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bad a disease of the same nature in the United States. With 
the two diseases before us we decided to call the one swine- 
plague which appeared to be identical with the Schweineseuche 
of Germany. Since Schweineseuche can only be translated as 
swine plague this course appeared to be necessary to avoid 
confusion; and if this example had been followed by others 
who wrote afterwards, the confusion which is now found in 
the nomenclature would not exist. 
The impression which Billings and Peters attempt to give 
is that the investigations of Frosch sustain the claims of Bil¬ 
lings and refute the conclusions of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry. This impression is absolutely false as can be easily 
proved. It is true that Frosch was led by reading Billings’ 
misleading, and, in many respects, incorrect reports, to express 
opinions uncomplimentary to the Bureau and discreditable to 
himself on subjects of which he knew no more than any other 
i eader of the reports ; but so far as his scientific investigations 
go, and that is all the evidence offered by him which is worth 
anything, he sustains the reports of the Bureau in every im¬ 
portant respect. 
After what has been read in your presence and published 
by our journals, I suppose the most of you are surprised that 
I can make such a statement. If I make it I am prepared to 
prove it, and I feel sure that no man can contest the evidence 
which I offer. 
What was the first position taken by Billings in regard to 
the germ which was described by the Bureau in 1885 ? We 
Avill take his report published in 1888 as authority, as he then 
had given two years to the investigation, and he certainly 
cannot therefore accusers of using his prematurely expressed 
opinions in making this argument. After two years of study 
and investigation, with the advantage of having our reports 
for 1885 and 1886 in his possession, he deliberately states that 
no such germ as our hog cholera germ was found by him, 
that such a germ has no existence, and that our germ was a 
fabrication or, to use his own words, “a forgery.” 
Referring to the Bureau experiments of 1885 he says: 
“ Furthermore, their value is absolutely nullified for the sim- 
