CHAPTER If. 
Some Account of the Appearance of the Disease in Different 
parts of the World, and the Means taken to arrest tts 
Progress. 
Tut British Government have issued a commission to 
proceed to Ireland, for the purpose of examining into the 
causes of the disease. The commission consists of Profes- 
sors Kane, Lindley and Playfair. Their first report, directed 
merely towards improper methods of storing the crop, has 
been published by the Irish government, and distributed by 
means of the constabulary, through the whole country. 
In Ireland the official inquiry is essentially aided by the 
important evidence collected by various diligent inquirers, 
especially by the Royal Ivish Agricultural Improvement 
Society, a most zealous and useful association, and the officers 
of the Royal Dublin Society. In England the Rev. M. J. 
Berkeley and Mr. Edward Jolley, are occupied with a mi- 
nute investigation of the subject for the Horticultural Society, 
in the mycological and chemical points of view ; and in Scot- 
land the Agricultural Chemistry Association have put forth 
a circular inviting the public to subscribe jive hundred pounds 
for the expense of an entomologico, botanico, chemico prac- 
tical examination of the matter. 
The following is the report above alluded to: 
