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ing to meet the views of the Council in a manner which they 
trust will prove satisfactory to tlie members of both institutions. 
The (jovernors have received a very able report from Professor 
Simonds. Almost the whole of the very valuable information 
which the Professor has furnished will be found incorporated in 
this communication. 
During the past year, 1869, events have occurred which tend to 
prove the increasing importance to the members of the veterinary 
profession of a complete and practical acquaintance with the 
diseases of farm stock, and especially with those which, normally 
existing in a mitigated form, are likely to assume an epizootic 
character, and occasion serious loss to the farmer, although they 
may not be essentially malignant in their nature or destructive 
to life. Such, for example, is the malady commonly known as 
"Mouth and Foot Disease." 
In accordance Avith the agreemeut between the Royal Agricul- 
tural Society and the College, the inculcation of correct prin- 
ciples in the science of veterinary medicine has been steadily 
adhered to. It is not possible that the most complete system of 
tuition in collegiate establishments should afford to the rising 
members of the profession the general exemplification in detail 
which can be obtained only through an extended practice in the 
country ; but every facility for imparting as much knowledge of 
this kind as is possible, during the limited period devoted to 
study in the college, has been afforded to the students. 
The essential sciences of anatomy, physiology, and therapeutics, 
as a basis of practical knowledge, have received all the attention 
which their importance demands ; and the painstaking student, 
who has made himself acquainted with these principles and with 
the practical duties of his profession as far as the opportunities 
afforded him in the College will permit, leaves the institution 
well prepared to commence the arduous duties of his profession. 
The course of lectures on the science and practice of veterinary 
medicine, in relation to the animals of the farm, was begun at 
the end of the Christmas vacation, 1868-9, and continued to the 
end of April, when the summer vacation ensued. In October 
the lectures were recommenced, and uninterruptedly delivered 
up to Christmas. Four lectures a week were given during the 
whole educational term for the year. 
Advantage has also been taken of the receipt at the College 
of specimens of morbid anatomy during the course of instruc- 
tion. The specimens principally were illustrative of the changes 
produced in the lungs by cancerous deposit, scrofula, contagious 
pleuro-pneumonia and ordinarv pneumonia, pya?mia, and the 
.existence of entozoa (Jilaria hronchialis) ; in the liver by in- 
