326 THE NATURE AND ORIGTN OF BLOOD-GLOBULES. 
into the diseases of cattle, sheep, and pigs, has not hitherto 
been sufficiently set apart for that purpose. They therefore 
recommend that for the future the annual veterinary grant 
of £200 be divided under two heads : (1) That £150 shall be 
paid to the Royal Veterinary College for the general advance- 
ment of veterinary science in reference to cattle, sheep, and 
pigs, as heretofore ; and (2) That £50 be retained under the 
control of the Council for the purpose of being applied to 
experiments on the diseases of cattle, sheep, and pigs. They 
further recommend, that in consideration of the general grant 
from the Society the Governors of the Royal Veterinary Col- 
lege shall undertake that the Professor of Cattle Pathology 
shall carry out such experiments at the College as the Council 
shall require, the cost not to exceed the above-named amount ; 
that the result be communicated to the Council immediately 
on the conclusion of the experiments; and that a detailed 
account of the expenditure of the £50 shall be furnished each 
year with the annual report. This report was adopted. 
THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OE BLOOD-GLOBULES. 
MM. A. Bechamp and A. Estor have recently brought 
before the French Academy a paper on this subject, which 
will be found in Comptes Rendus, 7th Feb. 1870. They 
remark that the blood-globules of man and the mammalia are 
usually regarded as small elastic masses, in which there is 
neither nucleus nor membrane. Deceived, they say, b\r 
their appearance under the microscope, these globules are 
taken for simple homogeneous masses, and they offer what 
they consider a demonstration that they are really masses 
of molecular granulations, agglutinated microferments 
( microzymas ). They state that when blood is received 
directly from the vessel wffiich supplies it, in a glass con- 
taining alcohol (45°), it remains quite limpid, neither de- 
positing fibrine nor globules. Soon, how 7 ever,the transparency 
of the field is diminished, and an abundant deposit is found 
at the bottom of the vessel, wffiich the microscope shows to 
be composed almost exclusively of molecular granulations, 
free and mobile, and agglutinated. We can, they say, cul- 
tivate these granulations and promote their rapid prolifera- 
tion. To do this the first mixture is thrown on a filter, the 
precipitate is retained, but some micro-ferments always pass, 
which are so prolific that at a temperature of 25° to 35° (C.) 
after a couple of hours another deposit takes place, and after 
