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CONTENTS OF PAET I., VOLUME XYII. 
Second Series. 
Statistics : — 'age 
Meteorology for the year 1880 i-x 
Imports of Corn, &c., British Wheat sold, and Average Prices x-xiv 
Number of Beasts exhibited, and the Prices realised for them 
at the Christmas Markets, since 1843 xv 
Acreage under each description of Crop, Fallow, and Grass ; 
and Number of Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs in Great Britain 
and Ireland, 1878, 1879, and 1880 xvi, xvii 
Importations and Average Prices of certain Foreign and 
Colonial Productions xviii 
Statistics of Dairy Produce, and Prices Current xix-xxiv 
ARTICLE 
I. — Report of Experiments on the Development of the Liver-Fluke 
(Fasciola hepatica). By A. P. Thomas, Demonstrator of 
Anatomy, University Museum, Oxford 1 
II. — Report on an Experimental Investigation on Anthrax and allied 
Diseases, made at the Brown Institution. By W. S. Green- 
field, M.D., F.R.C.P., Professor-Superintendent of the Brown 
Institution 30 
III. — Report of a Series of Outbreaks of Splenic Apoplexy on the 
Farm of Mr. J. R. Doggett, Holkham, Norfolk. By. J. 
Wortley Axe, Professor of Pathology at the Royal Veterinary 
College 44 
IV. — Remarks on the recent Conference at Vienna on Agricultural 
and Forest Meteorology. By R. H. Scott, M.A., F.R.S., 
Secretary of the Meteorological Office 56 
v.— Report on the Competition for Seed- Wheat, 1880. By Wm. 
Carruthers, F.R.S., Consulting Botanist to the Society .. • ' .. 75 
VI. — Practical Experience in the Manufacture and Use of Malt for 
Feeding Purposes. By Frederick Beard, of Hortou, near 
Canterbury ; with a Note by James Howard, M.P., Clapham 
Park, Bedford 86 
VII. — Remedy for Foot-and-Mouth Disease. By Sir E. C. Kerrison, 
Bart., Oakley Park, Scole, Norfolk 89 
VIII. — Field Experiments on Swedish Turnips with Soluble and finely 
ground Phosphatic Fertilisers. By Dr. Augustus Voelcker, 
F.R.S., Consulting Chemist to the Royal Agricultural Society 92 
IX. — Experiments at Burcott Lodge Farm, Leighton Buzzard, on the 
Growth of Swedes, by dissolved, finely ground coprolites, 
dung, and grovmd and dissolved coprolites in various pro- 
portions with dung. By R. Vallentine 104 
X. — Experiments on the Use of Phosphates in growing Swedes at 
Tubney Warren in 1869. By J. W. Kimber, M.R.A.C. .. 107 
