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Professor W. A. Herdman.-Eighteen Reports and author's reprints on Entomology. Professor R. Newstead. Two hundred and three Reports and author's reprints on

Entomology.

Dr. N. M. Surveyor, of Bombay, Executors of the late.-Transactions of the

Medical and Physical Society of Bombay: 1839-71, 1883-89, 1897-1911. United Council for Missionary Education.-China and Modern Medicine, by

Harold Balme, 1921.

The following books were also added to the Library:- Blanc.-Cholera: how to avoid and how treat it, 1873.

Bradley Treatise on worms and other animals which infest the human body, 1813. Clark. Observations on the diseases in long voyages to hot countries, and particu-

larly on those which prevail in the East Indies, 1773. Darling and Smillie.Studies on Hookworm infection in Brazil, 1921. Dewberry-Prevention and destruction of rats, 1920. Genera Insectorum.-Part on Tabanidæ, 1920.

Heath-Plague and Cholera

Knott.-Leprosy, 1911.

1850.

Lalor and Stewart.--Report on S. fasciata at seaports in Burma.

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1791.

Le Clerc.-A natural and medicinal history of worms bred in the bodies of men and

other animals

1721. Ludford-Tentamen medicum inaugurale: De Framboesia Maxwell. Measures for the avoidance. .of flies, etc. Pepper. De la malaria

1891.

Poissonnier Desperrières. Traité des fièvres de l'Isle de S. Domingue, 17688. Reports on Hookworm in (a) Santo Domingo, (b) Siam, (c) Ceylon, (a) Queensland,

(e) Brazil.

Salisbury Malaria: McNaughton Prize Essay, 1885. Story-Cholera: its pathology, diagnosis, and treatment, 1865.

Publications:-

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Carter, H. F, Ingram, A., and Macfie, J. W. S.--Observations on the Ceratopo- gonine midges of the Gold Coast, with descriptions of new species. Part IV. Ann. Trop. Med. and Parasitol. Vol. XV., p. 177.

Descriptions of twelve new species of the genus Dasyhelea. Gordon, R. M., and Young, C. J.-The feeding habits of Stegomyia calopus, Meigen.

Ann. Trop. Med. and Parasitol. Vol. XV, p. 265.

Three experiments were undertaken. These showed that Stegomyia calopus, females, when free of artificial restraint, and with opportunity of selecting day or night for feeding, will bite either by day or night, over a period of fourteen daya after their first blood meal.

Kennan, R. H.--Multiple aneurysms in a child. Ann. Trop. Med. and Parasit.

Vol. XV, p. 245.

The patient, a white child of four, from Sierra Leone, was found to have four tumours, two on the neck and two on the wrist, the etiology of which was obscure. P. falciparum was present in the blood.

Newstead, R., & Evans, Alwen M-Report on Rat-Flea Investigation. Ann. Trop.

Med. & Parasit. Vol. XV, p. 287.

1. Five species of fleas were found to occur on rats from the ships, Port and City of Liverpool. They were: Xenopsylla cheopis, Ceratophyllus fasciatus; Leptopsylla musculi, Ceratophyllus londiniensis, and Ctenocephalus canis.

2. Xenopsylla cheopis occurred freely on ship rats throughout the whole period of the investigation. It was also found on three rats from the dock sheds, and isolated specimens were found on four rats from Zone IIb, and on two rats from Zone III. A permanent breeding place of the species was discovered in certain premises in Zone Ilb.

3. Ceratophyllus fasciatus was universally prevalent during the whole of the investigation. The number of fleas per rat was greatest during the summer months, but the curve of frequency could not be correlated in detail with that of the average temperature.

4. Leptop:ylla musculi was inost prevalent on rats from Zone II. It occurred very rarely upon shin rats. Ceratophyllus londiniensis was found rarely in Zones II and III, and of Ctenocephalus canis one specimen was taken in Zone IȚI. Southwell. T-Cestodes from Indian Poultry. Ann. Trop. Med. & Parasit.

Vol. XV, p. 161.

Southwell, T-Cestodes from African Rats.

Vol. XV, p. 167. Southwell, T.-A new cestoda from a cormorant.

Vol. XV, p. 169.

Ann. Trop. Med. & Parasit.

Ann. Trop. Med. & Parasit.

A description, with figures, of Dilepis kempi, sp.n. Stephens, J. W. W., & Adler, S.-A case of suspected leprosy. Ann. Trop. Med. &

Parasit. Vol. XV, p. 173.

The patient, an English boy from Cape Town, gave clinical evidence of leprosy infection, but repeated examinations for bacilli were negative.

Yorke, W. Recent work on the treatment of sleeping sickness: a critical review.

Trop. Dis. Bull. Vol. XVIII, p. 155.

This paper is a criticism of Marshall and Vassallo's intrathecal treatment of human trypanosomiasis, the author's conclusions being as follows:-

1. The work is based on two fundamental assumptions, both of which are incorrect, or at least can only be accepted with very considerable qualification.

2. The treatment is not new, even for trypanosomiasis, but is substantially the same as that tried by Reichenow in 1914, and abandoned by him as useless in that it failed to sterilize the cerebro-spinal fluid.

3. Marshall and Vassallo produce no satisfactory evidence that intrathecal injections of saltarsanized serum sterilize infected cerebro-spinal fluids.

4. The results, so far published, fail to substantiate the claim that the treat- ment gives better results than any hitherto obtained by other methods. Yorke, W., and Adler, S.-Note on a case of leprosy. Ann. Trop. Med. & Parasit.

Vol. XV, p. 269.

The patient, a native of Hong Kong, came to England in 1912, and was employed as a laundry-man. In 1916 he first noticed small spots on the face. In July, 1920, ham-coloured eruptions appeared on the trunk and limbs, and in February, 1921, swelling of the ala nasi was first observed. In July, 1921, the case was first diagnosed as leprosy, numerous bacilli being found in scrapings from the skin lesions and from the ala nasi.

Yorke, W., & Macfie, J. W. S.-The Mechanism of Autolysis in Paroxysmal

Hæmoglobinuria. Brit. J. Exper. Pathol., 1921. Vol. II, p. 115. When the blood of a case of paroxysmal hæmoglobinuria was cooled at 0°C. for five minutes only, before warming at 37°C. for one hour, the amount of hæmolysis which resulted was about ten times as great as that which occurred when the cooling was prolonged for thirty minutes. The explanation of this depends on the facts that in hæmoglobinuric serum immune body is greatly in excess of complement, and that sensitised red cells take up the mid-piece of the complement at 0°C., whereas the persensitised erythrocytes can only absorb end-piece at higher temperatures. Many more erythrocytes are sensitised after cooling for thirty minutes than for five minutes; consequently, mid-piece is diffused amongst a correspondingly greater number of sensitised erythrocytes. On warming the concentration of end-piece available for each persensitised erythrocyte depends directly on the number of these, and when the number is very great (e.g., after cooling thirty minutes) the concentra- tion is insufficient to produce lysis. The immune body erythrocyte reaction is reversible, but ceases to be so as soon as the erythrocytes have become persensitised. Experiments conducted with the object of determining whether the immune body is thermostable were inconclusive.

Young, C. J.-Natural enemies of Stegomyia calopus, Meigen. Ann. Trop. Med. &

Parasit. Vol. XV, p. 301;

Dragonflies and their larvæ were found to be destructive to Stegomyia calopus and their larvæ respectively. Several other aquatic insects, including water bugs, were also found to be inimical to S. calopus larvæ

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JOHN MIDELEMASS HUNT.

Hon. Dean.