32 Hallier, 
Perhaps you may succeed in finding out the places where 
this Coniothecium grows in nature. At all events, it is a para- 
sitical fungus, growing on plants, and to be looked for in the food 
of the wild bullocks. I began a new series of cultivations a few 
days ago, and if the results in any point are different from the 
first eultivations, I shall write to you another time about this 
matter. 
So weit mein Briet. 
Es folgt nun ein Bericht des Herrn Professor Chandler 
über seine chemischen Untersuchungen. Wir wollen auf diese 
hier nicht eingehen, weil sie zur Zeit eine Beziehung der chemi- 
schen Vorgänge zu der Einwirkung der Parasiten noch nicht er- 
kennen lassen. Dagegen dürfte der 8. Abschnittt von grossem 
Interesse für die Leser meiner Zeitschrift sein; wir theilen daher 
das Wichtigste aus demselben wörtlich mit. 
VIII. With what well described diseases is this Texas Cattle 
Discase allied ? 
Having alluded to the fact that the first groups of the disea- 
sed animals that arrived at the Metropolitan herdyards exhi- 
bited symptoms which led us to believe that the malady perhaps 
belonged to the brood of contagions known as anthrax fevers, 
some pains have been taken to inquire carefully into its chief 
points of resemblance and difference compared with those fevers, 
and with the Milzbrand and kindred disorders which prevail on 
the continent of Europe”). 
The very first dissections that were made clearly demonstra- 
ted that it was not the intestinal typhus**), for the small intesti- 
nes were in no cases marked by any of the lesions of typhoid 
enteritis which is prevalent in the lowlands of Holland, Belgium 
and Hungary. Considered in regard to all the phenomena and 
pathological changes noticed in the first two groups of diseased 
cattle, this disease seemed to require a description that had hi- 
therto not been given in any treatise on epizooties. From 
the Western newspapers the fact was learned that Prof. Gam- 
gee and others regarded it as similar to the „darn“ in Aber- 
*) Hier ist zunächst zn constatiren, dass der Parasit des Milzbrandes mit 
demjenigen der Texas-Rinderpest keine Aehnlichkeit besitzt. 
**) Auch der Parasit der Typhus ist himmelweit verschieden von demjeni- 
gen der Texas-Krankheit. 
