viii Report to the General Meeting. 
The Council have decided that the Derby Meeting shall com- 
mence on Wednesday, July 13th, and close on the following 
Monday evening. 
The district assigned for the Country Meeting of 1882 com- 
prises Berkshire, Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Hampshire, 
Kent, Somersetshire, Surrey, Sussex, and Wiltshire. 
The experiments upon Anthracoid Diseases, such as Splenic 
Apoplexy, Quarter-evil, &c., are still being carried out at the 
Brown Institution. Dr. Greenfield, the Professor-Superintendent 
of the Institution, has submitted to the Council an Abstract 
Report stating that the experiments have been entirely suc- 
cessful, and have established the fact that an animal which has 
been successfully inoculated with modified virus is protected 
from the effects of future inoculation with the unmodified virus 
of the disease. The detailed report on these experiments will 
be published in the next number of the 'Journal;' and having 
regard to the great importance of the subject the Council have 
made a grant for the ensuing year for the purpose of enabling 
this conclusion to be put to practical test. 
The Council have had under their consideration the very 
serious outbreak of Sheep-rot which caused so much mortality 
amongst the flocks of the country during the past year, and 
have instituted a practical as well as a scientific investigation 
into the whole subject. They have also placed within the reach 
of every one an account of our present knowledge on the subject 
by the republication of Prof. Simonds's essay on Sheep-rot, and 
by his paper on the subject in the Spring No. of the ' Journal ' 
of this year. 
The Council regret to observe that Foot-and-mouth Disease is 
again prevalent in several districts, after an almost complete 
immunity from the disease for nearly two years. With reference 
to Pleuro-pneumonia, the Council has the satisfaction of report- 
ing that a considerable diminution in the number of cases, as 
compared with last year, has been effected by the measures 
