Report on the Openmj of a Round Barrow, Sc. 77 



regards these samples, and I was g^^atly pleased to find my pre- 

 dictions borne out upon subsequently bemg put to the test by 

 rearing larv^ from the seeds. The practical B^Btion o 

 Pasteur for eliminating the disease seems to be b^t a tedK^us 

 wncess as indeed revocare qradum usually is. it was inis . 

 KrTng in mTnd tbat the disease is hereditary, and bearing in 

 mindtoe various ways by which healthy worms may become m- 

 Hed fiom the company of diseased worms, he suggests that 

 ommencing with the se'ed which by microscopical examm^^^^^^^^^ 

 promises the most success, each worm ^%^* ^.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

 kept apart, and each worm should during its b^^ be kept m soli 

 tary confinement. Those which show signs of Pf^^l^f^^?"^^.^^ 

 promptly destroyed, and only those which ultimately ^^^b the 

 finest cocoons should be kept to reproduce their ^Pe^^es Th^J^ 

 by careful selection and rigid seclusion alone can one once more 



^'t^ rgttmen,t a concentrated extract of Pasteur's report 

 on the disease of silkworms. His patient investigations of the 

 dLase extended oL five years, each fact discovered was assigned 

 its proper place, and each deduction from it was made m that 

 masterW manner which, in this as in many other matters, has 

 made PasTeur^s name a household word. Whether he mvesti- 

 JTte the Serioration m wine, the chicken cbofera hydrophoka 

 or Pebrine. he always combines Patient mvestigation with acute 

 reasoning in a manner which commands our admiration and is 

 past all praise. 



112 — Eepoet on the Opening of a Round Barrow, and a 

 SUPPOSED "saxon Burial, on the South Downs near 

 Arundel, April 15th, 1893. 



By E. Lovett. 

 (Bead May 12th, 1893.) 



Through the kindness of Mr. CoUyer, a few members of the 

 Croydon Microscopical and Natural History Club paid a visit to 

 AruS on SaturLy, April 15th 1893, for the P-PO^^ °4^--. 

 or^opHna the opening of a round barrow on the boutli Uowns , 

 Tdi have been a'ked to make a report upon ^hat was found 

 Before however, coming to the subject of this paper, it might 

 Stte'restTng to' briefly allude to the princiP^l -ethods^ d- 

 posing of the dead in various countries, and at the diflerent 



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