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MISCELLANEOUS. 
Deeks, W. E., and James, W. M. (1911). A Report on Heyiioglohinuric Fever in the 
Canal Zone: a study of its etiology and treatment. 177 pp. Canal Zone: 
Isthmian Canal Commission Press, Quartermaster’s Department, Mount Hope. 
Fourth Report (1911) of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at the Gordon 
Memorial College, Khartoum (A. Balfour, Director). Vol. A —Medical. 404 pp. 
with 14 coloured plates and 160 text-figs., maps and plans. Vol. B —General 
kScience. 333 pp. with 9 coloured plates and 180 text-figs., maps and plans. 
Loudon; Baillihre, Tindall & Cox, 8, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. 
28 X 20 cm. Price 18/-. 
Contents of Volume ^1—Medical. Introduction—Changes and Plans—The 
Future of Scientific Work in the Sudan—Sleeping Sickness in the Anglo- 
Egyptian Sudan—Investigation of Natural Conditions in the Bahr-El-Ghazal 
—Animal Trypanosomes —Trypanosoma hrucei —Human Spirochaetosis—The 
Spirochaete of Egyptian Eelapsing Fever—Spirochaetosis of Sudanese Fowls— 
Method of Obtaining Blood Aseptically for the Culture of Haematozoa in the 
Tropics—Fallacies and Puzzles of Blood Examination—Kala-azar in the Kassala 
and Blue Nile Districts and Eastern Sudan—General and Pathological Eeports 
of the Kala-azar Commission—The Alkalinity of the Blood Serum in Kala-azar 
—Herpetomonas lygaei —Descriptions of Cases of Kala-azar, Non-Ulcerating 
Sore, “ Oriental Sore,” Parasitic Granuloma, Veldt Sore, Ulcus tropicum, 
Leiicoderma—Fevers in the Sudan—Pyrexia—Diphtheria in the Tropics— 
Some Asioocts of Tropical Sanitation—Sanitary Notes—The Water-supply of 
Towns in the Tropics—Lactose-fermenting bacilli in Surface "Water, etc.— 
Filtering Properties of the Zeer—Human Botryomycosis—Veterinary Notes— 
Miscellaneous Notes on Haematozoa, Howell-Horrocks Bodies in the Human 
Blood, Mycetoma, Lei^rosy, Dysentery, Peculiar Bodies in the Inte.stinal 
Lymphoid Follicles of an Egyptian—Routine Work—Index. 
The foregoing list of subjects of which this volume treats indicates the 
important character of the publication. The book is illustrated throughout in 
an excellent manner. 
Contents of Volume B —General Science. Introduction—Report of the 
Chemical Section: A Test for Hashish, Khartoum Water-supply, Sobat River 
Water, Mechanical Analysis of Arid Soils, Soils of the Gezira, Gypsum as a 
Fertiliser for Sudan Soils, Gum Research, Experiments on Gum Pi'oduction in 
Koi'dofan, Preliminary Notes on the Chemistry of the Latex of Calotropis 
procera —Report of the Entomological Section—Insects Injurious to Man and 
Animals—Animals Injurious to Farm and Garden Crops—Plant Diseases 
Ordinance—A New Genus and Two New Species of Culicidae from the Sudan 
—The Finches and AVeaver Birds of the Sudan—Scorjuons and Allied Annulated 
Spiders of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan—Two Specimens of Spitting-Snakes 
from Southern Rhodesia—Sudan Spitting-Snake —Herpetomonas aspongopi — 
Ancient Gold Mining in the Sudan—Cult of Nyakang and the Divine Kings of 
the Shilluk—Some Tribal Customs in Their Relation to the Medicine and Morals 
of the Nyani-Nyam and Gour Peoples inhabiting the Bahr-El-Ghazal—Muni¬ 
cipal Engineering Problems in the Tropics—Index. 
