the fen lands of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, England, Shis was at the 
end of an exceedingly wet summer when the islets throughout the "Broads" 
(as they are called) were in many cases greatly reduced in sise by reason 
of the excess of rain the ground still unsubmerged, being of course very 
much more fouled than usual* 
I also recall that when winter came and the herbage withered, 
great efforts were made to clear the margins of the streams, etc,, with 
fire, I suggested to our State Game Warden that he advise the local gun 
club at Lake Bowdoin to follow this course later on, as, should the 
genus of the disease linger to next year, they would of necessity be far 
more deadly in their effects in asmuchas the nesting birds would be in- 
fected® So far as the cold of our winters, considerable as it is, is 
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concerned, it would hare, I think, no effect on the baocilli, for I have 
known the germs of human cholera spring to life in Thibet and northern 
Hindoostan, with the return of warm weather though during the winter ap- 
parently innocuous « I have ventured to bring this matter to your notice, 
because so large a source of infection, appears to me, to be a menace 
to the wild fowl life in a huge territory. 
I beg to remain. 
Yours obediently. 
Berners B. Kelly. 
