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hoof with Gurlt ; and this opinion of the Professor of Berlin is 
perfectly correct. 
“ In order to have a just conception of the disposition of these 
tubes, we must consider as belonging to them : — 1. Origin, 
direction, and termination. 2. Form. 3. Longitude. 4. Dia- 
meter. 5. Arrangement." 
To accompany M. Bouley through the interesting detail into 
which he is now about to enter would lead us quite out of the 
pale of our legitimate boundaries. We trust we have exhibited 
already enough of his anatomical labours to shew that they 
have been wanting neither in amplitude nor accuracy; — that, in 
fact, they are all that can be desired to prepare the mind for 
the more enlivening study of the physiology of the foot; while 
the monotonous dryness which is but too apt to cling to ana- 
tomical accounts in general is in them much relieved by the 
illustrative plates connected with the work, of which we shall 
have something to say hereafter. 
[To be continued.] 
Home Department. 
THE EPIDEMIC IN STOCK. 
(From the Government Gazette.) 
To the Honourable the Colonial Secretary. 
Sydney, May 12, 1851. 
Sir, — W e, the undersigned members of the Commission ap- 
pointed by his Excellency the Governor to inquire into the 
prevailing epidemic amongst stock, beg to state, for the inform- 
ation of his Excellency, the result of our latest investigations 
on this subject. 
At the commencement of our inquiries, our first object was to 
ascertain the nature of the disease. After numerous examina- 
tions of cattle and sheep that had died of the malady, and of 
others that were slaughtered while labouring under it, we found 
it similar in nature to a disease long known in France under 
various names, of which the most common is the maladie du 
sang, which has not, to our knowledge, been hitherto noticed 
by English authors. 
