vi Report to the General Meeting, Dec, 1852. 



placed at the disposal of the Society for any experiments the 

 Council may direct to be made on them.. Professor Simonds 

 has accordingly selected a certain number of animals for the 

 purpose of experiment at Ruddington, and a further number to 

 be brought up to the Royal Veterinary College in London for 

 experiment under his own immediate superintendence. The 

 Council have expressed to Mr. Paget their warmest thanks for 

 the invaluable opportunity he has thus afforded to the Society 

 of having direct investigations most satisfactorily made on the 

 nature and cure of this fatal malady. The Council have also 

 been favoured by Lord Stanley, H.M. Under-Secretary of State 

 for the Foreign Department, Sir Emerson Tennent, Secretary 

 to the Board of Trade, and Dr. Willems, of Hasselt, in Belgium, 

 with communications on this subject. 



The Country Meeting of the Society at Lewes in July last 

 was in every respect satisfactory, excepting in the number of 

 visitors, which, although amounting to 18,000 in the Show-yard, 

 and 500 at the Pavilion dinner, was only one-half of the usual 

 numiber. This comparatively deficient attendance, however, 

 was owing to peculiar circumstances, over which the Society had 

 no control ; namely, a remote locality, unusually oppressive heat, 

 and a general election going on throughout the country at the 

 very time of the Meeting. The Reports of the Senior Stewards 

 of Live Stock and Implements respectively at that Meeting will 

 appear in the Society's Journal. The thanks of the Society 

 were voted at the time to the Authorities of the Borough, to the 

 Raihvay Companies, and to Professor Simonds, who delivered 

 before the Members an interesting lecture on Parasitical Insects 

 producing internal and external disease in the live stock of the 

 farmer. 



The Council have decided that the Gloucester Meeting for 

 the South Wales district shall be held in that city in the week 

 commencing Monday, the 11th of July. They have decided on 

 the Prizes to be offered for Live Stock, and for the Prizes and 

 Conditions of Implements for that occasion ; deferring until after 



