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months usually." The accuracy of the experimental work upon 

 which the foregoing statement is based seems not to have been 

 challenged until the publication of Holmes' work in No. 1 of the 

 Indian Civil Veterinary Department Memoirs, page 72. Holmes 

 considers that serum alone will protect against the inoculated 

 virus for about two weeks only. The present writer, on the 

 basis of experiments, the results of which have not yet been 

 published, is prepared to state that serum exerts no protection 

 whatever against invasion by rinderpest virus. 



The discussion of the nature of the virus of contagious pleuro- 

 pneumonia would have been improved by reference to the work 

 of Bordet, Borre, and others, appearing in the Annales de Tln- 

 stitut Pasteur (1910), 25, No. 3. 



A. R. WARl). 



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