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SHEEP-SCAB. 
Since our last report of this disease we find that an unusual 
large number of scabby sheep have been sent here from the 
Continent. They have chiefly come from Geestemunde and 
Bremen, but some have been exported from Antwerp and 
Ostend. In every instance the affected sheep have been 
slaughtered at the wharf. Scab is rife at this time among 
our home flocks and also in Ireland. 
Facts and Observations. 
The Brown Bequest. — Negotiations now practically 
completed have finally secured, for the benefit of science and 
of humanity, the appropriation of this now important fund for 
the foundation of an Institute of Comparative Pathology, in 
which the diseases of animals will be studied in their relation 
to those of man, under the charge of accomplished experts. 
In the course of the eighteen years that the Brown legacy of 
<£ 15,000 has accumulated, it has rolled up an actual capital 
of £ 35 , 000 . The conditions of the bequest and the provi- 
sions of the Mortmain Act interposed so many difficulties 
that, had not great energy and liberality been shown by the 
medical members of the Senate of the University of London 
in combating the legal difficulties at every step, this fund 
would have reverted, under the eccentric conditions of the 
founder's will, to the odd purpose of teaching Welsh in the 
University of Dublin, where few people, we may suppose, 
would have cared to learn it. Rather than the valuable aid 
to science now secured should be lost, Dr. Quain, a member of 
the Senate, recently offered personally to present £2000 for the 
purchase of a site. Mr. Cunliffe, the well-known banker, has, 
however, since generously and spontaneously assumed this 
charge, and has vested in the hands of Dr. Sharpey and 
Dr. Quain, as trustees, the sum necessary for the purchase 
of a site, &c. This has been selected, and within no distant 
period we shall have in London an institution with an income 
of about £1500 a year, where the diseases of animals will be 
treated and studied, and which w T e may fairly expect to confer 
not only immediate and material benefits on the great agri- 
cultural interests of the country by the elucidation of the 
causes and relations of epizootic diseases, but probably greater 
if more remote advantages in the research after the intimate 
