4 tlM^HRl. 
and again when six months had elapsed. In every case 
the results were negative, showing either that the rums 
from which the sediments had been obtained were free 
from the spores of the organism or else that the organ- 
isms and any of its spores which might have been present 
in the original rums were dead. 
We also obtained a series of further samples of "faulty" 
rums from Messrs. BoOKER BROS, and repeated the 
microscopic observations and the cultural experiments 
with precisely similar results. Later, through the kind- 
ness of the same firm, we were supplied with three samples 
of faulty rums, fresh from Liverpool, one of which was of a 
rum, samples from which Mr. Veley had examined and had 
reported that the ** faultiness" was due to the presence of 
the microbe in it. The sediment obtained when this was 
mixed with water, was examined microscopically, and 
among others, an organism apparently similar to the one 
described by Mr. Veley was found in it. Microscopical 
examinations failed to prove whether or not the microbe 
was living, A series of experiments was made using these 
rums for the purpose of seeding good rums in similar ways 
to those already described as followed with the sediments 
from ** faulty" rum, adding the "faulty" rum in the 
proportion of ten per cent of the good ones. The seeded 
samples were examined weekly during six weeks and in 
every case with negative results. Three different kinds of 
good rums were experimented with, all giving similar re- 
sults. 
These experiments showed that we had not been able 
in Demerara to produce " faultiness" in good rums by 
seeding them with the sediments from diluted " faulty" 
rums or with considerable proportions of a6tually 
