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plant — consisting; of portable building-s, turnstiles, exits, <Scc. — 

 which was annually hired ; and which it is calculated will last for 

 some years. The acquisition of these has necessarily thrown a 

 heavy charge on the funds of the Society this year. 



The Governors of the Royal Veterinary College, in their 

 Annual Report of the progress made at that Institution in the 

 application of the veterinary art, and the treatment of the diseases 

 of cattle, sheep, and pigs, state that the number of pupils qualified 

 to act as practitioners in carrjdng out these objects of the Society 

 continues to increase ; but they regret that the inembers of the 

 Society do not avail themselves moi'e extensively of their privilege 

 of sending diseased animals in a live or dead state to the College ; 

 thus furnishing means for the acquisition of a larger amount of 

 practical experience by the pupils. 



A special circular was prepared by the Veterinary Committee 

 and forwarded to every member of the Society, drawing atten- 

 tion to the distinctive symptoms of the Cattle Plague, in order to 

 assist the members in distinguishing between it and the Pleuro- 

 pneumonia and the mouth and foot disease. The circular also 

 set out the precautions which the Committee at that time recom- 

 mended to the attention of agriculturists. 



The Plymouth Meeting has been one of the largest in point of 

 receipts ever held by the Society, although a General Election 

 was going on throughout the country at the time. The Prince 

 and Princess of Wales were pleased to honour the Society by a 

 visit to the Showyard on Wednesday the 19th July, which 

 added considerably to its success. Their Royal Highnesses were 

 pleased to express to the President their satisfaction with the 

 whole of the arrangements made for their reception and enter- 

 tainment. The attractions of the Show were further increased 

 by the presence of the French Fleet, of an Austrian man-of-war, 

 and of the ships of the Channel Squadron, and the Society had 

 the satisfaction of receiving as visitors a large number of the 

 foreign officers and sailors. Although the receipts for admis- 

 sion of visitors to the Showyard amounted to G270/., the outlav 

 required for so extensive an assemblage of implements and cattle, 

 and for the elaborate and highly satisfactory trial of implements 

 on the occasion, has proved so great that the excess of expend- 

 ture over receipts on account of the Meeting amounts to about 

 750/. The General Meeting of the Members on leaving Ply- 



