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cieties and States; who, one and all, at 

 the impulse as it were of the same mo- 

 ving" power, are inspired with the noble 

 ambition of stamping out a plague, the 

 ravages of which may be estimated by 

 the enormous death-rate show in the 

 Statistical Tables of all nations. 



The fatal effects of Tuberculosis in 

 mand and cattle are felt with varying 

 intensity in all parts of the world, and 

 if Science is still impotent to check 

 them, it is to be hoped that the conjoint 

 efforts of Government and Scientific 

 Institutions will not prove fruitless, 

 and that keeping in view the general 

 laws which govern the phenomena of 

 life, the precise form to destroy tuber- 

 culosis may be discovered. 



The Argentine Government has taken 

 an active part in the struggle. The pre- 

 sent work, a brief of an extensive re- 

 port drawn up by the Cattle Board' 

 offers one of many proofs of the inte- 

 rest with which the Scientific struggle 



