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"The work has advanced sufficiently to state that temporary 

 immunity is assured to a certain degree." That means over 

 certain areas and over smaller things with which we have had 

 to deal in the bacteriological laboratory. "And spore develop- 

 ment in affected areas has been arrested." 



Now we have started out largely with the idea that dog will 

 eat dog and that we will have to meet this from the bacteriolo- 

 gical standpoint. I do not know ; and 1 do not promise success. 

 We are going ahead with this work and many experiments will 

 have to be preformed this spring. I am not sure that we are 

 going to be successful, anl I am not going to tell you whether it 

 is going to be a toxin or an anti-toxin, as we might call it, or a 

 serum which can be used. 



ME. STEVENS: This is a very interesting paper and we 

 enjoyed it; but we have taken up so far in our Conference the 

 negative side of the question and, with the limited time left, I 

 think we have all we can do to consider ways and means of pro- 

 cedure. I think it should be the sense of the meeting that we 

 should give the remaining two hours of time to positive work, 

 in the procedure of the work of this Conference. 



DR. MICKLEBOROUGH : I have no desire to prolong this 

 discussion at all against the wish and the unanimous consent of 

 the Conference, and I am not wishing to create a false impres- 

 sion. What we may be able to produce I do not know. I do 

 know this, that it is something that ought to be encouraged, 

 just as much as when the sleeping sickness in Africa killed a 

 million of the tribes of Africa. The white man did not say, "Let 

 them die" but rose up, as a man, the rebel in nature, and saici 

 "I will not die, but I will destroy that which is destroying me,'' 

 and I am taking that position now. We are trying to see if there 

 is not something that can be done to destroy the chestnut tree 

 blight. I yield to the gentleman ; if there is any objection, I do 

 not wish to continue. 



THE CHAIRMAN : The matter before us comprises the 

 papers of this morning, with their various bearings, and the 

 paper of the afternoon. There are four distinct subjects. 



DR. SMITH: There has been a manifest desire that all pos- 

 sible information be given here of the experiments of Dr. Metcalfe 



