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undertaken,  at  the  request  of  the  Council,  to  draw  up  such  a 
system  as  they  would  recommend. 
The  investigation  into  the  life-history  of  the  Liver-fluke, 
made  at  the  request  of  the  Council,  has  been  completed  by 
Professor  A.  P.  Thomas,  and  a plain  statement  of  the  results 
which  he  has  obtained  has  been  published  in  the  recently-issued 
number  of  the  ‘ Journal.’  The  summary  of  the  preventive 
measures  which  he  recommended  was  also  published  several 
weeks  ago  in  the  Agricultural  newspapers. 
The  Council  have  viewed  with  much  concern  the  renewed 
spread  of  Foot-and-mouth  disease  throughout  the  country  ; and 
feeling  strongly  the  importance  of  the  question  to  all  stock- 
owners,  and  more  especially  to  breeders,  a deputation  from  them 
recently  waited  upon  the  Lord  President  of  the  Council  to 
urge  upon  the  Government  the  necessity  of  taking  such  further 
steps  as  will  prevent  this  disease  being  imported  from  foreign 
countries. 
The  Medals  and  Prizes  offered  by  the  Society  to  graduates 
of  the  Royal  College  of  Veterinary  Surgeons  for  proficiency  in 
“Cattle  Pathology”  have  been  awarded  as  follows: — 
Gold  Medal  and  201.,  Mr.  W.  H.  Edgar,  Dartford. 
Silver  Medal  and  10/.,  Mr.  A.  H.  Archer,  Dunstable. 
Bronze  Medal  and  5/.,  Mr.  J.  B.  Cresswell,  Louth. 
In  consequence  of  the  paucity  of  candidates  and  the  small 
interest  apparently  felt  by  the  veterinary  profession  in  these 
examinations,  the  Council  have,  though  with  much  regret, 
decided  to  discontinue  the  offer  of  these  medals  and  prizes ; but 
being  still  anxious  to  encourage  proficiency  in  the  pathology  of 
cattle,  sheep,  and  pigs,  they  have  decided  to  offer  the  Silver  and 
Bronze  Medals  of  the  Society  to  the  two  students  who  may  pass 
best  in  that  subject  at  the  Diploma  examinations  of  the  Royal 
College  of  Veterinary  Surgeons. 
The  Council  are  glad  to  state  that  the  large  increase  in  the 
number  of  samples  of  manures  and  feeding  stuffs,  which  were 
sent  for  analysis  to  the  Society’s  Laboratory  last  year,  has  up 
