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to avail themselves of the fresh herbage when turiUMl out to 

 grass. The author recommends thorough washing witli potash 

 soap and before the animals' skins are dry to sprinkle them witli 

 wood ashes and to rub this Avell in with a brush ; Avashing* with a 

 decoction of Jk'lpltiniurti staphisagria, made by boiling one i)art 

 of the seeds in 15 of water; anointing the affected parts with a 

 mixture of one part of creosote and 20 parts of olive oil nnd 

 rubbing it well in with a brusli ; or finally, washing with a decoc- 

 tion of tobacco made by boiling 50 grams of tobacco in 1,500 

 grams of water until it is reduced to one litre. He points out 

 that whichever of these remedies is made .use of the npplication 

 must be repeated for three or four days, in order to make quite sure 

 that not only all the lice have been killed, but also the eggs, 

 otherwise the trouble will at once return. 



Pestiferous Fauna. How they breed and how to exterminate them. — 

 Svfjgestions issved hy thr GcnrraJ Board of HralfJi, Brrmvda, 

 1913, 15 pp. 



This is a small pamplilet issued for general distribution and 

 explaining in simple language the dangers to health resulting 

 from insect and other pests. A list of precautions necessary to 

 preserve health, is given, and the danger of the house-fly as a 

 disease-carrier is specially emphasised. The usual methods for 

 eliminating these insects are recommended. 



As regards mosquitos it is said that three species only are of 

 consequence in Bermuda, viz. Sfef/otnyia fasciafa, CuJr.f faf/r/ayis, 

 and C. .<i(dhr)f(iii.'i (salt-water mosquito). Theeonditions in l^ermuda 

 for the breeding of AnopJielrs are said not to be favourable. The 

 g'enerally accepted methods for the prevention of the breeding of 

 mosquitos are given. The pamphlet concludes Avith some 

 remarks upon rats, the manner in which they carry plague, and 

 some methods of getting rid of them. 



Sheep Scab in Ireland. — 12fh Aiin. Gen. Rept. Prpt. Ar/ric. 

 Tr eland, 1913, pp. 159. 



During the year ended 80th September, 1912, 338 outbreaks of 

 sheep scab were recorded, as against 394 in 1911. Two dippings 

 annually of all sheep throughout Ireland are required. 



Bruce (Sir IJ.), Harvfa' (Ma.i'or I).), JIamerton (Ma.ior A. E.), 

 Davy (Dr. J. B.), k!t Lady Bruce. The Trypanosomes found 

 in the Blood of Wild Animals living in the Sleeping-Sickness 

 Area, Nyasaland. — Pioc R. Soc, Loudon, Ser. B, Ixxxvi, 

 No. B. 587, Tth April 1913, pp. 2C9-27T. 



The plain adjoining the western lake-coast of Nyasa is partly 

 covered with thorn-scrub which is the home of the tsetse fly and 

 numerous wild animals, vSamples of the blood of any animal 



