Beports of Committees. 
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House. 
Sir Nigel Kingscote reported his 
lection as chairman, and announced 
hat the engraved portraits of Her 
Jajesty the Queen and H.R.H. the 
'rince of Wales, which had been 
iresented to the Society by Her 
vlajesty and His Royal Highness, 
lad been suitably framed, and were 
low hanging on the walls of the 
7onncil-room. A number of accounts 
or house expenses had been passed 
und referred to the Finance Cora- 
nittee. 
Journal. 
Earl Cathcart reported that he 
tad been elected Chairman for the 
ivear. The arrangements to be made 
tor the new series of the Journal had 
been considered, and the editor had 
presented a preliminary draft of the 
contents of the first part of the new 
series. The Committee reported that 
the judges of farms had paid their 
first visit of inspection on January 21 
to February 1. 
On the motion of Earl Cathcart, 
it was resolved that the answer from 
the Council to the suggestion of 
Messrs. Robertson and Packard, that 
the Journal should be published 
monthly in future, should be, "'That 
the Counc il having, after full discus- 
sion, decided at their last meeting that 
the Journal should be published at 
quarterly intervals, are unable to re- 
open the matter." 
Chemical. 
Viscount Emlyx reported that he 
had been elected Chairman of the 
Chemical Committee and of the 
Wobnvn Sub-committee for the year. 
Various matters connected with the 
laboratory and Chemical Department 
had been discussed and settled. The 
feeding experiments at Woburn were 
progressing satisfactorily. 
Seeds and Plants. 
Mr, Whitehead stated that he 
had been elected Chairman for the 
year. With regard to the fatal 
disease attacking cows on a farm 
belonging to the Duchy of Lancaster 
Estate, the Committee reported that 
the Consulting Botanist had ascer- 
tained that the cows were principally 
attacked during the winter, when 
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they were in the yards, and that 
therefore it would be useless to 
examine the pastures at this season, 
but that he had examined the hay — 
samples having been sent to him — 
and had found that it was composed 
of good grasses, and was free from 
injurious plants. The Committee 
recommended that Mr. Carruthers 
should present a preliminary report 
upon the pastures offered for investi- 
gation in the present season, before 
the railing-in of the plots, which it 
was proposed should take place next 
year. 
Veterinary. 
Sir JOHN Thorold reported that 
he had been elected Chairman for the 
year. A letter had been received 
from the Central Chamber of Agri- 
culture, stating that the President of 
the Board of Agriculture had pro- 
mised to receive a deputation of 
Agricultural Associations on Wed- 
nesday, the 5th inst., at 4 P.M., for 
the purpose of urging upon the 
Government the necessity of early 
legislation providing for the compul- 
sory slaughter of animals affected with 
pleuro-pneumonia, and for the pay- 
ment of compensation for slaughter 
at the cost of the Imperial exchequer; 
and the Committee recommended that 
the Society be officially represented 
at this deputation by delegates ap- 
pointed by the Council. 
A lctt?. - had been received from 
the Royal Veterinary College assent- 
ing to the conditions of the Society's 
grant of 500Z. for the establishment 
at the College of a Chair of Com- 
parative Pathology and Bacteriology, 
and stating that in founding this 
most important chair due care would 
be taken that the Royal Agricultural 
Society should be identified with its 
establishment. 
Professor Brown had presented 
the following report : — 
Pleuropneumonia.— During the 
eight weeks ending January 25 
there were fifty-four fresh out- 
breaks of this disease reported in 
Great Britain, viz., thirty-live in 
England and nineteen in Scot- 
land. The outbreaks in England 
were in Cumberland, Hants, Kent, 
Lancaster, London, Middlesex, 
Norfolk. Notts, Surrey, and East 
