the ship was held in quarantine. The utmost vigi- 

 lance will be necessary to keep this disease out of these and the other 

 tropical islands of the Pacific. 



Much has been written about the relation of flies to typhoid fever 

 and other diseases but with the exception of Doctor Currie's report on 

 the relation of flies to leprosy, but little new evidence has been brought 

 forth. 



Several important articles on fleas and plague have appeared in 

 various journals and reports. Mitzmain's papers have given us many 

 interesting facts in regard to the bionomics of the flea. McCoy and 

 others have shown the close relation existing between the rats and the 

 ground squirrels. Bulletin 30 of the Pub. Health and Marine Hospt. 

 Service on "The Rat and its Relation to the Public Health," contains 

 several important articles. 



The "Bulletin of Entomological Research," the first number of 

 which appeared early in 1910, promises to be of particular interest to 

 workers along this line. It is issued by the Entomological Research 

 Committee (Tropical Africa) appointed by the Colonial office. The 

 committee is composed of several prominent workers in tropical medi- 

 cine and entomology. Besides several articles relating to various 

 phases of tropical entomology there are many shorter articles and 

 notes that often contain valuable bits of information. 



