CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Preface ^ 



Eeport ou the Lung Plague, by Professor Joliu Gamgee, M. D 7 



Appeudix No. 1.— Tabular statement of Mortality in Cattle, by Mr. John Reid 73 



Appendices Nos. 2 and 3.— Tables of Dutch experiments on Inoculation, 1st and 



2d series '^4 



Report on the 111 Effects of Smutty Corn on Cattle, by Professor John Gamgee, M. D. 78 



Eeport on the Splenic or Periodic Fever of Cattle, by Professor John Gamgee, M. D. 90 



General remarks on the cattle diseases reported on 162 



Remarks on the Ixodes Bovis, by C. N. Riley, St. Louis, Missouri 168 



Letter of Mr. H. W. Ravenel, South Carolina, on the Fungi of Texas 169 



Eeport of results of examinations of Fluids of Diseased Cattle with reference to 



presence of Cryptogamic Growth, by Doctors Billings and Curtis, U. S. A 174 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



COPPERPLATE. 



Fig. 1. — Micrococcus. 



2.' — Bacteria. 



3. — Cryptococcus, (common form.) 



4. — Cryptococcus guttulatus, (Ch. Robin.) 



5. — Penicillium crustaceum, (Fr. old.) 



7. — Aspergillus. 



8, 9, 10.— Mncor racemosus, (Fres.,) from Hoffman. 

 11. — Blood from splenic fever X 450. 

 12.— Bacteria from bile of splenic fever X 1,200. 

 13. — Mycelium with sporangial dilations, result of culture of splenic fever blood. 



WOODCUTS. 



14. — A vacuum tul)e. 

 15. — Isolation apparatus. 

 16. — Culture apparatus. 

 17. — Development apparatus. 

 18. — Ixodes Bovis. 



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