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in which the morbid process does not specially affect the spleen, 
an example of this is seen in the sheep inoculated with antlirax. 
I am not yet in a position to say whether these two diseases 
are identical, viz., anthrax and Cape fever, or whether the 
bacilli are the same in both ; my own belief is that they are 
not identical, but are two members of one group. 
With regard to Loodiana fever, which appears to be very 
closely allied to, if not identical with, the Cape horse-sickness. 
I can say but little. There appears to be usually more swelling 
of the throat, with infiltration of the intermuscular planes, than 
in the common form of Cape fever. 
XVII. — Annual Report of the Consulting Chemist for 1879. 
By Dk. Augustus Voelckek, F.R.S. 
Since the opening of the Society's Laboratory, at 12 Hanover 
Square, last March, 843 samples were received for analysis up 
to the 1st of December, 1879 ; and between the 1st of December, 
1878, and March 1879, 175 analyses were made by me for 
members of the Royal Agricultural Society in my laboratory 
at 11, Salisbury Square, making a total of 1018 analyses for that 
year between the 1st of December, 1878, and 1st of December, 
1879. This number exceeds that of the analyses made for 
members of the Society in the preceding year by 294, and in 
that terminating 1st December, 1877, by 376. The tabulated 
summary appended to this Report shows that the largest number 
of analyses were made of samples of dissolved bones, superphos- 
phate and compound artificial manures, the majority of which 
were found of good quality. Next to artificial manures in the 
list stand linseed- and other feeding-cakes, 257 cakes having 
passed through my hands, besides 36 samples of feeding-meals. 
Nearly twice as many samples of bone-dust as in the pre- 
ceding year were sent for analysis. Some of these were 
adulterated samples, and others samples sold under a wrong 
denomination. 
Leaving unnoticed cases of gross adulteration, the particulars 
of which will be found in the Quarterly Reports of the Chemical 
Committee, I beg leave to offer a few remarks on the analytical 
work in the Society's laboratory during the last twelve months. 
Composition of Guano. 
None of the 84 samples of guano analysed by me during the 
past season were purposely adulterated, and the majority were 
