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in store at Key West and other like positions, would reverse 
much of the existing practice, and would enable us to preserve 
for a long time the stores which are now so speedily ruined b 
moisture. The adoption of closed inner chambers, artificially 
dried, with an exterior ventilation, under the roof and within 
the outer walls, to keep down the temperature, would add enor- 
of flour and other perishable stores, would certainly justify a 
most careful experimental research under the strict guidance of 
Scientific indications, 
sata that such is the fact, and can only interpret what I 
ve myself seen as indicating that an odor is then thrown out 
on the air which the keen scent of the scavenger bird detects 
| mafar. The material particles, whose diffusion is thus testified 
_ to, seem likely to afford the means of trans rting the disease 
_ On the air, in a manner quite agreeing with the facts of its p 
gation. The hint, thus afforded by the keen-scented etal 
_ May have value in assisting to comprehend the mode of convey- 
_ ing and diffusing this fatal malady, and the particles scented 
may indeed be the actual fomites so much talked of and so little 
Understood, in discussing the controverted questions of contagion 
and communication. = 
_ _ 9. A Water Moonrise.—When becalmed in a beautiful evening 
: between the Reef and the Key, the water being very tranquil, I 
bined luminous figure. As this seeming contraction p ; 
