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Stott (Capt. H.). Studies in Malaria.— />((^/an Med. Gaz., Calcutta, 

 xlix, no. 12, December 1914, pp. 462-471 ; 1, nos. 1-6, January- 

 June 1915, pp. 7-10, 47-52, 85-91, 131-135, 172-175, 213-217 ; 

 13 f]gs., 3 plates, 34 charts, 2 plans. 

 At Fort Dufferin, Mandalay, the conditions favour the presence both 

 of mosquitos and malaria. Mosquitos are abundant throughout the 

 year and their breeding places are described in detail. In July, 

 Anopheles culicifacies and A. rossi were predominant, while in December, 

 A.fuliginosus, A. sinensis and A. barbirostris are the only species met 

 with. 



Administrator's Proclamation no. 11 of 1915.— Pror. of Natal Off. 

 Gatette, PietermarUzburg, no. 306, 19th August 1915. 

 This proclamation abolishes the close season in respect of reedbuck, 

 waterbuck, kudu, wildebeeste, buffalo, zebra, bushbuck, duiker, and 

 steinbuck, as regards certain defined areas. The game may be killed 

 or destroyed within the specified areas subject to the ordinary game 

 license. It is further notified that in cases where it is shown to the 

 satisfaction of the Administrator that there is danger of the spread of 

 nagana, permits will be issued, without payment of the prescribed 

 charges, to European farmers and settlers residing in the area of 

 Zululand lying south of the White Umfolozi Kiver to its junction with 

 the Black Umfolozi River, and thence south of the Umfolozi River 

 to the Indian Ocean (excluding the Dukuduku Game Reserve), and 

 in the European settlement lying immediately north of the Umfolozi. 

 River, to kill any of the above game within the boundaries only of 

 their respective farms or holdings. 



Breijer (H. G.). Notes on the Maputaland Expedition (27th May to 

 3rd July 19H).—Ann. Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, vol. 5, 2Sth 

 August 1915, pp. 111-115, 1 fig. 

 The objects of this expedition were to investigate animals infected 

 with trypanosomiasis and to obtain information about blood-sucking 

 Diptera, especially Tabanidae and Stomoxys. The results in con- 

 nection with blood parasites were negative. No Tabanids were found ; 

 all the Diptera collected belonged to the Muscidae, Trypetidae, and 

 CuLiciDAE. The following ticks were collected from rhinoceros : 

 Rhipicephalus simus, Dermacentor rhinocerotis, and Amblyomma petersi 

 A tick belonging to the genus Ixodes was found on Dendraspis 

 angusticeps (black mamba). 



SiLER (J. F.). Medical Notes on Barbados, British West Indies. Part I : 



General Information concerning Barbados ; its Prevailing Diseases. 



Part II : Pellagra in Barbados.— ^mer. Jl. Trop. Dis. & Prevent. 



Med., New Orleans, iii, nos. 1 and 4, July and October 1915, 



pp. 46-63 and 186-221, 1 plate, 1 chart. 

 The decrease of elephantiasis in the Island of Barbados is attributed 

 by the medical officers there to the mosquito work initiated for the 

 extermination of Stegomyia fasciata {Aedes ca'opus) during the yellow 

 fever epidemic in 1908. Ctdex fatigans (quinquefasciatus) is found 

 throughout the island, but its breeding places have been controlled 

 in the fight against S. fasciata. The measures must however be 



