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G. D. BHALERAO has prepared a list of the helminth parasites hitherto recorded from domesticated animals in India (Imperial Council of Agricultural Research. Scientific Monograph No. 6. Pp. 365. Delhi, 1935. 13#. 3c£.). A brief account of the technique of collecting, preserving and preparing the parasites for examination precedes the systematic account, which is provided with the usual keys and with illustrations to facilitate identification and to show structural features. The illustrations are for the most part satisfactory, but the author's photograph of a much distorted transverse section of Parascaris equorum could have been omitted. The memoir will be helpful to those who are interested in the helminths of Indian domestic animals. It is marred by a considerable number of misprints which necessitated the addition of a slip correcting more than fifty errata. One of these is “for Linneas read Linnaes” and on reference to the page cited we find “Linneas 1858” which should, of course, be “Linnaeus, 1758”; more care in reading the proof would have been well repaid in the result.
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Indian Helminths. Nature 137, 651–652 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137651d0
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