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Monthly Council, Apit 6, 1802. 
the hope that the old association be- 
tween Albemarle Street and the 
Royal Agricultural Society might 
long continue in the same spirit in 
which it had hitherto always existed. 
Continuity was everything in matters 
of this kind, and the very agreeable 
reply of “ John Murray the Fourth ” 
— a worthy successor to his excellent 
father — gave promise of the continu- 
ance of the athicable relations which 
had for so long existed between the 
Society and its publisher. 
Chemical. 
Mr. Warren stated that the report 
of the Woburn Sub-Committee had 
been received and adopted. A letter 
had been read from the Departmental 
Committee of the Board of Agricul- 
ture on the adulteration of fertilisers 
and feeding stuffs, asking the Council 
to appoint a representative of the 
Chemical Committee to give evidence 
before the Committee. After careful 
consideration of this request, the 
Committee thought that it would be 
sufficient if Dr. Voelcker, who they 
understood had been already sum- 
moned as a witness, handed in a 
memorandum of the action taken by 
the Society in this matter since the 
adoption of Lord Lichfield’s motion 
of 1869. 
Seeds and Plant Diseases. 
Sir John Thoeold reported that 
copies were ready of Mr. Carruthers’ 
pamphlet explanatory of the set of 
the eight diagrams of the wheat 
plant, after Francis Bauer, prepared 
by the Society. As already arranged, 
one copy of this pamphlet would be 
included with each set of the diagrams 
sold ; but it was proposed that extra 
copies of the pamphlet for the use of 
scholars should be issued at the price 
of Zd. each. The Committee had 
made arrangements for the experi- 
ments with bouillie bordolaise as a 
remedy against the potato disease to 
be carried out this season, and they 
had selected the farms in the districts 
appointed at the last meeting, upon 
which the experiments should be 
made. The question had been con- 
sidered as to whether the experiments 
should be confined to the homllie bor- 
delaise mixture as used last year, or 
whether they should include the 
modifications introduced by the addi- 
tion of molasses, and it had been 
decided to adhere to the plan as 
settled at the last meeting. 
Veterinary. 
Sir John Thorold (Chairman) re- 
ported that as difficulties appeared to 
have arisen in some of the counties 
in dealing with the outbreak of foot- 
and-mouth disease, owing to doubts 
as to whether the powers of the 
County Council Committees under 
the Contagious Diseases (Animals) 
Acts ceased upon the dissolution of 
the Councils at the expiration of their 
term of office, or whether such powers 
continued until the reappointment of 
the Committees after the election of 
-the new Councils, the - Committee 
recommended, in order to obtain an 
authoritative pronouncement upon 
the point, that a letter be addressed 
to the President of the Local Govern- 
ment Board, asking whether it was 
a fact that the powers of the County 
Council Committees so ceased, or 
whether they remained in force until 
the new Committees were appointed. 
[For the Board’s reply, see page Ixii.] 
A letter had been read from Mr. Henry 
Tollemache, M.P., suggesting that the 
Society should issue some short in- 
structions as to the best and speediest 
way of curing animals affected with 
foot-and-mouth disease, but the Com- 
mittee recommended that Mr. Tolle- 
mache be informed that the Society 
could not take the responsibility of 
publishing any particular course of 
treatment. The Committee recom- 
mended that Mr. Thomas Horton, of 
20 Jury Street, Warwick, be appointed 
the Society’s Provincial Veterinary 
Surgeon for the county of Warwick 
in the room of the late Mr. O. Hills. 
• The following report had been pre- 
sented by Professor Brown : — 
Foot-and-mouth Disease. — 
' The report which was presented at 
the last meeting of the Committee 
on March 1 gave a history of foot- 
and-mouth disease since the re- 
introduction on February 4. It 
was stated in the report that the 
disease had suddenly appeared in 
Edinburgh on February 27. Since 
■ that time seven outbreaks have 
occurred in the city of Edinbm;gb 
