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8. Mr Patrick Webster of Westfield, Forfar. 



9. Principal Williams, New Veterinary College, Edinburgh. 



10. Principal Walley, Royal (Dick) Veterinary College, 



Edinburgh. 



14^/6 June 1887. 



11. Principal M'Call, Veterinary College, Glasgow. 



12. Mr Robert Reid, M.R.C.V.S., Inspector under the Cattle 



Diseases Act, and Superintendent of Slaughter Houses, 

 Leith. 



27th July 1887. 



13. Mr R. 0. F. Stewart, Montrose. 



14. Mr Andrew Spreull, M.R.C.V.S., Dundee. 



Edinburgh, May 18, 1887. 



Present : — 



Mr Robert Paterson, Chairman. 

 The Hon. R. Baillie Hamilton. 

 Dr Andrew P. Aitken, Chemist. 

 Mr F. N. Menzies, Secretary. 



Mr Thomas Elliot, Blackhaugh, Galashiels, called in, 



and examined. 



I have had about fifty years' experience of pleuro-pneumonia. 

 I never knew it in home-bred cattle unless they had been in con- 

 tact with Irish cattle. It was from Irish cattle that I got the 

 disease. My experience is that the disease is contracted during 

 transit. We used to winter and graze large numbers of cattle 

 at that time, generally about 600. They were wholly Irish for 

 many years. We had the disease very regularly during many 

 years — seldom wanting it ; not one year at a time. I believe 

 it is created very much in the course of transit from the holds 

 of the vessels in which cattle have been in not being properly 

 cleaned, when cattle have been brought across. I have come 

 at times in the boats with cattle. I think inquiry should be 

 made into the causes and remedies of pleuro-pneumonia by 

 medical men, and possibly, if inquiry were made into the transit 

 of cattle between Ireland and Great Britain, there would bo a 



