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by which course, change of pasture and a sufficient amount of 
exercise will be insured. In reference to the management of the 
land, it was advised that the next top-dressing should consist of 
lime or salt, according to circumstances, instead of farmyard- 
manure. From the position of the pastures, it would be impos- 
sible to drain more effectually than is already done ; and it does 
not appear that under the present circumstances, the extreme 
measure of breaking up any of the grass land is called for. 
H. ill. Jenkins, Esq. G. T. Bkown. 
XXI. — Annual Report of the Governors of the Royal Veterinary 
College. 
The Governors of the Royal Veterinary College acting, as 
hitherto, in co-operation with the Council of the Royal Agricul- 
tural Society, in promoting that branch of veterinary science 
Avhich regards the diseases of farming stock, have the pleasure of 
forwarding to the Council of the Society their usual annual Report 
relative to the diseases prevalent amongst cattle during the past 
year, and their mode of treatment, as laid before the Governors 
by the Professors of that College. 
The Governors avail themselves of the occasion to mention that 
lectures, embracing all the leading features of cattle pathology, 
have been regularly delivered in the College on four days in each 
Aveek, and that they have been attended by the entire class of 
pupils, who have shown as earnest a desire to obtain proficiency 
in this as in any other division of their studies. Their progress 
has consequently been satisfactory, as shown by the circumstance 
that those who presented themselves for their final examination 
before the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, after having been 
in attendance for two full sessions, received as many good marks 
at the Cattle Pathological Section of the Court, as at any other. 
During the year, seventy-six " Freshmen" were enrolled at the 
College, and entered upon their studies — a number which exceeds 
that of the preceding year, and has rarely, if ever, been surpassed. 
Each "Freshman" was subjected to a Matriculation Examina- 
tion, which, in the early part of the year, according to custom, 
was conducted by the Professors, but later on by a Committee of 
the College of Preceptors, presided over by Dr. Jacob, Dean 
of that College. 
Within the year, that is, at the April and December examina^ 
tions, 88 students presented themselves before the Court of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. Of these, 56 obtained 
the diploma, and were admitted Members of the College. 
