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None of these last had received any previous treatment. 
The very virulent virus, which was in use the 31st of May, 
was regenerated by germs eorpuscules of the carbuncular parasite 
preserved in my laboratory since the 21st of March, 1877. 
So as to render the experiment more comparative, one vac¬ 
cinated was inoculated alternately with an unvaccinated ani¬ 
mal. The operation ended, an engagement to meet was made, by 
all persons present, upon the 2d of June, only forty-eight hours 
after the beginning of the general virulent inoculation. 
At the time of meeting, the 2d of June, the results were won 
derful, the twenty-four sheep, the goat and six cows which had 
been inoculated had all the appearances of perfect health ; on the 
contrary, twenty-one sheep and the goat which had not been vac¬ 
cinated, were dead with anthrax; two other sheep, unvaccinated, 
died before us, and the last late in the day. 
The unvaccinated cows were not dead. We have already 
shown that cows are not so likely to die from anthrax as sheep, 
but all had voluminous oedema around the point of inoculation, 
behind the ear. Some of these swellings reached, in the follow 
ing days, such a size that they contained several liters of liquids, 
their temperature raised three degrees. The vaccinated cows had 
no elevation of temperature, no enlargement, no diminution of 
appetite. This renders the success of the experiment as complete 
for the cows as it was for the sheep. 
On the 3d of June, a vaccinated ewe died. In the opinion of 
the veterinarians who made the post mortem, the death was due to 
the death of the foetus she carried. 
National Cattle Commission. —A Washington despatch 
states that under authority conferred by the Sundry Civil Appro¬ 
priation bill, the Secretary of the Treasury has appointed James 
Law of Ithaca, N. Y., James H. Sanders of Chicago, and E. F. 
Thayer of West Newdon, Mass., a commission, to be known as 
“The Treasury Cattle Commission.” The Commission has been 
instructed to meet at Washington as soon as convenient for the 
purpose of adopting such regulations as may be deemed proper, 
