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zoologist who has specialised in the study of mosquitos and malaria. 

 This latter measure has since been adopted [see this Review, Ser. B, 

 V, p. 189]. 



Netter ( — ). Sur le Danger du Paludisme en France. [On the Danger 

 of Malaria in France.] — Bull. Acad. Med., Paris, Ixxvii, no. 22, 

 29th May 1917, pp. 686-690. 



This paper reports a discussion arising out of the previous paper. 

 The author refers to the doubt that exists as to whether persons who 

 are carriers of malaria parasites and the presence of Anopheles are the 

 sole factors in the dissemination of malaria, and expresses the fear lest 

 the public in France may be alarmed by the suggestion that malaria 

 convalescents should be sent to those locahties where malaria has not 

 previously existed. 



M. Blanchard, replying to this discussion, referred to literature which 

 entirely refutes the view that there are factors other than infected 

 persons and Anophelines in outbreaks of malaria, though it is quite 

 possible for mosquitos to be present without the disease (the so-called 

 'paludismo senza malaria, of the Italians) and took the opportunity of 

 reassuring the public, who, he believes, have no cause for alarm, 

 although certain measures are indispensable in the face of so serious 

 a danger. 



Leger (L.) & MouRiQUAND (G.). SuF I'Hibemation des Anopheles en 

 Dauphin6. [On the Hibernation of Anopheles in Dauphine.] — Bull. 

 Acad. Med., Paris, Ixxvii, no. 38, 2nd October 1917. 



Continuing previous investigations in Dauphine on Anopheles 

 niacidipennis and A. bifurcatus [see this Review, Ser. B, v, p. 148], the 

 authors found that in that region A. bifurcatus hibernates in the larval 

 stage, producing adults in x4.pril, whilst A. maculipennis, hibernating 

 in the form of adult fertilised females, gives rise to adults much later, 

 at the beginning of summer. This fact is interesting in connection with 

 the experience of Grassi, who found that at the same temperatures 

 A. bifurcatus is much more suitable for the development of Plasmodium 

 than A. maculipennis. 



Hoffman (F. L.). A Plea and a Plan for the Eradication of Malaria 

 throughout the Western Hemisphere. Address read in Abstract 

 before the Southern Medical Association, 10th Annual Meeting, 

 Atlanta, Georgia, 14th November IQiQ.^^Prudential Press, Neivark, 

 N.J., 1917, 65 pp. 



This pamphlet deals in a clear and practical manner with the 

 possibilities of the prevention and control of malaria. The first essential 

 towards the end in view is the united effort of all government agencies, 

 whether federal, state or municipal, and the international co-operation 

 of all the principal countries of the western hemisphere ; once this 

 is secured the author is convinced that the elimination of malaria, 

 which in its economic aspect is at present the most important disease 

 of the southern United States, will be attained in course of time. The 

 early historv of and literature concerning the disease is dealt with a 



