Travaux pratiques de parasitologie.

The growing importance of parasitology in college curriculums for students of medicine and public health as well as in veterinary science, animal husbandry and other special lines makes an increasing demand for a textbook of laboratory methods. The present work is written by two of the best known and most fruitful researchers in the field and it justifies the expectations with which it was opened. After a brief statement of general principles a series of ten laboratory sessions is outlined covering each a group of parasitic forms of which all concern animal parasites save the last, dealing with fungi. At the end comes a valuable appendix on intermediate hosts and reservoirs of virus of human parasites. The individual topics are clearly and concisely handled, well illustrated by sketches that bring out diagnostic characters, and replete with suggestions of marked value for practical work. The book follows the plan developed by