Report to the General Meeting. 
sample of it to a qualified chemist for analysis. This practice, 
however, must entail an additional cost, which to the small pur- 
chaser would be an appreciable addition to the price of his 
manures and feeding stuffs. The Council, therefore, referred it 
to the Chemical Committee to consider at what cheaper rate 
than at present analyses of manures, feeding stuffs, and other 
substances used in agriculture could be made by the Consulting 
Chemist for the bona fide and sole use of Members of the Society, 
if the Society provided the Chemist with a laboratory and staff 
entirely devoted to that purpose, and what additional cost such 
a plan would be to the Society. 
The Chemical Committee thereupon drew up a comprehensive 
plan, which has been adopted by the Council subject to its 
practicability being ascertained, whereby a laboratory and all 
its adjuncts will be provided for the Consulting Chemist in the 
Society's house, and the fees for analysis to be then charged to 
Members of the Society will be reduced to about one-half of 
their present amounts. 
The experiments with reference to pleuro-pneumonia have 
been continued at the Brown Institution ; and an exhaustive 
paper on the pathological anatomy of the disease, by Dr. Yeo, 
was published in the last number of the ' Journal.' 
The improved method of inoculation for pleuro-pneumonia, 
with reference to its preventive efficacy, is about to be tried on 
a larger scale than has hitherto been possible, and in districts 
in which disease actually prevails. With this view, the Council 
trust that owners of stock will co-operate with them by allowing 
their uninfected animals to be inoculated by the Society's 
officers, it being understood that compensation will be made by 
the Society for any losses arising directly from the inoculation. 
The Council have to report that four candidates competed 
for the Society's Medals and Prizes offered to Members of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for proficiency in the 
pathology, causes, symptoms, and treatment (preventive and 
curative) of cattle, sheep, and pigs. The successful candidates 
were : — 
Mr. M. Hedley, 14, Kiry Street, Stranraer, N. B,, 
Mr. T. Chambers, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, 
Mr. Robert E. Hoile, Lympne, Hythe, Kent. 
