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products as with the varied anatomy of their flowers, they all 
make out an affinity which is well marked spite of these 
variations. 
Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
The information received from France with regard to the 
cattle plague is still very meagre ; so much so in reality that 
no correct estimate can be formed of the extent of the 
disease, or the success of the means employed for its exter- 
mination. 
No fresh cases of the disease have occurred during the past 
month in Bavaria; but in Lower Austria the malady has 
broken out, since our last report, in six villages, in two 
divisions of the empire. Cattle plague is also prevalent in 
Galicia and Transylvania ; but Poland is reported as having 
been free from it since the middle of June. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
Our report of the extent and progress of this disease 
differs hut little from that of last month. The centres of the 
infection have increased ; but the fresh outbreaks and number 
of counties in which the malady prevails are fewer. The 
disease is also less rife in the metropolis. 
One very serious outbreak has taken place in Somerset on 
the farm of Mr. Stephen Butler at Farnborough, which has 
led to the Local Authority enforcing the powers conferred on 
it by Order of Council of February lBth, 1871, to the effect 
“ That the carcases of all cattle which have died, or have 
been slaughtered, in consequence of pleuro-pneumonia, shall 
he buried, under the supervision of the inspector, to a depth 
of at least six feet, the hides slashed, and covered with quick- 
lime, and that such carcases shall not be afterwards removed 
from the place of burial. 
“ That no hay, straw, litter, or other thing commonly used 
