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confidence to their employers, thougli thoroughly competent as 
lar as treatment of horses is concerned, and generally possessing 
a higher standard of scientific education than their predecessors. 
Neither has the second object been satisfactorily attained. 
Members of the Society do not apply to the Veterinary Inspector 
in cases of disease so much as they might do, and complain that 
it is not easy in these cases to obtain the professional advice 
which they require. 
Further than this, the Society does not receive from the 
College, or its Professors, the current information on diseases, or 
the suggestions for their cure and prevention which the Council 
think ought to be at their service. 
They have therefore decided that the conditions on which the 
grant should be made, shall be as follows : — 
That the grant to the College shall be specially devoted to the 
advancement of veterinary science as applied to the diseases of 
cattle, sheep, and pigs. 
That it is desirable that the Governors of the Veterinary 
College should appoint an efficient assistant to the Professor of 
Cattle Pathology, in order that he may more satisfactorily attend 
to the applications of Members of the Society ; and by lectures 
and practical treatment of cattle diseases at the College give 
more thorough instruction to the students on these subjects ; and 
further, that the Professor should present to the Council quarterly 
reports on matters connected with diseases of cattle, sheep, and 
pigs, and on any question of veterinary science which may be 
of interest to agriculturalists. 
A deputation of the Governors of the Royal Veterinary 
College has therefore been invited to meet the Veterinary 
Committee of the Council, to discuss the measures which have 
been considered necessary to be adopted, in order to render the 
cattle Department of the Royal Veterinary College really- 
efficient. 
The Council have noted with great satisfaction that the 
JVIembers of the Society avail themselves of their chemical, 
privileges in increasing numbers ; and they have been much 
gratified at the general testimony as to the value of Dr. Voelcker's 
Quarterly Reports on inferior and adulterated manures and 
feeding stuffs. Were other evidence wanting, the fact that the 
Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland have deter 
