xxxviii MonMy Council, December 11, 1912. 



Disease. Resolutions, he said, would presently be submitted to the Council, 

 and Members who might wish to make any remarks on these subjects would 

 have an opportunity of doing so. The Council would notice that the Com- 

 mittee recommended that the report of the Principal of the Royal Veterinary 

 College should be published in the next volume of the Journal. That was the 

 usual course. As, however, this report contained much valuable information 

 as to recent experiments with regard to the treatment of contagious abortion 

 of cattle, and particularly as to a method of testing animals for this disease, 

 which had been employed with very successful results in a number of herds, he 

 suggested that the report be circulated amongst Members of the Council forth- 

 with, as well as being included in the Journal, which would not be published 

 until March next. 



On the motion of Mr. Alfred Mansell, seconded by Mr. E. W. Stany- 

 FORTH, the following resolution was passed : — 



"That a copy of the Report for 1912 of the Principal of the Royal Veterinary 

 College in reference to Swine Fever be sent to the Board of Agriculture with a com- 

 munication stating that the Council are strongly of opinion that the drastic 

 measures that Sir John McFadyean recommends should be carried out in every 

 case." 



Sir AlLWYN Fellowes then moved. Mr. Dent Brocklehuest seconded, 

 and it was resolved : — 



"That a letter be sent to the Board of Agriculture, urging them to give effect to 

 the recommendations of their own Departmental Committee on Foot-and-Mouth 

 Disease with the least possible delay.'' 



In presenting the Stock Prizes Committee's Report, Mr. Retnard said that 

 the amount voted for prizes by the Finance Committee was 6,000Z., and this 

 had been all allocated. It was pleasing to note that the Society continued to 

 receive the generous support of the Breed Societies, and it was gratifying to 

 find that their contributions for the Bristol Show were in excess of those offered 

 at the late Doncaster Show. He thought it was a matter for congratulation 

 that they continued to receive this cordial co-operation, which was so much to 

 the benefit of both the Royal and the Breed Societies. Several private 

 individtials had again contributed most generously to the prize sheet, and, 

 although they preferred to remain anonymous, yet the Society's thanks were, 

 nevertheless, due to them. 



A suggestion made by the Hon. Cecil Parker and Mr. Stanyforth, 

 that the Annual General Meeting should in future be held at a more con- 

 venient hour, was referred for consideration to the Committee of Selection. 



The Duke of Devonshire (Chairman of the Special Committee) 

 presented the report of the Referees (Dr. William Somerville and Professor 

 Wood) appointed in connection with the Society's offer of its gold medal for 

 original research in agriculture. Five essays had been submitted to the 

 Referees, and they recommended that the gold medal be awarded to Mr. 

 William Gavin, B.A., for his paper on the " Interpretation of Milk Records." 



In accordance with the regulations governing the award of the medal, Mr. 

 Gavin was elected a Life Member of the Society. 



The Duke of Devonshire, in moving the adoption of this report, said he 

 hoped the Council would be of opinion that the experiment of presenting the 

 gold medal had been justified by the results. The report which they had 

 received from Dr. Somerville and Professor Wood gave the fullest possible 

 information on the subject, and he thought that the Council were fully justified 

 in carrying the experiment still further. He would like to express his con- 

 gratulations to Mr. Gavin on being the first winner of this medal, and he would 

 also like to take the opportunity of thanking Dr. Somerville and Professor 

 Wood for their trouble in going through the papers and making the award. 



The Secretary read the following resolution, which had been passed at 

 the General Meeting of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society : — 



"The members of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society wish to express to the 

 Council of the Royal .Agricultural Society of England their appreciation of the 



