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15. In accordance with the usual rotation of Districts, the 
Country Meeting of 1893 will be held in District G, which consists 
of the counties of Chester and Lancaster and of North Wales. 
16. The Council have appointed Mr. Lewis P. Rees, of 
Lammas Street, Carmarthen, a Provincial Veterinary Surgeon of 
the Society. The Examiners on the diseases of animals of the farm 
other than the horse, in the examinations for the diploma of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons held last year, have reported 
that the following gentlemen attained the greatest distinction : — 
Mr. J. E. Row, Veterinary Infirmary, Newgate Street, Chester. 
Mr. F. E. Place, 4 Parker's Place, Exmouth. 
The Society's Silver Medal has, therefore, been awarded to Mr. 
Row, and the Bronze Medal to Mr. Place. 
17. In the Department of Comparative Pathology at the Royal 
Veterinary College, which is assisted by a grant from the Society, 
important investigations relative to the diseases of farm stock have 
been carried on. Foot-rot among sheep has been for some time a 
subject of inquiry, and experiments have been made with a view of 
determining to what extent the disease is contagious. At present, 
a number of sheep are pastured on a clay subsoil, diseased and 
healthy animals being penned together ; while, as a control experi- 
ment, some sheep which have not been exposed to contact with 
foot-rot are penned on another part of the meadow. Experiments 
have also been conducted to test the communicability of tubercle 
to susceptible animals by feeding on meat from tuberculous cattle, 
such meat being, so far as could be ascertained, free from tubercle 
bacilli. These experiments have been attended with positive results 
in a large proportion of the animals which were fed. Directions 
have also been given for an inquiry into the causation of abortion 
in cattle. 
18. Pink-eye among horses has lately attracted a great deal of 
attention, and the question of including the disease under the 
provisions of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts has been much 
debated. At one time there was a strong feeling in favour of this 
action being taken. But the view seems to have undergone con- 
siderable modification when it was realised that any interference 
with the free movement and use of hor'ses over a lar^e extent of 
country would cause serious interruption to trade. Pink-eye is a form 
of influenza which is not fatal if the animals attacked are put under 
proper veterinary treatment as soon as signs of illness are apparent. 
The most serious losses have occurred here and in America in con- 
sequence of the practice of working horses while suffering from the 
disease. 
19. It was reported to the Members in December, 1889, that 
the Society's Consulting Chemist, Dr. J. Augustus Voelcker had 
been selected by the Secretary of State for India, on the recom'men- 
