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lation to gangrene, the viruses, and experi- 

 ments in inoculation, unless we have quarters 

 suitable for receiving animals, whether alive or 

 dead? Butcher's meat brings an exorbitant 

 price in Europe, but it is a superfluity in 

 Buenos Ayres. How is it possible, in a cramped 

 laboratory lacking in the necessary resources, 

 to apply all the various tests to processes which, 

 perhaps, render the preservation and transpor- 

 tation of meat a simple matter? The disease 

 popularly known as sang de rate (splenic apo- 

 plexy) causes in the district of Beauce an an- 

 nual loss of four million francs; it would be 

 indispensable to go there, no doubt for several 

 successive seasons, at the period of the great- 

 est heat, and spend several weeks in the en- 

 virons of Charente, in order to carry on a series 

 of minute observations. 



"These researches and a thousand others, 

 which, according to my belief, are related to the 

 great phenomenon of the transformation of or- 

 ganic matter after death and the enforced re- 

 turn of every living thing to the soil and the 



