Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Meteorology, Disease, Observation

    Discusses a report of James Glaisher's paper at the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting on 'the blue or cholera mist', arguing that Glaisher's claim that cholera was absent in the place where the mist was 'most dense' suggests that the connection between the mist and cholera is a chimera.