"Oh, by-the-way, girls, don't forget to pay Tommy Mullein for bringing up the cow: he expects it to-night.

"Having been furnished with a good supply of fresh mullein from a garden near this city, where it is extensively grown, I commenced operations.

I will continue the research by careful weighings of early cases; and will further endeavor to ascertain whether the addition of mullein to the cultivating solution prevents the propagation of the phthisical bacillus.