THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



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ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 



A MoxTHLY Council was held on Wednesday, Feb. 

 1, Lord Walsingham, President, in the chair. Present : 



Lord Berners, LordFeversham, Lord Leigh, the Hon. 

 Col. Nelson Hood, the Hon. Augustus Vernon, Sir J. 

 V. Shelley, Bart., M.P., Mr. T. Dyke Acland, Mr. T. 

 Raymond Barker, Mr. Hodgson Barrow, M.P., Mr.* 

 Bramston, M.P., Mr. Brandreth, Mr. Caldwell, Col. 

 Challoner, Mr. Exall, Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, Mr. 

 Fisher Hobbs, Mr. Wren Hoskyns, Mr. Hudson (of 

 Castleacre), Mr. Jonas, Mr. Lawes, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. 

 Milward, Mr. Shuttleworth, Mr. Torr, Mr. Jona- 

 Webb, Mr. Burch W^eslern, Mr. Wilson (of Stowlangs 

 toft). Professor Simonds, and Professor Voelcker. 



The folio wiug new members were elected : — 

 Awbrey, F. D., St. Lawrence Woolton, Basingstoke. 

 Beaumont, F. H., Buckland Court, Reigate. 

 Bryan, John, Southleigh, Witney. 

 Burch, W., Campsey Ash, Woodbridge. 

 Curtis, Capt. Constable, Pailton House, Lutterworth. 

 Davie3, R. B., Ridgeway, Narbeth. 

 Drew, H., Peamore. Exeter. 

 Gadesden, A. W., Leigh House, Tooting. 

 Gascoyne, W., Bapchild Court, Sittingbourne. 

 Gray, Rev. J. D., Abbdsley,St. Neots. 

 Hipwell, G. M., Cheam. 



Lennard, Sir T. B., Bart., Ballins House, Aveley, Romford. 

 Murton, William, Tunstall, Sittingbourne. 

 Plumbe, Johu, Ashton Kejmes, Cricklade. 

 Pollock, G. D., 27, Grosvenor-street, W. 

 Reid, Sir J.Rae, Bart., The Grove, Ewell. 

 De Roihschilde, Sir. A. Bart., Aston, Clinton Tring. 

 Surman, John Surman, Swindon Hall, Cheltenham, 

 Tinkler, R., Penrith. 



Welby, J. E., Allington Hall, Granthara. 

 Winstanley, J. B., Braunaton House, Leiceatershire. 



The names of sixteen candidates for election were then 

 read. 



Finances. — The Hon. Colonel Nelson Hood pre- 

 sented the report of the Finance Committee, from which 

 it appeared that the current cash balance in the hands 

 of the bankers on Jan. 3L I860, was £3,634 15s. The 

 Chairman further reported that the authorities at Can- 

 terbury had transmitted to the Society, towards the ex- 

 penses of the ensuing country meeting, to be held at 

 that city in the week commencing Monday, July 9 next, 

 a subscription of ^1,500, which was included in that 

 general balance. 



Canterbury Meeting. — Lord Leigh, Vice-Chair- 

 man of the General Canterbury Committee, reported 

 their recommendation of the plan of the Show-yard 

 submitted to them by tfce Hon. Director of the Show 

 and the Society's Contractor of Works. His Lordship 

 also submitted a list of Prizes which had been offered 

 by the Local Committee at Canterbury, and which was 

 accepted with thanks and ordered to be appended to the 

 Prize Sheets of the Society. 



Standing Committees. — The Standing Commit- 

 tees for the year were appointed. 



On the motion of Mr. Torr, seconded by Sir John 

 Shelley, the consideration of the best manner of con- 

 veying the thanks of the Council to Mr. Brandreth 

 Gibbs for his services as Honorary Secretary of the 

 Society during a period of seven months, was referred 

 to a Committee, who should report to the next Monthly 

 Council. 

 • The Annual Report of the Royal Veterinary College 



was received, and directed to be read at the next 

 Weekly Council. 



The Council then adjourned to its Weekly Meeting 

 on the 8th inst. 



A Weekly Council was held on the 8th instant, 

 Lord Wal.singhara, President, in the chair. Present : 

 Sir J. V. Shelley, Bart., M.P.; Sir J. V. B.John- 

 stone, Bart, M.P. ; Mr. Dyke Acland, Mr. C. Barnett, 

 Mr. George von Bunsen, Mr. Henry Corbet, Mr. B. T. 

 Brandreth Gibbs, the Rev. L. Vernon Harcourt, Mr. 

 Thos. Scott, Professoi- Simonds, Mr. Thompson, M.P., 

 Mr. B. Western. 



The names of candidates for election were read. 



Annual Veterinary Report. — The annual 

 Report from the Governors of the Royal Veterinary 

 College was then read, of which the following are the 

 principal points — 



The Governors, after stating the gratification felt at the 

 harmony which had so long existed between the two Insti- 

 tutions, express a wish to learn of the Council whether by 

 a moditication of its rules relating to the professional visits 

 of the veterinary inspector an arrangement could not be 

 effected whereby more numerous applications for his services 

 woidd come from the members of the Societ3^ The Gover- 

 nors couceive that inquiries on the spot should be made into 

 sudden or extensive outbreaks of disease of an unusual cha- 

 racter among animals ; but that an equally searching inves- 

 tigation should take place into the causes of the more com- 

 mon forms of disease with which cattle, sheep, and pigs are 

 affected ; as these, it unchecked or wrongly dealt with, will 

 not unfrequently produce untoward results of almost equal 

 importance. They would wish to urge on the members of 

 the Society, not only the necessity of a continuance of the 

 practice of referring numerous specimens of disease, accom- 

 panied by a history of the cases in which they occurred, to 

 the College, but even its still greater extension. The Lec- 

 tures have been regularly attended by the entire class of 

 pupils, which exceeds in number the average of former 

 years ; and it is gratifying to the Governors to be enabled 

 to state that the examinations show the proficiency of pupils 

 in the subjects of the extended curriculum which was origi- 

 nally required by the Council. The epizootic maladies, 

 known familiarly as the "lung disease," and the "mouth 

 and foot affection," have been as rife during the first as in 

 almost any preceding year, and consequently have produced 

 great losses among agricultural stock. The nature of the 

 changes which take place in the lungs, by the former of 

 these maladies, is such, that under all varieties of treatment 

 and management it must ever remain a most dtstructive 

 disease ; and in consequence, also, of its contagious nature, 

 it is difficult to see how, without special legislative enact- 

 ments, its effects or extension can be controlled. Besides 

 these diseases, several others have been prevalent during 

 the year, especially among sheep, some of which were found 

 to depend on the existence of entozoa within the true diges- 

 tive stomach of the animal, and others on the presence of 

 similar worms within the windpipe and air-tubes of the 

 lungs. Numeroui? letters, seeking advice under these cir- 

 cumstances, have been received ; and the directions for the 

 treatment and general management of the animals given in 

 reply have, almost without an exception, been acknowledged 

 to have produced the desired effect. 



Lord Walsingham inquired of Professor Simonds 

 as to the entozoa existing in the stomachs of lambs. 



Professor Simonds stated in reply to several ques- 

 tions from members that the entozoa met with in the 

 true digestive organs of lambs were the cause of the 



