138 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



The printed evidence which follows the Report extends to 

 upwards of sixty folio pages, and is succeeded by the following 

 Appendices : — 



I. Major Craigie's Report of March, 1892, including those of the 



Inspectors to the Board of Agriculture. 

 II. Lord Glenbervie's Account of the Devastations of Field Mice in 

 the Forest of Dean and in the New Forest in 1813-14. 



III. Sir Walter Elliott's Account of the Plague of Field Mice on the 



Border Farms in 1876-77. 



IV. Foreign Correspondence, including an article by Dr. Geunadius, 



Director of the Department of Agriculture in Greece, on a 

 plague of Voles in Thessaly. 

 V. Statement of Rainfall in Kirkcudbrightshire, 1861 — 92, referred to 

 in the evidence of Mr. Robert Service. 

 VI. Reports by Professor Loeffler (1) on the results of laboratory experi- 

 ments made by him on Mice and Voles with the bacillus typhi 

 murium ; (2) on the plague of Voles in Thessaly and its supposed 

 counteraction by the bacillus typhi murium. 

 VII. Account of a Plague of Field Mice observed in La Plata by 

 Mr. W. H. Hudson. 

 VIII. Memorandum by the Chairman upon a visit to Thessaly in January, 

 1893, for the purpose of surveying the Vole-infested district and 

 taking evidence as to the outbreak and spread of the plague, and 

 the results of experiments made with a view to counteract it. 



In addition to these Appendices, there is a very full " Subject 

 Index" to the evidence, and the Report is illustrated by four 

 plates containing figures of (1) the Short-tailed Vole, and Long- 

 tailed Field Mouse ; (2) the Weasel and Stoat ; (3) the Kestrel 

 and Sparrowhawk; (4) the Short-eared Owl, and heads of old 

 and young Rooks. At the end is a folding map of the Scottish 

 counties affected by the plague, wherein every locality mentioned 

 in the evidence is underlined with red-ink for convenience of 

 reference. 



