BOOKS.

IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ANIMAL HEALTH : THE VETERINARY BULLETIN.

Since the appearance of our last issue we have received the first 2 numbers of
the Veterinary Bulletin, the official organ of the Imperial Bureau of Animal Health,
a notice regarding which is printed below. The need for such a comprehensive
abstracting journal as this, which deals with all matters affecting the health of
domesticated animals in tropical as well as temperate climates, has been long felt,
and the high standard reached in the first numbers justifies us in drawing special
attention to this publication. Judging from the abstracts contained in the above
two numbers the information given should be sufficiently full to enable busy men
to keep in touch with current work without being compelled themselves to study
the great mass of literature from which the abstracts are taken, and we feel that
these numbers have only to be seen to ensure wide circulation for such a valuable
source of authentic information. We feel also that the appearance of this bulletin
marks a great step forward towards that co-ordinated development of Veterinary
Research within the Empire, which is so necessary in order that the Veterinary Pro-
fession may keep abreast of the constant advances of scientific knowledge, which
occur almost daily, in regard to matters affecting the health of domesticated
animals all over the world.

It is impossible to mention in detail the many matters dealt with in a bulletin
of this kind but an extensive review, running to 5 pages of print, of the uses of
B. C. G. vaccine, may be mentioned to indicate the extent of some of the abstracts,
while it may be stated that the generality of the abstracts, though not so full,
sufficiently described the matter dealt with to enable useful conclusions to be
formed. [A. O.]

The Imperial Agricultural Research Conference, in 1927, recommended that
the Tropical Veterinary Bulletin, hitherto published by the Bureau of Hygiene and
Tropical Diseases, should be merged in a more comprehensive publication,
which, it was proposed, should be published by the Imperial Bureau of Animal
Health. Arrangements have accordingly been made with the Bureau of
Hygiene and Tropical Diseases whereby the publication of the Tropical Veterinary
Bulletin has been discontinued with its number of December, 1930, and in its
place a new Journal, under the title of the Veterinary Bulletin, will be issued
by this Bureau.

The Veterinary Bulletin will deal with all aspects of Animal Health, in so far as
they relate to original research and to administrative control, but it will not deal

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