Proceedings of the Society, xxxi, 



t and that when asked what will be their position in the event 

 » of another failure of that crop, the answer is : In that casewe 

 J can do nothing but lie down and die ! When it was suggested to 

 » tbem thai a better and safer return from the land oiigbt be 

 » obtained by means of Oais, Bean-, Peas and Turnips, the 

 » repljf was thu they had no seed !....» 



1 The following consequence deduced by the Author of (his 

 present article is melancholy, and perhaps somewhat hard to 

 be borne out in its rigii logic, and we trust that our Planters at 

 Mauritius may not be reduced to the extremity of applying it to 

 themselves : 



« If the cultivators of the Irish soil will persist in gambling 

 » in potatoes, and if the landowners will make noefl'ortsto 

 « restrain it, and to introduce a safer and more rational system 



> of cultivation, both parties must abide by the consequences. 

 » The former must not be surprised if they are overwnelmed 

 » with poor's rates, nor the latter if their estates pass into otiur 

 1 hands. One thing is certain, that to pay the stakes for them 



> in case of failure by grants from the Imperial Treasury, lends 

 » only to encourage ttiis recklessness, and that the sooner all 

 * classes in Ireland are convinced that they will be left to their 



> own resources, the sooner will they learn the necessity of self- 

 » exertion, -i 



> NVe here, by a natural transition, come to speak of the cor- 

 respondence which, at thesuggtstion of your Honorable Presi- 

 dent, took place on the subject between your Secretary and the 

 Ucdical Society of Uauriuus. 



* The object of this oommuoication on your part, was to 

 ascertain whether the Physicians and Veterinary Surgeons who 

 are Members of the Medical Society, had not, in the course of 

 tbeir practice, and since the appearance ef the disease in the 

 sugar canes, observed both in man and in the inferior animals, 

 a greater predisposition ihan usual to contract certain of those 

 affections, the cause of which maj be traced to some influence 

 of the aimosphere ; such iofluence maoifeMiDg itseH either oo 



