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Ordinary Meeting, December 24th, 1872, 



J. P. Joule, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., &c., President, in the 



Chair. 



The President drew attention to the increasing number 

 of cases of hydrophobia. There was every reason for 

 believing that this dreadful disorder was communicated 

 from one animal to another by a bite, and seldom if ever 

 was spontaneously developed. Inasmuch therefore as the 

 effects of a bite nearly always occured within four months, 

 it would only be necessary to isolate all dogs for that period 

 in order to stamp out the disease. That was the opinion of 

 Dr. Bardsley, whose elaborate paper will be found in the 

 4th volume of the Memoirs of the Society, and probably 

 gave rise to the practice of confining dogs at certain periods 

 of the year, which has unfortunately been rendered to a 

 great extent nugatory in consequence of having been only 

 partially adopted. 



Ordinary Meeting, January 7th, 1873, 



J. P. Joule, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., Szc, President, in the 



Chair. 



Mr. Julius Allmann was elected an Ordinary Member of 

 the Society. 



The President referred to the great loss which the 

 Society had experienced by the death of one of its most 

 Feoceedings'— Lit. &Phil. Society.— Yol. XII.— No. 5.— Session 1872-3. 



