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The authors and publishers are to Ije congratulated upon the excellence 
of the work. It is to be hoped that in a future edition the authors may 
see their way to add descriptions and figures of other species of blood to what 
they have already given in the book under review. We heartily recommend 
the book to the notice of our readers. N. 
Mathis, C. and Leger, M. (1911). Recherches de Parasitologie et de Pathologie 
Jminaines et anirnales au Tonkin, viii + 4.51 pp., 14 coloured plates and many 
text-figures. 25x17 cm. Paris: Masson et Cie. 
This book constitutes a valuable contribution to our knowledge of human 
and animal diseases occurring in and about Tonking, for it describes the 
results of investigations carried out by the authors since 1908. During this 
period the authors have published a number of papers in various French 
journals and these papers have been incorporated in the book, together with a 
remarkably fine series of hitherto unpublished illustrations. Part I (pp. 1-256) 
deals with human diseases : Malaria and the Anophelines of Tonking; relapsing 
fever; beri-beri; Helminthiasis, giving the results of the examination of the 
stools in 1250 healthy natives and of 200 healthy Europeans; intestinal 
flagellates ; amoebic dysentery and hepatitis; Filariasis in northern Indo-China. 
Part II (pp. 257-430) deals with animal diseases: the malarial parasites of 
monkeys; the description of species of Haemoproteus, Leucocytozoon., Haemo- 
gregarina., Piroplasma, Trypanosoma, Trypanoplasma; Spirochaeta in the rabbit; 
Filana, etc. A classified list of animals examined, together with their parasites, 
concludes the section. 
Malaria (tertian, quartan and tropical) is irregularly distributed in Tonking, 
the endemic index averaging 6’63. Fifteen species of Anophelines (none new) 
are described, and their relation to malaria considered. The authors infected 
monkeys and mice with tire spirochaetes obtained from human cases of 
relapsing fever, but failed to transmit infection by means of lice. A new 
flagellate, Prowazeh'a weinhergi, occurring in diarrhoeic stools, is described, the 
parasite having been successfully cultivated with bacteria and its development 
followed. The most interesting sections of Part II are those dealing with 
Leucocytozoa and Trypanosoma. It is sad that the authors’ beautiful figures 
are reproduced by the three-colour process upon the perishable glazed paper 
which is so commonly used nowadays, a paper which should be discarded in 
publishing a work of such high merit. N. 
Neveu-Lemaire, M. (1912). Parasitologie des Animaux Domestiqnes, maladies 
jiarasitaires non-bacteriennes. 1257 pp., 770 text-figures. 18x14 cm. Paris: 
J. Lamarre et Cie, 4 Rue Antoine Dubois (vi®). Price 16 francs, cloth. 
This work is intended for the use of parasitologists, zoologists and veteri¬ 
narians in particular. It covers a very wide field, dealing with parasitology 
both in temperate and tropical countries. Part i (pp. 15-182) deals with 
vegetable parasites. Part ii (pp. 183 et seq.) with animal parasites: Protozoa, 
Vermes, and Arthropoda. At the end of the volume there occur (a) a very 
complete list of the parasites of domesticated animals, the parasites being 
arranged according to the situations in which they occur upon the host, (h) a 
short general bibliography, and (c) full indices to the subject-matter. Many 
references to the literature are given in footnotes throughout the book. The 
