10 Is the Eucalyptus a Fever-destroying Tree ? 



stronger and more carefully fitted than that for an ordinary 

 well. 



A No. 6 Douglas pump costs £5 5 s., and when a man 

 gets handy at putting them down, fifteen shillings or a 

 pound. will cover the expense of driving them. Certainly 

 no one ought to be without a good supply of water in his 

 paddocks in summer when he can bring it up from a 

 depth of 30 feet for, say, £6 10s. Most of the waterholes 

 one sees are so filthy and impure in summer that it is 

 enough to poison the milk, and to bring disease on and 

 poison the blood of the animals who drink it. If animals 

 have foul water we must expect fluke and pleuro. My cattle 

 will not go even to waterholes supplied from springs when 

 they can get the pure water in the troughs ; and they drink 

 vastly more of the pure water than they would of the 

 impure. 



Art. VI. — On Cremation. By S. W. Gibbons, F.C.S. 



[Read 13th July, 1874.] 



Art. VII. — Is the Eucalyptus a Fever-destroring Tree ? 

 By J. Bosisto, Esq. 



[Read lOtli August, 1874.] 



In many places on the continent of Europe and elsewhere, 

 experiments have been made to acclimatise our eucalypti, 

 more especially the "globulus" or blue-gum species. 



The rapidity of its growth, its pretty ovate, and after- 

 wards lanceolate leaf, its early maturity, together with its 

 power to absorb considerable moisture, and to permeate the 

 air with its peculiar odour, led to the belief that this tree, 

 attractive in itself, exerts a beneficial influence upon 

 malarious districts. But this species, if considered apart 

 from its congeners, does not supply sufficient information so 

 as to arrive at anything like a satisfactory answer. 



In the consideration of the question, is the eucalyptus a 

 fever-destroying tree ? or, in other words, does it tend to 

 lessen malaria or to destroy miasmatic poison ? we propose 

 to regard the whole of the eucalypt vegetation. 



If we journey from Melbourne or from other centres of 



