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Facts and Observations. 
Grant of the Royal Agricultural Society to the 
Royal Veterinary College. — At the meeting of the 
Council of the Society, December 8th, Lord Bridport (Chair- 
man of the Veterinary Committee), having presented the 
usual annual report, Mr. Jacob Wilson drew the attention of 
the Council to the question of the equivalent which the 
Society obtained for the annual grant of £200 to the Royal 
Veterinary College. 
After a conversation, it was resolved (with two dissentients) 
that the Veterinary Committee, after conferring with the 
governing body of the Royal Veterinary College, be requested 
to make a special report to the Council, on the suggestion 
made by Mr. Jacob Wilson, that a portion of the grant of 
£200 be in future placed at the disposal of the Veterinary 
Committee, to obtain reports on special subjects of interest 
connected with veterinary science — the committee to report 
to the Council at their meeting in March. 
Smithfield Club. — It appears from the annual report of 
the Club that its finances are in a flourishing state. The 
awards made this year in cups, medals, and money, exceed 
£2000, and the Club has cash in hand to the amount of 
£2692 : besides £4584 invested in consols. Earl Powis 
succeeds the Duke of Marlborough as President, and the 
Marquis of Exeter is the President elect. 
The number of persons paying for admission to the 
Agricultural Hall falls below that of 1868 by 1758, not- 
withstanding which the numbers passing the turnstiles is 
returned as 109,024, viz. : — on Monday 785 ; Tuesday 23,597 ; 
Wednesday 38,789; Thursday 31,879; and on Friday 
13,974 . — Chamber of Agriculture . 
The East Cumberland Agricultural Society and 
the Foot and Mouth Disease. — It is announced that 
the East Cumberland Agricultural Society will abandon 
its Show of Christmas Stock in consequence of the great 
prevalence of the foot and mouth disease. 
The holding of St. Faith's fair, Norwich, was abandoned 
from the same cause in 1845. 
Alleged case of Foot and Mouth Disease in the 
Human Subject. — The Scotchman of November 6th says 
that this disease does attack human beings has been recently 
demonstrated in the neighbourhood of Forres, Morayshire, 
