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paid during the year to the Herbarium, for scientific inquiry and 

 research, was 1008. The following foreign botanists may be 

 specified as having used the Herbarium in connection with their 

 investigations — M. C. DeCandolle, of Geneva ; M. Cogniaux, of 

 Brussels ; Dr. Berggren and Mr. Nathorst, of Stockholm ; Dr. 

 Hildebrandt, the African Explorer; and Baron Ettingshausen, of 

 Gratz. Of British botanists the following may be specified: 

 Mr. W. P. Hiern, Mr. C. B. Clarke, Mr. J. G. Baker, Mr. A. W. 

 Bennett, Mr. J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, Mr. A. G. More, Mr. C. P. 

 Hobkirk, Mr. B. D. Jackson, Dr. Braithwaite, Mr. S. le M. Moore, 

 Mr. R. V. Tellam, Mr. E. M. Holmes, Rev. W. W. Newbould, the 

 Messrs. Groves, the Rev. J. M. Crombie, Mr. Howse, Mr. Boulger, 

 and Mr. Joshua. 



Ueber eiwn neuen pathogenen Bacilltis. Mit 1 Taf. (Virchow's 



Archiv. f. pathol. Anat. u Physiol, u. f. Klin. Med. Bd. Ixxvii. 

 Heft. 1, p. 29 ff.) By C. J. E berth. 



This Bacillus was found in a badger, belonging to a zoological 

 garden, which died after a few days' illness, showing no other 

 symptoms than decrease of appetite and weakness. An examination 

 was made half-an-hour after death, and the cause of death was 

 attributed to a mycosis which, though general, was chiefly 

 developed in the liver, to which also the parenchyme affections 

 were confined. This was regarded as caused by the parasite. 

 After the liver had been hardened in small pieces in alcohol, 

 numerous rod bacteria were seen in sections (cleared with acetic 

 acid) of the periphery of the small abscesses among pus-corpuscles. 

 These were more clearly visible in hamiatoxyline preparations 

 or in sections which had been coloured with methyl violet. 

 Sections of the blood capillaries were completely filled with 

 them in series parallel or slightly inclined to the axis of the 

 capillary. In many places the walls of the vessels appeared to be 

 destroyed. The Bacilli formed cylindrical rods of . mostly one, 

 seldom two, branches, which were only a little longer than the 

 diameter of the red blood corpuscles and the contents of which 

 were a homogeneous dull-shining substance. On treatment with 

 a diluted solution of iodine or of Bismarck brown there appeared 

 in many of them dirty-brown granules which after farther at 

 of iodine assumed a light brown colour, shading into violet, 

 granule had about the same diameter as the transverse sections of 

 the rods. Whether these granules were spores or not the author 

 does not venture to say. This Bacillus is distinguished from that 

 of the splenic fever by greater breadth and length. From a great 

 number of measurements it was found that the average length of 

 the Bacilli of B. anthracis (splenic fever) was five micromillimetres, 

 while those found in the badger averaged six. The rods o the 

 former terminate abruptly, while those of the latter are rounded off. 

 Further, the Bacilli of the badger appear to actively excite 

 inflammation, which cannot be affirmed of B. anthracu. 



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