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the Committee. Much close and original 

 work, it is known, has been done by the 

 Committee, not only in investigating the 

 supposed actual or predisposing causes of 

 grouse disease, some of which have here 

 been mentioned, but in a searching 

 examination of every other clue or proba- 

 bility which promised to be of use in the 

 elucidation of the problem the Committee 

 have for the last six years been endeavour- 

 ing to solve. It is said that their efforts 

 have been largely successful, and that the 

 roots and scope of the two principal 

 diseases to which grouse have in the 

 past been so much subjected have been 

 definitely ascertained, and that equally 

 definite views have been formed of 

 measures for the prevention or cure of 

 the maladies. 



The Interim Report of the Committee 

 of Investigation, published by the Board 

 of Agriculture in August 1908, is largely 

 occupied with details of the methods 

 adopted in opening out the inquiry. It 

 refers also to observations in the field 



