p of the
important discoveries of the preceding year.
HEARSEY, H. Sleeping Sickness. _Jour. Trop. Met. & Hyg._, 12, Sept.
1, 1909, pp. 263-264. Report on work accomplished particularly in
relation to the distribution of _Glossina_ and other biting flies.
JARVIS, C. Sleeping Sickness. _Internat. Clinics_, Vol. II, 1904,
pp. 37-44. Shows the relation of the tsetse-fly to this disease.
LANKESTER, E.R. The Sleeping Sickness. _Quar. Review_, July, 1904,
p. 113. Discovery and early history; the fly, the parasite; other
related parasites. Relation of parasites to their hosts.
MINCHIN, E.A. The AEtiology of Sleeping Sickness. _Nature_, Nov. 15,
1906, pp. 56-59.
WOLLASTON, A.F.R. Amid the Snow Peaks of the Equator: a
Naturalist's Explorations Around Ruwenzori, with an _Account of the
Terrible Scourge of Sleeping Sickness_. _Nat. Geo. Mag._, XX, No.
3, Mar., 1909. Abstracted from "From Ruwenzori to the Congo" by
above author.
Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Com. of the Royal Society, I to
IX, 1903 to 1908. Studies and experiments with the trypanosomes and
flies concerned in this disease. Later articles by this commission
are to be found in the _Pro. Royal Soc._, Series B, LXXXI and
LXXXII.
Sleeping Sickness Bureau Bulletins, 1 to 14, 1908-1910. Records of
studies and experiments with trypanosomes and tsetse-flies, etc.
Transmission of Sleeping Sickness. Editorial in _Jour. Amer. Med.
Assn._, 53, Oct. 2, 1909, pp. 1104-05. Reviews recent experiments
and studies.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN FEVER AND TICKS
ANDERSON, J.F. Spotted Fever (Tick Fever) of the Rocky Mountains.
_Hyg. Lab. Pub. Health and Mar. Hospt. Ser., Bull. 14_, 1903.
Distribution, aetiology, etc. Believes that ticks are responsible
for the transmission of the disease.
COOLEY, R.A. Preliminary Report on the Wood-tick. _Bull. 75, Mont.
Ex. Stn._, 1908. Sums up Ricketts' finding; notes on life-history
in laboratory and field.
KING, W.W. Experimental Transmission of Rocky Mountain Fever by
Means of the Tick. Preliminary note. _Pub. Health and Mar. Hospt.
Ser._, 21, July 27, 1906, pp. 863-864. Conveyed this fever from one
guinea-pig to another by means of the tick.
RICKETTS, H.T. The Transmission of Rocky Mountain Fever by the Bite
of the Wood-tick (_Dermacentor
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