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ill 1909 by Dr. Whitehouse ; the disease has done much damage in 

 neighbouring States. The present paper gives the details of experi- 

 ments made to investigate the means of transmission of the disease. 

 The injection of the blood of an infected animal into a healthy one, 

 and feeding infected blood to healthy animals gave negative results, 

 and an attempt was made to find out whether Tabanid flies acted as 

 transmitters of the disease. A screened pen large enough to contain 

 three horses was built out-of-doors in the sun ; the roof and the south 

 and west sides were built with wire mosquito screening. On the whole 

 the experiments failed to give very definite results, partly owing to the 

 difheulty of keeping the flies alive long enough ; but from the 

 observations made it seemed possible that transmission might occur 

 through healthy horses eating grass infected with the excrement of the 

 flies which had fed on diseased horses. On the other hand Francis 

 and Marsteller (1908) kept a healthy susceptible horse in the pasture 

 with diseased horses all the summer, although numerous flies were 

 present, a fact which constitutes some evidence against transmission 

 bv flies. 



NuMKS (L. F.). Linfangite epizootica. [Epizootic Lymphangitis.] — 

 Boletim da Reparticdo de Agricidtura ; Secretaria Geral do Cover no 

 da Provincia de Mocambique, Lourenco Marques, no. 10, Jan. 1914, 

 pp. 14-16. 



The author describes the symptoms and etiology of the disease, and 

 in the course of his remarks says that Harber, a veterinary surgeon 

 in Natal, has advanced the theory that under certain favourable 

 circumstances the micro-organism of this disease, as in the case of 

 tetanus, may be capable of independent existence, and seeks in this way 

 to explain the appearance of isolated cases in localities at a considerable 

 distance from a known focus, and in which there is no proof of contact 

 with infected animals. He further suggests that the infection may be 

 transmitted by dust storms or by flies. The author regards this 

 theory as of sufiicient consequence to justify the protection of sick 

 horses from flies. 



RoDHAiN (J.). Sur une Larve de Muscinae vivant dans le nid de Passer 

 grisens, au Congo. [On a larva of a species of Muscina, living 

 in the nest of Passer grisens.] — Revue Zool. Africaine, Brussels, iii, 

 no. 2, 20th Jan. 1914, pp. 213-217, 1 fig. 



Larvae and pupae of a fly belonging to the sub-family Muscinae 

 w^ere taken by the author from nests of the grey-headed sparrow 

 {Passer griseus) at Bambili, in the Congo. On examination the larvae 

 were found to contain avian blood. The larvae were reared, and the 

 different stages up to the adult condition are described. The fly has 

 not been determined, but it is not a species of Cheiromyia, the genus 

 to which other Muscinae of similar habits belong. The larvae were 

 also fed on the blood of other sparrows and on fowls. 



James (S. P.). Reports of Sanitary Inquiries in Jaffna and the Northern 

 Ports, and in Galle. — Ceylon Sessional Papers, Colombo, iv, 1914, 

 8 pp., 1 map. 



During the visit of the author to the Jaffna District, Ceylon, it' was 



