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committee, who had reported to a general meeting, — | 
This report had been adopted, and therefore there wasno — 
motion now before the meeting. If Mr. Conrad wished _ 3 
to have the matter reconsidered he must give notice ofa 
new motion. i 
Mr. Conrad promised to give the required notice. 
In the matter of Mr. Parnell’s motion that the Direc- _ 
tors be requested to increase the vote to the Book Com- 5. 
mittee, the Secretary informed the meeting that the — 
mover thought it would be better to let it be dealt with | 
by the Book Committee. The motion was therefore — 
cancelled. 
Mr. Binnie brought forward his motion that chal Pi 
Government be asked to take measures to prevent the : 
spread of infe€tious diseases among cattle by desta a 
the carcasses of those dying of such diseases. _ i 
Mr. Binnie said it was well known that anthrax and — 
the land, and even when these had been buried. The — 
only effe€tual destroyer of the bacillus was corrosive 
sublimate, and he thought the dead bodies should be — 
boiled down in a solution of this powerful antiseptic 
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and buried deep in the ground. 
Mr. Binnie read extraéts from the Journal of the — 
Royal Agricultural Society of England, and U.S. De- 
partment of Agriculture Reports, to show the difficulty — 
of destroying the infeétion of Anthrax. 
Mr, S. M, Bellairs said he would second the motion 
for the sake of discussion. The disease on the East — 
Coast attacked horses, mules, donkeys and cattle, but as . 
far as he knew not a single case had occurred among 
