20 ON BOVINE PLEURO PNEUMONIA ; 
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH, 1887. 
THE PRESIDENT, A. Norton, Esq., M.L.A., IN THE CHAIR 
NEW MEMBERS. 
Messrs. Alfred Bennett, Reid’s Creek, Mount Perry; F. C. 
Bolton, Brisbane ; D. Ogilby, Australian Museum, Sydney ; and 
V. G. Thorpe, M.R.C.S., Eng., etc., R.N., H.M.S. “ Paluma.” 
The following Paper was read :— 
NOTES ON BOVINE PLEURO PNEUMONIA 
IN QUEENSLAND ; 
BY 
EDWARD PALMER, M.L.A. 
In a colony like Queensland, where the industry of cattle rearing 
forms one of its main industries, any enquiries dealing with the 
present or future prospects of such an industry may well form a 
subject for a scientific Society like this to investigate, and it is not 
from any particular knowledge of mine on the subject that I bring 
this matter forward, as from a hope that it may cause discussion 
and call attention to the necessity for promoting a permanent and 
radical cure for what must be allowed to be a great national scourge. 
The discoveries continually being made from experiments and 
research with regard to the origin and growth of all disease, and 
the knowledge that eminent scientists like Pasteur, Koch, and others 
have shewn that the microbium of pleuro, as well as other diseases, 
can be cultivated outside the living animal, point to the possible 
and probable solution of the discovery of an antidote to this ever- 
present and terrible disease by means of vaccine matter kept in 
stock and continually and systematically used. 
The Stock Conference lately held in Sydney recommended that 
communication be opened with M. Pasteur to ascertain whether 
the virus of pleuro-pneumonia can be cultivated, as also the best 
method of preparing and preserving the virus for inoculation. 
It was a subject well worth recommending, and they would have 
