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MontJdy Council, Ap'il 8, 18-91. 
suitable for treatment in the Journal, 
and also send short contributions on 
farming practice for the " Notes " 
section of the Journal. 
Chemical. 
Viscount Emlyn (Chairman) re- 
ported that Dr. Voelcker had laid 
before the Committee, in anticipation 
of the next quarterly report, two 
cases of gross fraud— one in which 
oat-husks had been offered at 4Z. a 
ton, and the other in which a so-called 
" improving meal," sold at il. 10s. a 
ton, was found to consist merely of 
sulphate of lime (gypsum). Various 
questions arising out of correspond- 
ence in the Chemical Department 
had been discussed, and directions 
given thereon. The Committee 
thought it right to call the attention 
of the Council to a letter addressed to 
Dr. Voelcker by the Secretary of 
State for India, in which Lord Cross 
expressed his satisfaction that the 
Government of India had cordially 
acknowledged the character and 
value of Dr. Voelcker's work during 
his deputation to India, and enclosed 
the following extract from their 
letter on the subject : — 
We desire, in conclusion, to 
express our satisfaction with the 
manner in which Dr. Voelcker has 
accompli.shed his difTicult mission. 
The intelligence, zeal, energy and 
patience with which he has con- 
ducted his inquiries and investiga- 
tions have fully justified your 
Lordship's selection of him for the 
task which he has so well per- 
formed, and we are satisfied that 
his suggestions and recommen- 
dations will prove of considerable 
service to our local governments 
and administrations, as well as to 
ourselves. 
Lord Emlyn added that the Com- 
mittee were sure that the Council 
wouldsharewith them thesatisfaction 
■which they felt that Dr. Voelcker's 
services had received such deserved 
recognition. 
Lord Emlyn also presented the 
report of the Woburn Sub-Committee, 
which announced the conclusion of 
the sheep-feeding experiments and 
the approaching termination of the 
bullock-feeding expeiiments. 
Seeds and Plant Diseasea. 
Mr. Whitehead (Chainnan) re« 
ported that the diagrams of the wheat 
plant, after Bauer, and the diagrams 
of pasture grasses, were in process of 
execution. The Secretary had been 
instructed to communicate with the 
Warwick Local Committee, asking 
them, in dealing with the question of 
farm prizes in connection with the 
Warwick Meeting of 1892, to consider 
the advisability of offering prizes for 
fruit farms. A reference had been 
considered from the Woburn Sub- 
Committee as to the failure of alsike, 
red clover, cow gi ass, Poa pratensis, 
and Poa trivialis in the clover and 
grass experiments at Woburn. The 
Committee recommended that the 
plots should be re-sown with these 
clovers and grasses. 
Veterinary. 
Sir John Thoeold (Chairman) re- 
ported that courses of lectures on 
horse-shoeing by Professor Pritchard 
had been aiTanged, under the auspices 
of the Worshipful Company of Farriers, 
to be held this month at the People's 
Palace, Kegent Street Polytechnic, 
and the Royal Veterinary College. The 
Committee recommended that the re- 
signation of Mr. G. Lewis, M.R.C.V.S., 
of his office of Provincial Veterinary 
Surgeon for the county of Monmouth, 
be accepted with regret. The}' pro- 
posed that out of the sum unexpended 
of their grant for 1891, be given 
towards the expenses of the Inter- 
national Congress of Hygiene, which 
had a section specially devoted to the 
relations of the diseases of animals to 
those of man. 
Professor Brown had presented the 
following report : — 
Pleuro - Pneumonia. During 
the five weeks ended March 28 seven- 
teen fresh outbreaks of this disea.<<e 
have occurred in Great Britain: 
eleven of them in England, in the 
counties of Bucks, Chester, Lancas- 
ter, London, Salop, Warwick, and 
York (West Riding); and six in 
Scotland, in the counties of Aber- 
deen and Edinburgh. In connection 
with these outbreaks forty-three 
diseased animals were killed, and 
635 liealth^ cattle which had been 
