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Hessian fly was numerous in that 
neighbourhood, and I therefore 
wrote to a few other observers 
(whom I knew to be also well 
acquainted with the attack) to 
inquire whether the infestation had 
been noticed at various localities 
at a considerable distance from 
each other. 
Mr. J. Eardley Mason, writing 
in reply from Alford, on the 
eastern side of Lincolnshire, men- 
tioned that he had found Hessian 
fly both as larva? and puparia — 
that is to say, both in the maggot 
and what is commonly known as 
the " flax seed" state — in every field 
that he had examined, but sparingly. 
Mr. G. E. Palmer, of Revells' 
Hall, Hertford (the first observer 
of this attack in England), wrote 
me that on receiving my letter he 
made a careful examination of the 
wheat and bailey crops, with the 
following result : — 
Barley. — Damage from the Hes- 
sian fly slight, a few stalks here 
and there being broken down, and 
containing the puparia. 
Wheat. — No perceptible damage, 
although there is occasionally a 
stalk attacked and broken down. 
There appeared on the whole to 
be very little injury caused by 
Hessian fly in the observer's neigh- 
bourhood, whether to wheat or 
barley, but as the heavy rains had 
laid the straw it would not be 
possible, until this has passed 
through the threshing machine, to 
tell the amount of infestation that 
may be present. 
Mr. S. L. Mosley, Beaumont 
Museum, Huddersfield, informed 
me that he had looked for the 
attack in the neighbouring part 
of Yorkshire this season, but had 
not found it, nor had any of his 
entomological or other correspond- 
ents mentioned to him the pre- 
sence of Hessian fly in other parts 
of the country. 
I have not myself had communi- 
cation from Grantham as to the 
attack which was reported in that 
neighbourhood, but as Mr. White- 
head (Chairman of Seeds and Plant 
Diseases Committee) has himself 
seen specimens of puparia, of 
which he forwarded me a sample, 
the infestation is obviously to be 
found there; but at present there 
is not any report of general preva- 
lence of the attack. 
Eleaxob A. Okmeeod. 
July 28th, 1890. 
Veterinary. 
Sir John Thoeold (Chairman) 
stated that Professor Brown had pre- 
sented the following report : — 
Pleuro-Pneumonia.— This dis- 
ease has recently increased in Great 
Britain, more particularly in Eng- 
land. In the seven weeks from 1st 
June to 19th July, 124 fresh out- 
breaks of pleuro-pneumonia were 
reported, ninety-six in England and 
twenty-eight in Scotland. The re- 
cent outbreaks have occurred in the 
counties of Chester, Cumberland, 
Essex, Kent, Lancaster, Leicester, 
Middlesex, Northumberland, Surrey, 
York (West Riding), Aberdeen, 
Edinburgh, Fife, Lanark, and Ren- 
frew. 
The total number of cattle found 
affected with the disease was 422, 
of which 314 were in England, and 
108 in Scotland ; in addition to 
these, 1,777 healthy cattle which 
had been exposed to the risk of 
infection were slaughtered; 1,316 
of these were in England, and 461 
in Scotland. 
In Ireland there were thirteen 
fresh outbreaks reported in the 
seven weeks, thirty-two cattle were 
found affected, and 486 healthy 
cattle in contact with the diseased 
animals were slaughtered. 
Antiieax. — Between 1st June 
and 19th July twelve outbreaks of 
anthrax were reported in Great 
Britain, eleven of them in England, 
and one in Scotland. "These out- 
breaks occurred in the following 
counties, and on the following 
dates : — Bucks, Beaconsfield dis- 
trict, June 13th; Cumberland, near 
Carlisle, July 13th; Dorset, Cerne 
Abbas district, June 4th and 25th, 
and July 3rd; Kent, near Bromley, 
June 17th; Lincoln (Lindsey), June 
5th and 22nd; Notts, near Newark, 
June 9th; Stafford, Shenstone, June 
13th; Suffolk, Cosford, June 26th. 
The outbreak in Scotland occurred 
near Nairn, on June 3rd. In these 
outbreaks fifty-four animals were 
