Report to the General Meeting. 
mouth disease. They have represented to the Privy Council 
the danger to our home flocks and herds which arises from the 
cattle markets at Smithfield and Deptford being held on the 
same day, and also the necessity of more careful disinfection of 
persons employed in the Foreign Cattle Market before they are 
allowed to attend English cattle. While thankfully recognising 
the prompt action taken by the Privy Council to restrict the 
outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, they have urged the Privy 
Council to call the attention of the Governments of France and 
other foreisrn countries to the serious losses which have been 
sustained by English agriculturists in consequence of the im- 
portation of that disease [with certain cargoes of cattle from 
France, and to press upon those Governments the necessity of 
careful inspection at the port of embarkation of all animals 
exported from their dominions to the United Kingdom. 
The investigation into the causes of Sheep-rot, and the 
practical inquiry into the circumstances attending the out- 
breaks of the last two years, which were announced as in 
progress at the last General Meeting, have been actively 
pursued; and in the recently issued number of the 'Journal' 
will be found a first instalment of the report on the former 
branch of the inquiry, and a complete account of the latter. 
At the Brown Institution the experiments on Anthrax have 
been continued by Dr. Greenfield, and have led to the con- 
clusion that animals may be protected from this disease by 
inoculation with cultivated virus, which produces a mild type 
of the disorder, and renders the animal thus treated insuscep- 
tible of a further attack. A report on these experiments has 
been published in the number of the ' Journal' just issued, and 
it is expected that a further and probably a final report will be 
published in the autumn. 
Four Graduates of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 
presented themselves last January, to compete for the Society's 
Medals and Prizes offered for proficiency in Cattle Pathology. 
The Examiners adjudicated the Gold Medal and First Prize to 
Mr. R. A. Rumboll, of 2, Pennywell Road, Bristol ; the Silver 
Medal and Second Prize to Mr. VV. J. Malvern, of Ross, Here- 
fordshire ; and the Bronze Medal and Third Prize to Mr. E. J. 
Johnson, of South Anston, Rotherham. 
