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Tsetse Fly.-Arrangements have been made for the carrying out of experiments on the Cape Lighthouse Peninsula in connection with Glossina palpalis. This area was visited by an expedition of the School in 1914, and the reports were published in the Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. Clearing of the area was carried out with good results, but owing to various causes operations had to be suspended.
The fly was present there again in fair numbers, and it is purposed to undertake some experimental work as soon as possible. Funds have been allocated for this purpose by the Government.
In conclusion, we desire to acknowledge our indebtedness to the Civil and Military authorities for facilities granted to us and for assistance in procuring material.
Mandos Research Laboratory.-Dr. Gordon, the last of the three research assistants to be sent out to Manács, returned home on 27th February after a year's service and sent in his resignation. Only the director, Dr. Wolferstan Thomas, remains at the Laboratory and no report on the work done during the past six months has yet come to hand.
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Adler, S.-The Trypanocidal Effect of Phenylglycine Amido Arsenate of Sodium on T, brucei in Rats and T. rhodesiense in Mice. Ann. Trop. Med. and Parasit, Vol. XV., p. 427.
For rats infected with T. brucei, the minimum curative dose is 0.7 gm. per kilo of body weight. In vitro the drug has no appreciable action on try- panosomes, nor has the blood of treated animals twenty-four hours after becoming trypanosome-free. The drug has no curative effect on mice infected with T. rhodesiense. The minimum lethal dose was found to be 1-2 gms. per kilo for rats and 3 gms. for mice.
Note on Bismuth as a Trypanocide. Ann. Trop. Med. and Parasit. Vol. XV., p. 433.
T. rhodesiense: the minimum lethal dose cleared the blood of trypanosomes in a mouse within 24 hours, but the animal died in two days. Any dose below this failed to clear the blood of trypanosomes.
T. brucei (Nagana ferox): although the drug cleared the blood of trypano- somes in guinea-pigs, relapses occurred in a few days.
Blacklock, B.-Breeding places of Anopheline Mosquitoes in Freetown, Sierra
Leone. Ann. Trop. Med. and Parasit. Vol. XV., p. 463.
The published account of the survey noted in the last report.
Notes on an Apparatus for the Individual Breeding of Mosquitoes. Ann. Trop. Med. and Parasit. Vol. XV., p. 473.
Blacklock, B., and Adler, S.-A Parasite resembling Plasmodium falciparum in a Chimpanzee. Ann. Trop. Med, and Parasit. Vol. XVI., p. 99. See report from Professor Blacklock.
Davey, J. B., and Newstead, R.-Mosquitoes and other Blood-sucking Arthropods of the Upper Shiré River, Nyasaland. Ann. Trop. Med, and Parasit. Vol. XV.,
P. 457.
Includes accounts-of Culicidae, Psychodidae, Tabanidae, Pupipara, Hemip- tera and Ixodidae.
Evans, A. M.-Notes on Culicidae collected in Venezuela. Ann. Trop. Med. and
Parasit. Vol. XV.,
P. 445.
A list of the species collected by Professor Stephens at Mene Grande, with an account of the morphological characters of Anopheles argyrotarsis, R.D., and A. albimanus, Wied.
Maplestone, P. A.Notes on Australian Cestodes. Parts I. II, and III. Ann.
Trop. Med. and Parasit. Vol. XV., pp. 403 and 407; Vol. XVI., p. 55. Part I. deals with seven previously described Cestodes in new hosts. Parts II and III. two new species, Angularia australis and Cotugnia oli- gorchis, are described and figured.
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Maplestone, P. A., and Southwell, T.-Notes on Australian Cestodes. Part IV.
Ann. Trop. Med, and Parasit. Vol. XVI., p. 61.
A description of the Cestode Gyrocoelia australiensis.
Newstead, R.-A new species of Phlebotomus from Trinidad. Ann Trop. Med, and
Parasit. Vol XVI., p. 47.
Description of Phlebotomus trinidadensis, the first recorded species of Phlebotomus from the West Indies.
Newstead, R., and Evans, A. M.-A new Tsetse-fly from the South Cameroons,
Ann. Trop. Med. and Parasit. Vol. XVI., p. 51.
Description of Glossina haningtoni, n. sp., a species closely related to G. fusca. Southwell, T., and Maplestone, P. A.-A Note on the Synonymy of the genus Zschokkeella, Ransom, 1909, and of the species Ž. guineensis (Graham, 1908). Ann. Trop. Med. and Parasit. Vol. XV., P. 455. Stephens, J. W. W.-Malaria on a Venezuelan Oilfield.
Parasit. Vol. XV., p. 435.
Ann. Trop. Med. and
The published results of a visit to an oilfield on the eastern side of Lake Maracaibo, summarized in the last report.
Undulant Fever in the Naval, Military and Civilian Populations of Malta. Ann. Trop. Med, and Parasit. Vol. XVI., p. 11.
An inquiry, based upon statistical evidence, into the prevalence of undu. lant fever in Malta from about the year 1900. The tables show that while the infection rates in 1905 for the three population groups concerned were respectively 18.8, 775 and 40 per mille per annum, in 1907, the Mediter- ranean Fever Commission having been at work for two years, these rates had fallen to 13, 1·9, and 2-7.
Yorke, Warrington.-The Treatment of a Case of Rhodesian Sleeping Sickness by the Preparation known as "Bayer 205." Ann, Trop. Med. and Parasit. Vol. XV., p. 479.
At the time of treatment the patient had been infected for at least 8 months, was extremely ill and had been getting steadily worse for months, the infection being completely resistant to the ordinary preparations of antimony and arsenic.
"Bayer 205," 0:5 gm. in 5 per cent. solution, was given intravenously, with the result that the fever subsided in six hours and trypanosomes dis- appeared from the blood within sixteen hours. A further injection of 1 gm. in 10 per cent. solution was given on each of the two following days. During an observation period of four months all symptoms of the disease disappeared, the general condition of the patient improved enormously, his weight increased by 18 lbs. and he returned to Rhodesia.
Young, C. J.-Human Intestinal Protozoa in Amazonas. Ann. Trop. Med. and
Parasit. Vol. XVI., p. 93.
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Five hundred persons living in Manáos were examined for intestinal protozoa. It was found that the percentage of E. histolytica cysts recorded was somewhat higher than those reported from other countries for which figures are available, excepting Malta.
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J. MIDDLEMASS HUNT,
Honorary Dean.
THE LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 18th November, 1922.)
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Notes on Ulcerative Granuloma. Ann. Trop. Med. and Parasit. Vol. XV., p. 413.
Account of cases of Granuloma-among Australian aborigines.
Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, S.E.10, 15th November, 1922. HEREWITH I have the honour to submit the half-yearly reports of the following Departments in the London School of Tropical Medicine :-
Entomology. Helminthology. Protozoology.
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