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lecture given by him last year before the Society, he is prepared 

 to furnish the agricultural community with further information 

 through the pages of the Society's Journal. 



The Governors have also observed with satisfaction that the 

 Lecture which the Professor recently delivered before the Society 

 on the smallpox in sheep was duly appreciated ; and they trust 

 that his exertions may assist in the prevention of this fatal 

 malady, and thus render an important service both to agricul- 

 turists and the public generally. The report of the Vaccination 

 of Sheep, alluded to last year by the Governors, has been sent in 

 to the Government. In making this remark, the Governors 

 would observe, that they have been informed that neither of the 

 Commissioners, Mr. Marson, resident surgeon of the Smallpox 

 Hospital, nor Professor Simonds, antlci])ated other than a nega- 

 tive result from their experiments, and that this opinion was 

 communicated to the Government prior to the commencement 

 of the investigation. For fuller information of the proceedings 

 of the Commission, the Governors Avould direct the attention of 

 the Council to the Report which has very recently been published 

 by the Government. 



During the past year a more satisfactory supply of morbid 

 specimens, illustrative of various diseases, has been received 

 from veterinary surgeons, and also from agriculturists ; but so 

 strong is the sense of the Governors of the necessity for illus- 

 tration, that they have placed 50/. in the hands of the Principal 

 for the purpose of procuring additional specimens for the in- 

 structi(m of the students in cattle pathology. 



The number of patients which has been admitted into the 

 College Infirmary during the year has somewhat exceeded the 

 average. Among the cases of interest may be enumerated the 

 following. A young Hereford bull, affected with umbilical 

 rupture, complicated with a fungoid growth from the navel, 

 the result of injury to the cord at the time of birth. The animal 

 was operated upon with success, and after his recovery was re- 

 turned to his owner with every indication of his becoming useful 

 for stock purposes. 



Two sheep, subject to the disease known in Sussex by the 

 vulgar term of " goggles," a name probably given from a 

 peculiar expression of the eye of the animal, especially in an 

 advanced state of the disease, have also been received. The 

 affection proved fatal in both instances after the animals had 

 been about a month in the infirmary ; and although a most 

 searching post-mortem examination was instituted in both cases, 

 the precise nature of this singular disease remains to be ascer- 

 tained. The term " goggles " has been used as synonymous with 

 vertigo^ the malady in which an hydatid exists in the brain of 



