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THE PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY. 
In the following respects it does not agree with rinderpest — 
1st. In its history, — essentially enzootic. 
2nd. In epizootics, its limited extension. 
3rd. Its disappearance, without stamping out. 
4th. It is neither so virulent nor so fatal. 
5th. It has been successfully treated. 
6th. In the absence of the characteristic symptoms of 
rinderpest, namely, excoriated gums and palate, with aphthous 
eruptions. The absence of extravasations of blood, 
ecchymoses, and haemorrhages beneath mucous and serous 
membranes, and the absence of the stomach lesions. On 
the contrary, the ulcerated intestines indicate a different 
disease. 
There can be no doubt of the many points of resemblance, 
but the importance of placing the disease as a distinct one of 
a class cannot be too forcibly impressed, as the measures we 
would adopt will, in the one case, be treatment, arrest, and 
care, and in the other, if we consider it is rinderpest, exter- 
mination by the stamping-out process is our only hope of 
success. This, for political reasons, could not be thought of 
in India. Hence the importance of duly considering the 
subject. 
As the malady has existed for months near Calcutta, 
there can be no doubt diseased hides salted for preservation 
are being largely shipped to England. Does the salt or the 
time required in transit prevent the importation of the 
disease ? 
Writing these notes has been some occupation to me 
during a few weeks' sick leave, but I hope my remarks, 
even if they seem premature from my having seen so little 
of the disease, may not be deemed entirely useless. 
THE PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY. 
By Professor James Buckman, F.G.S., F.L.S., &c. &c. 
(Continued from p. 905, vol. xlii.) 
It was our intention to have discussed the subject of fairy 
rings in this paper, but as some experiments are still pend- 
ing it will, perhaps, be as well to leave the matter until we 
arrive at the end of the Fungales. 
We now, therefore, give a few examples in completion of 
the list of edible fungi ; these in the present paper belonging 
to different natural orders distinct from those of the genus 
Agaric, namely : 
