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THERE can be no more conclusive evidence of the vigour with which scientific researches are pursued in Germany than the fact that a circulation is found for a periodical publication devoted entirely to the study of parasites, animal and vegetable. We find in the present number reports of observations on the Aspergillus glaucus, and two other newly-discovered parasitic Fungi, found in the passages of the ear, and connected with certain forms of deafness, and a description of a cure in the case of the former species by the external application of alcohol. The greater part of the number is devoted to a dissertation by Dr. Hallier on the parasites of infectious diseases. A portion of this paper is occupied by a discussion whether the minute Myxogastres found on decayed wood, grass, &c., belong to the animal or vegetable kingdom. Since the only high authority who has maintained the animal nature of these parasites, Dr. de Bary, in opposition to Fries, Berkeley, and others, has since apparently altered his views, the question may now be considered as disposed of. If the apparent spontaneous motion of the young germinating spores of Trichia and other Fungi be considered proof of an animal nature, the same argument must be applied to the zoospores of certain Algae.
Parasitology.—Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde.
Herausgegeben von Dr. E. Hallier Dr. F. A. Zürn. Band I. Zweites Heft. 8vo. pp. 126, with 2 Plates, price 3s. (Jena, 1869. London: Williams and Norgate.)
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B., A. Parasitology—Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde. Nature 1, 165 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001165b0
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