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the fungi would appear on it.—Mr. E. Soy believed that the disease 
depended on chemical changes, not on the attack of a fungus.—Mr. 
Busu had examined the diseased potatoes under the microscope, and in 
the early stages had always failed to discover the slightest indication of 
the existence of a fungus. the disease advances, first one fungus 
appears, and then another,—and at last animal life. This was the pro- 
gress of all vegetable decay. The disease always commences on the 
outside of the potato, and proceeds to the centre. He had also found 
he disease constantly attended with the development of crystals of ox- 
alate of lime.—Prof. BaLrour stated that some fungi attacked living and 
healthy structures,—others only diseased ones. ‘The fungus of the po- 
tato was a Botrytis; which he believed attacked healthy structures.— 
Mr. A. Srricxnanp said, in reference to Dr. Buckland’s recommendation 
to mow down the potatoes, that when his neighbors mowed down their 
potatoes he dug his up. They had lost nearly all theirs, whilst he had 
saved nearly all his.—Dr. LanxesTEx remarked on the want of evidence 
to support the theories of either cause or remedies that had been 
brought forward. Cold and heat had been said to act, by destroying 
the tissues of the potato; but no destroyed tissues had been n to 
exist. Debility had also been supposed to exist ; but no proof was giv- 
en of the existence of debility : and the Dean of Westminster himself 
had admitted that he had seen the healthiest potatoes destroyed in three 
ays. Positive observation was evidently opposed to the fungus theory. 
not been more successful than letting them alone ; and it ought now to 
be known, that this meeting had done nothing more valuable than to 
show the insufficiency of all theories and remedies hitherto advanced. 
5. On the Educational Statistics of Oxford, (Proc. Brit. Assoc., 
— from the Atheneum, Sept. 19, 1846.)—Mr. Heywoop described 
a ; fits : 
attention to the results of the examination ealled the ‘* Great Go,” with 
which a theological examination is connected at Oxford, including not 
merely the historical books of the Bible, but also,an accurate know. 
ledge of the thirty-nine articles and of the texts usually quoted in proof 
of their several propositions. Some criterion of the working of the 
pass, while 126 are rejected. ‘Thus 
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