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and Westmoreland ; and the Council have already received a 
pressing invitation for that year from the Mayor and Corporation 
of Carlisle. 
During the past year the Legislature have amended the law 
relating to the Contagious Diseases of Animals of the Farm, 
giving additional protection against the importation of such 
diseases with Foreign Animals, and securing greater uniformity 
of action amongst Local Authorities in the event of outbreaks 
within the United Kingdom. The Council have continually 
urged the necessity of adopting measures based on these prin- 
ciples, and they trust that the recent Act, and the Orders of the 
Privy Council based upon it, will not only prevent to a great 
extent those losses which English farmers have hitherto suffered 
from the outbreaks of contagious diseases amongst their flocks 
and herds, but also enable them to increase their stock profit- 
ably, on account of the diminished risk which breeding on an 
extended scale will henceforth entail. 
The experiments upon Pleuro-pneumonia have been continued 
during the greater part of the year at the Brown Institution, 
under the superintendence of Dr. Burdon-Sanderson, whose 
complete Report will appear in the next number of the * Journal.' 
Very valuable indications have been obtained, but unfortunately 
one of the provisions of the new Contagious Diseases (Animals) 
Act prevents the further continuance of these investigations. 
With the sanction of the Council, Dr. Burdon-Sanderson has 
commenced a series of researches into such diseases as Splenic 
Apoplexy and Quarter-evil, the nature and causes of which are 
at present more or less obscure. 
The experiments at Woburn are being continued on the plan 
originally laid down, and Dr. Voelcker's Report on the results 
obtained during the past year will appear in the next number of 
the ' Journal.' Further experiments on feeding stuffs haye also 
been commenced, and the utilization of a portion of Crawley 
F'arm for experimental purposes is in contemplation. 
As reported at the last Annual Meeting, the Council have 
decided to furnish the Consulting Chemist with a laboratory 
and all its adjuncts, so as to reduce the fees for analysis to be 
charged to the Members of the Society to about one-half their 
present amounts. The structure of the laboratory is now 
finished, and the Council expect that the fittings will shortly 
