IGi Report to the General Meeting, 
27. The Council have appointed as Provincial Veterinary Sur- 
geons of the Society, Mr. J. Dawson Roberts, of Aberystwith, for 
the County of Cardigan • and Mr. F. Booth, of Abergele, for the 
counties of Denbigh and Carnarvon. 
28. Investigations have been carried on by the Society during 
the past vear into the lung-worm disease of young cattle and sheep, 
and some important facts in the life-history of the parasite have 
been ascertained. It seems now to be placed beyond doubt that 
the embryos of the lung-worm find a temporary resting-place in the 
common earthworm ; in the digestive system of sheep they undergo 
developmental changes which fit them for residence in the warm- 
blooded animal. Inquiries have also been conducted with the view 
to ascertain which of the many micro-organisms found in the dis- 
eased organs of swine dead of swine-fever is capable of inducing the 
disease. Up to the present, more than a dozen different microbes 
have been tested, but none of them caused any kind of illness 
when introduced into the digestive system of healthy pigs. 
29. Investigations have been made, at the request of Members 
of the Society, into outbreaks of disease in various parts of the 
country. The diseases which have been met with are : — Abortion 
in cows, tapeworms and hydatids in sheep, actinomycosis in cattle, 
contagious skin disease of sheep, tuberculosis in cattle, sheep, swine, 
and poultry ; a fatal form of blood disease in poultry, somewhat re- 
sembling chicken cholera ; a malignant form of mouth disease in 
calves ; and a fatal disease, the true character of which has not yet 
been determined, in herds of deer in parts of the country widely 
separated from each other. All these investigations (the expenses 
attending which have been defrayed out of grants of money made 
by the Society for the purpose) will be described at length in the 
Annual Report of the Royal Veterinary College for 1889, to appear in 
the Journal [see page 184]. 
30 The Council, conscious of the necessity of the work of scien- 
tific investigation into the diseases of animals being carried on con- 
tinuous! v, have resolved, instead of giving their customary Jjrant to 
the Roval Veterinary College for general purposes in connection with 
cattle pathology, to make an annual grant of 5001. for establishing 
a Chair of Comparative Pathology and Bacteriology at the Royal 
Veterinary College, subject to the College undertaking, as before, to 
investigate any outbreaks of disease amongst animals that may be 
reported by Members of the Society, and to defray the expenses of 
gUch investigations' when considered necessary or advisable, and to 
the existing veterinary privileges of Members being continued as at 
present. 9 
31. The Second Series of the Journal, commenced in 1865, having 
been completed by the volume just issued, the Council have given 
anxious consideration to the subject of the lines to be laid down for 
the Third Series. It has been their endeavour to come to such » 
