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kid dinner, under the auspices of the Society, at the Agricul¬ 
tural Hall, during the forthcoming dairy show, in October, 
the viands to consist solely of the flesh of the kid served in 
different ways. Several letters were read from cottagers 
desirous of purchasing a goat by instalments, in response to 
an invitation issued by the society. 
WOOLSORTERS’ DISEASE. 
Our contemporary, the British Medical Journal , referring 
to the recent case of “ Woolsorters' Disease ” at Bradford, 
says that Mr. Spear has now sufficiently recovered from his 
recent attack to be able to resume his investigations at Brad¬ 
ford as to the causation of this disease. Dr. Greenfield's 
laboratory experiments have proved beyond a doubt that 
“ woolsorters’ disease" in the human, and “ splenic fever ” 
in cattle, are one and the same disorder. It may be added 
as a matter of interest that, while this investigation is going 
on in England, M, Pasteur has been continuing in France 
his experiments into the same disease, under the name of 
“ Charbon." Not deterred by a storm which he recently 
raised in the Academy of Medicine, with regard to the 
question of fowl-cholera, the eminent chemist, at the 
Academy's last meeting, read a further memoir on the sub¬ 
ject of anthrax, in which he recapitulated the experiments 
that have already been quoted in these columns. He wound 
up by saying that, if farmers chose, anthrax would soon be 
only a memory for their animals, their shepherds, for butchers 
and tanners, because the disease is never spontaneous, but 
exists where it has been imported, whence its germs are dis¬ 
seminated by the unconscious agency of earth-worms ; that, 
in short, if in a particular locality the conditions for its 
preservation did not exist, it would disappear there in the 
course of a few years. A correspondent in another column 
suggests an easy remedy, which does not involve the destruc¬ 
tion of the useful earth-worm. 
OBSERVATIONS ON THE LUNG PLAGUE OF CATTLE 
(PLEURO-PNEUMONIA CONTAGIOSA BOVINA).* 
By Professor James Law. 
As the writer has been engaged during 1879 in the direction 
of measures for the extirpation of this foreign plague from our 
* Extracted from the ‘First Annual Report of the Cornell University 
Experiment Station, 1879—80. 5 
