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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVII. 
Second Series. 
Statistics : — ""ao^ 
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 xvni 
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. 'I'homas, Demonstrator of 
Anatomy, University Museum, Oxford 1 
II. — Eeport on an Experimental Investigation on Anthrax and allied 
Diseases, made at the Brown Institution. By W. S. Giocn- 
field, M.D., F.E.C.P., Professor-Superintendent of the Brown 
Institution 30 
III. — Eeport of a Series of Outbreaks of Splenic Apoplexv on the 
Farm of Mr. J. E. Doggett, Holkham, Norfolk. " By. J . 
Wortley Axe, Professor of Pathology at the Eoyal Vetermary 
College 44 
IV, — Eemarks on the recent Conference at Vienna on Agricultural 
and Forest Meteorology. By E. H. Scott, M.A , F.K.S., 
Secretary of the Meteorological Office 56 
v.— Eeport on the Competition for Seed-Wheat, 1880. By Wm. 
Carruthers, F.E.S., Consulting Botanist to the Society .. .. 75 
VI. — Practical Experience in the Manufacture and Use of Malt for 
Feeding Purposes. By Frederick Beard, of Horton, near 
Canterbury ; with a Note by James Howard, M.P., Claphnni 
Park, Bedford 86 
VII. — Ecmedy for Foot-and-Mouth Disease. By Sir E. C. Kcrrison, 
Bart., Oakley Park, Scole, Norfolk 89 
VIII. — Field ExiJeriments on Swedish Turnips with Soluble and finely 
ground Phosphatic Fertilisers. By Dr. Augustus Voelcker, 
F.K.S., Consulting Chemist to the Eoyal Agricultural Society 92 
IX. — Exijeriments at Burcott Lodge Farm, Leighton Buzzard, on the 
Growth of Swedes, by dissolved finely ground coprolites, 
dung, and ground and dissolved coprolites in various pro- 
portions with dung. By E. Vallentine 104 
X. — Experiments on the Use of Phosphates in growing Swedes at 
Tubney Warren in 1869. By J. W. Kimber, M'.E.A.C. .. 107 
