BY C. .T. POUXD, F.R.M.S. XXXlll 



demand for pure pleuro virus from the Stock Institute is con- 

 siderably on the increase, and that the tuberculin test is gradually 

 being taken up by the breeders of stud cattle and some of our 

 dairy farmers, but, in order to make both systems perfect, we 

 necessarily require some legislative action. 



The study of bacteriology is so interesting and important, 

 and opens up such a wide field for speculation and research, that 

 I must be pardoned for having dealt with it in more detail than 

 perhaps the compass of this address would warrant ; but I trust 

 that I have proved to you the stockowners' indebtedness to the 

 microscope, and that all those marvellous and brilliant discoveries 

 relating to the origin, nature, prevention, and treatment of 

 bacterial diseases of our domesticated animals have been mainly 

 brought about by the investigations of such brilliant epoch-making 

 men as Pasteur, Koch, and Lister, whose names will ever be 

 associated with the microscope and remain as lasting monuments 

 to the science of Preventive IMedicine. 



A vote of thanks was accorded the retiring President for his 

 address, which it was decided should be printed in the Society's 

 Proceedings. 



The Election of Officers for the ensuing year 1898, then 

 took place with the following result : — Hon. Treasurer, Hon. A. 

 Norton, M.L.C. ; Hmi. Sccretanj, J. F. Bailey ; Members of 

 Council, F. M. Bailey, F.L.S,, W. J. Byram, R. EdAvards, C. J. 

 Pound, F.R.M.S., and J. Shirley, B.Sc, Hun. Auditor, A. -J. 

 Turner. 



(Owing to informalities occurring in the nominations for 

 President and Vice-President the election for these offices was 

 postponed for one month, when S. B. J. Skertchly and -T. W. 

 Sutton were elected respectively.) 



A vote of thanks was accorded to the retiring officers, and 

 the proceedings then terminated, 



