Report to the General Meeting, Dec, 1852. 



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The Council have already reason to believe that the attention 

 which this Prize will call to the whole economy of manuring, 

 and to the agricultural as well as sanitary question of the 

 manurial resources of the kingdom, will lead to new and im- 

 portant results. 



The Council, after full deliberation upon the following amended 

 Conditions, proposed to them by their Veterinary Committee, 

 and which have been accepted by the College, decided last 

 month to renew the grant of 200/. for the current year to the 

 Royal Veterinary College : — 



1. That Members of the Society shall have the privilege of sending cattle^ 



sheep, and pigs to the Royal Veterinary College on the same terms- 

 as if they were Members of the College. 



2. That the College shall investigate particular classes of diseases or sub- 



jects as may from time to time be directed by the Council. 



3. That, in addition to the increased number of Lectures given by Professor 



Sinionds, the Lecturer on Cattle Pathology, to the Pupils in the 

 College, he shall also deliver Lectures in the Council Room before 

 the Members of the Society. 



4. That the College shall supply a detailed Report of the cases of cattle, 



sheep, and pigs treated in the Royal Veterinary College. 



The Council have had their attention called by His Royal 

 Highness Prince Albert to the process of inoculation so exten- 

 sively carried on at the present time in Prussia, Belgium, and 

 the Netherlands, with a view to modify the severity of the 

 symptoms of pleuro-pneumonia in cattle. In consequence of 

 the information furnished by His Royal Highness to the Council, 

 they authorised Professor Simonds, as the Veterinary Inspector 

 of the Society, to proceed to Belgium, in August last, for the 

 purpose of making himself personally acquainted with the facts 

 connected with the conditions and results of the employment of 

 this process. The Report which Professor Simonds has made 

 to the Council on this visit of inspection will appear in the next 

 part of the Society's Journal, along wdth a second Report on the 

 occurrence of pleuro-pneumonia in the extensive herd of dairy 

 cows belonging to Mr. Paget, of Ruddington Grange, near 

 Nottingham, and which that gentleman has with great liberality 



