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THE investigations of the late Sir William Herdman on the pearl fisheries of Ceylon, begun in 1902, suggested infection with larval cestodes as a cause of pearl formation and thus directed attention to the cestode parasites of fishes found in Indian seas. The reports on these by the late Sir Arthur Shipley and Mr. James Hornell were followed by a series of papers by Dr. Southwell, who later turned his attention also to the cestodes of Indian land vertebrates. Since the War a number of other helmin-thologists have given a good deal of attention to Indian cestodes. Dr. Southwell has now produced the first volume of a monograph which will be found of great value as bringing together the results of all these researches, hitherto scattered in many scientific periodicals.
The Fauna of British India: including Ceylon and Burma.
Published under the Authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Lieut.-Col. J. Stephenson. Cestoda. Vol. 1. By Dr. T. Southwell. Pp. xxxi + 391. (London: Taylor and Francis, 1930.) 22s. 6d.
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The Fauna of British India: including Ceylon and Burma . Nature 126, 951 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126951b0
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