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THE NATURALIST. 



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A French Cure for the Cattle Plague. — 

 The Echo du Nord states tliat a farmer lias 

 suggested a cure for the cattle disease to 

 the veterinary college of that department. 

 He proposes to inoculate healthy animals 

 exposed to contagion with the saliva of a 

 diseased beast. The operation is described 

 as simple as vaccinating a child. It is 

 done by making an incision of about half 

 an inch deep in the inside of the hind 

 quarter of the beast so as to form a sort of 

 pocket, in which the saliva of the diseased 

 animal is to be deposited. The animal 

 thus treated ill be attacked with the dis- 

 ease in a mild form, and, according to the 

 farmer, will be for ever safe from any fur- 

 ther attack. 



Wild Animals in India. — We have 

 before us a list of animals killed in these 

 provinces during the first half of this year, 

 with the amount paid for rewards. Total 

 number of animals killed : Tigers, 359 ; 

 leopards, 516 ; bears, 293 ; wolves, 99 ; 

 hyoenas. 286 ; making in all 1,553, for 

 which 23,561rs. 8a. have been expended. 

 The number of animals killed is larger than 

 the number killed during the preceding 

 half-year, the rainy season of 1864, but it 

 is somewhat less than the result attained in 

 the corresponding half year of 1864. Mr. 

 Campbell hopes this result may be due to 

 an actual decrease in the number of wild 

 animals. — Central India Times, October 

 28. 



"Will you^ or any of the readers of the 

 Naturalist, kindly tell me what is the jtrr- 

 sentnanie oi Conferva Echinulata, E.B. 1378 

 and what is known about it ? In the Eng- 

 lish Flora it is called Echinella articulata. 

 I had the pleasure of seeing Saponn.ria 

 naccaria and Asperula arvensis, gro\^ ing 

 together in some quantity this last summer 



they were in a field of tares near the well- 

 known Darenth Wood, Kent. — Walter 

 H, Reeves, 20, South-street, Greenwich, 

 December 8th, 1865. 



Geometrce of the Norfolk Fens. — 

 Mr. Gunn, on the authority of Mr. 

 Winter, includes the following insects in 

 his list of Norfolk Geometrse, (see p. 218, 

 of Naturalist for December. ) : — P. lapidata, 

 P. trepidaria, G. munitata, L. salicata. 

 Of lapidata, I believe the very few that 

 have ever been taken have all come from 

 Rannock, in Perthshire. Trepidaria is 

 essentially a Scotch insect, and one affecting 

 the highest altitudes — the larva probably 

 lichenivorous — as the summits uf the moun- 

 tains and other localities where the insect 

 is found, produce no other vegetation. 

 Munitata and Salicata are both common 

 to the mountainous districts of Great Bri- 

 tain — and their occurrence in the south, 

 appears most improbable. Salicata especi- 

 ally belongs to the rocks — and I never saw 

 Munitata low down. Is Ericetata, another 

 of Mr. Gunn's insects, to be found in Nor- 

 folk. That again is an insect of the hills, 

 but it possibly may be found on the heaths 

 of the lov/lands. Ranworth or Horning 

 Fen might be hunted long enough without 

 success for any of these five. — W. 0. 

 Hammond, St. Alban's Court, December 

 6th, 1865. 



Lepidoptera. — I have fine specimens of 

 P. machaon, L. muscerda, L. stramineola, 

 N. senex, A. leporina, L. pudorina, L. 

 straminea, L. extrema, L. phragmitidis, 

 N.fulva, N. despecta, S. mucronellus, 

 ohtusellus, n. crihralis, and many other 

 fen insects for exchange, also a great many 

 mounted slides of named aphides and 

 other objects for the microscope, which I 

 should like to exchange for mosses or algse 

 to those in want of them. Address : 

 DisciPLUS, School House, Mulbarton, 

 Norwich. . 



