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the more interesting objects in their different divisions, having 
particular reference to some points of interest in a physio¬ 
logical or medicinal point of view. 
{To he continued^ 
Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
The past month has been one of more than ordinary 
anxiety with reference to the progress of the cattle plague on 
the Continent, as the risk of its reintroduction here has been 
thereby greatly increased. For some months the disease is 
known to have prevailed in Poland, and in our last issue we 
called attention to the circumstance that it had broken out 
in some Polish villages through which the railway runs from 
the North German States into Russia. Since then intelli¬ 
gence has reached us that the disease had crossed the Prussian 
frontier, and made its appearance in the province of East 
Prussia. The first reports showed that the cattle in the 
Prussian villages of Fiirstenwalde and Liebenberg, near to 
Ortelsberg, on the Polish frontier, were attacked, but it was 
hoped that the severe measures of extinction which the 
Government had adopted would soon rid Prussia of the 
plague. The contrary, however, proved to be the case, as 
the disease manifested itself in other parts of East Prussia, 
several miles to the north-west of Ortelsberg. From East 
Prussia the plague spread into the province of West Prussia, 
having been conveyed by some cattle bought at the fair of 
Mlihlhausen. According to the latest reports, the plague 
had broken out at Reisenberg, on the Vistula; Landsberg, 
on the Warthe; Frankfurt, on the Oder; and Neumark and 
Kustrin, in the Governmental Department of Brandenberg, 
and at several other places. Besides the diseased many 
hundred cattle which had been exposed to the infection had 
been killed. Each focus of the disease is surrounded by 
a military cordo7i, and all cattle tratfic prevented, except by 
prescribed routes, and with certificates from the heads of the 
police. The authorities in the Department of Potsden have 
also adopted similar precautions as to traffic, and all con¬ 
veyance of cattle by railway through Berlin is suspended. 
Some cattle bought in East Prussia of the feeders, and 
destined for the London market, are believed to be the last 
