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the President of that department, by the Secretary of the Inter- 
national Medical Congress lately held in London, drawing his 
attention to an address delivered by Professor Pasteur, of Paris, 
relative to the germ theory in connection with the inoculation of 
animals, as a means of protecting them against virulent diseases. 
In that address M. Pasteur says they lose in France, every year, 
by splenic fever, animals to the value of 20,000,c00f. He then 
gives the result of an experiment he had been requested to make 
at a town in France. Fifty sheep were placed at his disposal, of 
which twenty-five were vaccinated, and the remainder underwent 
no treatment. A fortnight afterwards, the fifty sheep were inocu- 
lated with the most virulent anthracoid microbe. The twenty-five 
which had been vaccinated resisted the infection, whilst the twenty- 
five unvaccinated died of splenic fever within fifty hours. Since 
that time the capabilities of his laboratory have been inadequate to 
meet the demand of farmers for a supply of this vaccine. In the 
space of fifteen days they vaccinated in the departments surround- 
ing Paris more than 20,000 sheep, besides a large number of cattle 
and horses. M. Pasteur says: ‘I cannot conclude this address 
without expressing the great pleasure I feel at the thought that it 
is as a member of an international medical congress assembled in 
England that I make known the most recent results of vaccination 
upon a disease more terrible perhaps to domestic animals than 
smallpox is to man.” 
THE BRITISH BEE-KEEPER’S ASSOCIATION AT SOUTH KENSING- 
ToN.—For the best microscopic slides illustrating the natural 
history of the honey bee, Mr. F. Enock most deservedly carried 
off the silver medal. The slides were four dozen in number, and 
if not unapproachable are certainly as yet unapproached. The 
preparation of parts zz s¢#w without pressure gives an opportunity 
of examining structure that flattened chitin could never afford. 
The beauty of these objects when properly illuminated must be 
seen to be appreciated. On some slides he brings side by side the 
homologous parts of drone, worker, and queen, which gives a ready 
means of comparison, and on others displays the parts illustrative 
of the complete anatomy of the insect. Some clever sections and 
some specimens of the interesting parasite Stylops Spenceri were 
included in the collection.—/ournal of Horticulture. 
InsEcTs MOUNTED WITHOUT PRESSURE.—We have just received 
a splendid specimen of the preparer’s art from Mr. Fred. Enock, a 
bee’s head mounted without pressure, and is a beautiful as well as 
an instructive object when properly illuminated. We wish the pre- 
parer every success as he is endeavouring to improve upon the 
wretched squashed skins so often offered for sale under the names of 
Insects, 
