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ary fur making an exposure of cases 
if adulteration and falsetradc. In the 
eport brought up that day they had 
ieen very much hampered by the dc- 
•ire of members not to let, their names 
>r the names of the traders appear, 
ifterthey had satisfied themselves that 
w ithout any doubt there had been im- 
losture and fraud ; and it was really 
rendering the .Society much less use- 
ful than it might be. He made these 
observations in the hope that, by their 
becoming in some degree public, 
members of the Society might regard 
it. as a matter of duty to assist the 
Chemical Committee by permitting 
hem to make disclosures which were 
thought necessary in the interests of 
fair trade. Speaking for himself, he 
feared that in some instances money 
passed between the agents of members 
and the frauduleut traders, between 
whom there was an implied under- 
standing- that the matter was to be 
hushed up. The Chemical Committee 
must afford to the members of the 
Society all the privileges which the 
Society advertised, but by withhold- 
ing names members were making the 
action of the Society less efficient. 
That was his reason for calling atten- 
tion to the matter that day. 
Mr. Warren's motion was then 
■ agreed to. 
Seeds and Plant Diseases. 
Mr. Whitehead (Chairman) sta- 
ted that the Consulting Botanist had 
reported the progress of his inquiry 
into the composition of ancient pas- 
tures, and the Committee had sanc- 
tioned his proposed visits for the in- 
vestigation of those which he might 
consider desirable for the purpose. 
Miss Ormerod had presented a report 
(embodied in the report on page 407) 
which the Committee recommended 
for publication. 
He(Mr. Whitehead) remarked upon 
the importance of Miss Ormerod's 
report as showing the continued at- 
tacks of the caterpillar pest on fruit 
trees, and the use of Paris green and 
other arsenical poisons to destroy 
them. No doubt these arsenites, if 
used properly and carefully, would 
prove an eilicacious remedy. 
Veterinary. 
Mr. Dent (in the unavoidable 
absence of the Chairman, Sir John 
Thorold) presented the following 
report from Professor Brown : — 
Pleueo - Pneumonia. — During 
the four weeks ended May 24 then; 
were forty-one fresh outbreaks of 
this disease reported in Great 
Britain : thirty- six of them in 
England, in the counties of Chester, 
Cumberland, Essex, Kent, Lan- 
caster, Leicester, London, North- 
ampton, Surrey, and York (W.R.). 
The five outbreaks in Scotland 
occurred in Edinburgh, Fife, Forfar, 
and Renfrew. The total number of 
animals attacked was 176, and 804 
healthy cattle in contact with the 
disease were slaughtered. In Ire- 
hind eleven fresh outbreaks were 
reported in the four weeks, forty- 
one cattle were attacked, and 240 
exposed to the risk of infection were 
slaughtered. 
Anthrax. — In the four weeks 
twenty-one outbreaks of anthrax 
were reported, nineteen in England 
and two in Scotland. These out- 
breaks in England occurred at the 
following places and on the follow- 
ing dates : — Lichfield, April 27 ; 
Northampton, May 1 and 7 ; Basing- 
stoke, May 3 ; Cosford, Suffolk, 
May 7 ; North Walsham, Norfolk, 
May 3 ; Hensall, near Selby, Maj r 
11 j Liskeard, Cornwall, and Ken- 
dal, Westmoreland, May 16 ; Skel- 
ton, Cumberland, East Retford, 
Notts, and Stourbridge, Worcester- 
shire, May 17 ; Bishop Auckland, 
Durham, Bacup, Lancashire, and 
Rothbury, Northumberland, May 
19 ; Bentham, Kirkby Lonsdale, 
May 21 ; Litton Cheney, Dor- 
chester, May 23. The two out- 
breaks in Scotland occurred in 
Aberdeenshire, May 17, and Wig- 
town, May 18. 
The number of animals attacked 
was 113, of which one was killed, 
fifty-two died, and forty-seven re- 
covered. In Ireland there were 
two outbreaks of anthrax, and two 
animals attacked. 
Swine Fever. — There were 426 
outbreaks of this disease reported 
in the month. This is an increase 
as compared with the preceding 
four weeks, but a decrease as com- 
pared with the corresponding 
period of last year. The number 
of pigs attacked was 2,453 ; 961 
