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it can have no possible connection with the germ which Dr. Smith 
has described. If you will read my report you will remember I 
do not claim that that germ was the cause of Texas fever and did 
not at the time I described it. I carried on my work at that time 
as some of Dr. Paquin’s work has been done. 1 was obliged 
to work at long distances; I did not have as good a laboratory 
as I have now; I was obliged to gather my material in the 
field and seal it up in tubes and carry it some hundreds of 
miles to my laboratory and there work it out. Our work in 
Washington has been very different. We have had stations 
close to the laboratory. We have had every facility for com- 
munication between station and laboratory. We have had all the 
material which we could possibly work, so that I think, as far as * 
the observations of our Bureau go, they have been carried on un¬ 
der conditions which make the results fully trustworthy and as 
reliable as it is possible for such investigations to be. 
How one word more in regard to the germs. I do not con¬ 
sider it possible that the bacteria, the germs which have been de¬ 
scribed by Dr. Billings and Dr. Paquin and by myself in early 
investigations—they certainly were bacteria—I do not consider it 
possible that those germs can be confused with the micro-organism 
wdiich Dr. Smith is working on at present. They are found in 
different locations. The bacteria are cultivated and they do not 
resemble one another in the least. So, so far as 1 am concerned, 
I am ready to say those investigations are entirely different and 
the germs differ from the germs which Dr. Smith treats of, radi¬ 
cally. So I see no reason for any confusion. So we must con¬ 
clude that the germs discovered by the Bureau of Animal Indus¬ 
try are entirely different from these germs we have been working 
with. 
Now, there is one remark which Dr. Paquin has made which 
I would like to say a word about. In inoculating from material of 
dead animals he gets certain results, and in certain cases produces 
death. Now, the question is, Have you produced the disease which 
you supposed was contemplated, or have you produced a different 
disease by the peculiar germs which you have inoculated ? This 
is a point which some of us may not have realized. I know in 
