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parts of the State where the disease is now prevalent, and I submit that the 

 splendid results above given demand that a fair and extensive trial be made. In 

 a large part of Indiana, namely, where there is natural gas, the experiment will 

 cast but little either in money or trouble, and if it is efficacious as it seems to have f 

 been in this one case, to arrest the progress of the disease after it breaks out in the * 

 drove, it will very richly repay the expense and trouble in every part of the 

 Gauntry. The (juestion does not alone concern the farmer whose hogs die ; it is 

 the policy of many raisers to sell fattening hogs as soon as the disease breaks out, 

 and there can be no question that much diseased meat is every year on the general 

 market. 



Prof. Xoyes, of the Hygienic Laboratory of Ann Arbor, writes me, under date 

 of December 20th, that he does not know of any experimentation on a large scale 

 along this line. He ha«, I know, given much attention to the diseases, and would 

 be likely to know of such experiments if they had been made. Both the general 

 government and the governments of several of the States are spending large sums 

 of money at experiment stations for the arrest of this disease. The results so far 

 reached, interesting from a scientific standpoint, are useless in the field because of 

 the skill and expense which the application of the remedies requires. The pur- 

 pose of presenting this paper here is to secure, if possible, the co-operation of a 

 hundred stock-raisers in different parts of the State, and differently surrounded, 

 that a demonstrative test of this simple remedy may, in the next twelve months, 

 be had. The animals experimented upon must be isolated from all sources from 

 which they can obtain drink, and given only water to drink which has just been 

 boiled ; it should be served as hot as the hogs will drink it in clean troughs. Can 

 we secure these experiments tried in this way. Six dips in Jordan and one in 

 Parphar will be no experiment at all. It would be worth while for us to show, if 

 we can, that on the White River, also, the simple is the sublime. 



The "Hopkins Seaside Laboratory" at Pacific Grove, Cal. By B. M.^ 



Davis. 



[Abstract.] 



The great variety in fauna and flora, both in inland and marine forms, make 



the Pacific Slope and Coast, particularly that included in California, attractive 



to naturalists. As soon as Dr. Oliver P. Jenkins and Dr. Chas. H. Gilbert took 



their places in the Stanford faculty they recognized the resources of the coast 



from the standpoint of biologists. They immediately began to consider plans for 



establishing a biological station on the coast, and, after a careful survey of the 



whole coast, decided on Pacific Grove as the best location. The first substantial 



