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IN the new edition of this well-known and excellent manual amoeba from the soil are recommended for study as a substitute for the larger species Amoeba proteus, when this is not available, and two types not hitherto included-the large trypanosome of the dogfish and a tapeworm-are described. Careful directions are given for preparing a culture of the soil amoebae and for obtaining trypano-somes by centrifuging the blood of the dogfish, the trypanosomes present being carried down with the blood corpuscles to the bottom of the tube, whence they can be withdrawn with a pipette for examination in a drop of the plasma.
A Junior Course of Practical Zoology.
By the late Prof. A. Milnes Marshall Dr. C. Herbert Hurst. Eighth edition, revised by Prof. F. W. Gamble. Pp. xxxvi + 515. (London: John Murray, 1918.) Price 12s. net.
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A Junior Course of Practical Zoology . Nature 102, 404 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/102404b0
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