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CENTRAL CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE. 
IMPORTATION OF CATTLE. 
At the ordinary monthly meeting of the Council, held 
June 6th, at the Salisbury Hotel, Sir Massey Lopes, M.P., 
President of the Chamber, in the chair, the Secretary read com- 
munications from various chambers of agriculture respecting 
the importation of foreign cattle, which viewed with alarm 
the Order of Council abolishing the safeguard against the 
importation of foreign cattle from districts known to be in- 
fected by pleuro-pneumonia. 
Mr. T. Wilson moved, and Mr. Masfen seconded the 
following resolution : — “ That this council views with alarm 
the recent Order of Council by which cattle direct from 
Russia are taken to the Metropolitan Market, and by which 
also cattle from Holland, where pleuro-pneumonia now ex- 
tensively exists, are permitted free access to any part of the 
United Kingdom after undergoing a detention of only twelve 
hours.” 
CENTRAL VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
[official report.] 
The monthly meeting of this Society was held on June 1st, the 
President, G. Fleming, Esq., F.R.G.S., M.R.C.Y.S., &c., in the 
chair. 
Messrs. H. Stanley, W. Helmore, J. Broderick, and T. Hethering- 
ton, were present for the first time since their election, and duly 
apprised of their admission. 
ANTIDOTES FOR STRYCHNINE. 
Mr. F. J. Mavor read a paper on “ The effects of Atropine and 
Morphine in neutralising the action of Strychnine,” detailing a 
number of experiments performed by him to determine the results 
of the action of these remedies singly, and in combination with each 
other. From the observations recorded by Mr. Mavor, there 
appears abundant reason for confirming the assertions of previous 
investigators, that substances of the narcotic class possess a remark- 
able power of controlling the violent tonic spasms occasioned by 
the effects of strychnia on the nervous system. Such observations, 
when perfected by additional investigation under other and modified 
influences, will doubtless prove of great service in advancing the 
success of treatment in poisoning by the alkaloid, and also in 
