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THIS new volume of the “Thompson-Yates and Johnston Laboratories Reports” opens with obituary notices of the Rev. Stephen Yates, to whose munificence the Thompson-Yates Laboratories owe their foundation, and of Prof. Nocard. The preliminary report of the trypanosoma expedition to Senegambia of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine occupies two-thirds of the volume, the authors being Mr. Dutton and Dr. Todd, to whom praise is due for the careful and detailed account of their journey and researches. (This has also been published as a separate report.) The laboratory methods of investigation are first described, and the results of the examination of a number of natives and of various animals for the presence of trypanosomata are then detailed. Only a small proportion of natives was found to be infected, and various experiments on the transmission and pathology of the trypanosoma are given at length. Horses were found to suffer from a fatal trypanosoma disease differing apparently in some respects from nagana. Trypanosomes were also detected in a number of birds, frogs, tortoise, mice, &c. The report is copiously illustrated, and forms an important contribution to the subject of trypanosomiasis, the appended bibliography being a very full one. Mr. Theobald adds notes on the species of mosquitoes collected in this expedition. Among these is a new species coming very near Stegomyia, for which a new genus is created, Catageiomyia. Prof. Ronald Ross contributes a brief article on a new human parasite, the Leishmann-Donovan body, which has already been referred to in these columns (NATURE, vol. lxix. p. 495). Messrs. Glynn and Matthews give some interesting details of the numbers of bacteria and their variation under different conditions in swimming baths, and Dr. Stephens and Prof. Boyce detail the examination of a diseased haddock, with description of a parasite the nature of which is not clear. The general “get-up” of the volume maintains the standard of its predecessors, paper, printing, and illustrations all being excellent.
The Thompson-Yates and Johnston Laboratories Report.
Vol. v. (New Series). Part ii. December, 1903. (Published for the University Press of Liverpool by Longmans, Green and Co.) Price 12s. 6d.
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HEWLETT, R. The Thompson-Yates and Johnston Laboratories Report . Nature 70, 197 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070197b0
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