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Mayo. -- I believe a cold clayey soil develops consumption, from its exhalation of moisture, causing damp dwellings; with miasma from the soil, etc.

Manson. -- I have observed, in two or three instances, where no hereditary taint existed, several children carried off by consumption; and where the homestead was situated on an elevated and dry situation.

Bullard. -- A young man, aged twenty-six, with slight, if any, hereditary taint, living in a low, wet place, almost over a mill-pond, was taken with incipient phthisis. He was removed to a dry locality, and is now under treatment, and nearly free from any trace of phthisis.

Haskell. -- Exposure, and sea-fog.

King. -- I know a family living in a wet situation which I think has helped develop the disease. Without the hereditary predisposition I know of no case occurring in wet localities, or caused by any particular work, or overwork.

Rice. -- Low, damp, foggy situations engender and develop the disease. A person with, consumption will die much sooner in such a situation than in a high, dry, airy location.

Wakefield.-- A. house exposed to damp east winds would promote, or at least aggravate and hasten its development.

Hammond. -- Wet locations especially liable to cause it.

Hunt. -- Damp, low and shady residences promote it.

Harris. -- Inquiries that I bad begun upon general sanitary questions in every town in the State of New York in 1859, as a Committee of the State Medical Society, prepared me to believe your opinions (viz., that soil-moisture is a prominent cause of consumption in New England, and probably elsewhere) were well founded, when you first mentioned them to me in 1862.