worst thing that can be done is to leave
it in the ship, which is then likely to become a pest-house. Prompt
removal reduces the danger to a minimum. By this intelligent course New
York was able to keep open her communication with Savannah in the
height of the epidemic, and she was the only city on the Atlantic to do
so. More cotton than ever came to her harbor. The hygienic results are
noticeable. Although more than a thousand deaths occurred in Savannah,
not one case of yellow fever reached the _city_ of New York by water.
Two or three cases of sickness from vessels occurred in that city and
Brooklyn; but though these were said to be yellow fever, their
subsequent history did not sustain the supposition. They were probably
a form of malarial fever which so nearly resembles the more dreaded
disease that time is required to distinguish between them. Two cases of
real yellow fever reached the city by rail, but all others were stopped
at quarantine, which contained patients from January to the latter part
of October, excepting one month--May. In all, sixty were treated there,
most of whom were supposed to have yellow fever; but of these only
thirty-nine really had that disease, the remainder having the peculiar
form of malarial fever before spoken of. These results sustain the
intelligent action of the quarantine officers who have stripped off the
terrors which once hung about the name quarantine, and still do in so
many parts of the world and of our own country.

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THE "GRASSHOPPER COMMISSION."

The last Congress made an appropriation of $18,000 for an Entomological
Commission, and for once the Government has made a perfectly
satisfactory series of appointments. Prof. C. V. Riley, the
distinguished and experienced State entomologist of Missouri, is the
chief of the commission, while Prof. Cyrus Thomas, State Entomologist of
Illinois, one of the most noted American authorities, and Dr. A. S.
Packard, author of several works on insect and other morphology, are its
other members. They will have their headquarters at Dr. Hayden's office,
in Washington, and also a Western office in St. Louis. In the division
of work Prof. Riley takes the country east of the Rocky mountains and
south of the forty-eighth parallel, Prof. Thomas has Minnesota,
Nebraska, South Dakota, and East Wyoming, and Dr. Packard the remainder
of the country west of these two areas. The object of the commis