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ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Monthly Council : Wednesday, April 6. 
Mr . Wells , M.P . , reported that in order to give effect 
to the resolution arrived at by the council at their last meet- 
ing, the committee recommended that a sum of £25 be placed 
at the disposal of Professor Simonds for making experiments 
in pleuro-pneumonia, especially with regard to preventive 
measures. The committee had received the report of the 
governors of the Royal Veterinary College, as well as a 
communication in reference to the resolution passed at the 
last meeting of the council. The report having been 
adopted, the last-mentioned communication was read as 
follows : 
Royal Veterinaey College, March 23rd, 1870. 
My Lords and Gentlemen, —The governors of the Royal Vete- 
rinary College having considered the communication from the 
council of the Royal Agricultural Society, dated March 3, 1870, beg 
to express their hope that the amount of the grant of £200 a year 
from the Royal Agricultural Society will not be diminished. 
In proof of their earnest desire that the objects of the Royal 
Agricultural Society shall be attained, they beg to place the £50 a 
year, which they have for some years appropriated to the purchase 
of specimens of disease in cattle, sheep, and pigs, in the hands of 
the council, and have made arrangements to the extent of their 
accommodation for the reception of any cases the council may 
forward to the college : and, further, the governors of the Royal 
Veterinary College request the council of the Royal Agricultural 
Society to transmit to them such subjects for investigation to be un- 
dertaken in the college as they may decide upon, and the governors 
will instruct Professor Simonds to conduct such investigation. 
The governors have instructed Professor Simonds to report the 
circumstances connected with the diseases manifested in such speci- 
mens as may be provided by the council, and the treatment thereof, 
to each meeting of their “ committee for general purposes,” which 
meetings take place quarterly, and from which such reports will be 
immediately transmitted to the council. 
The principal is requested to transmit the communication now 
agreed upon to the council of the Royal Agricultural Society. 
I have the honour to be, my lords and gentlemen, your obedient 
servant, 
C. N. Newdegate, Chairman. 
To the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society. 
