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ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
It was then moved by Lord Bridport , and seconded by 
Colonel Challoner — 
“That the request contained in this communication be 
complied with." 
A discussion then ensued, in which Mr. Thompson sup- 
ported the motion, and Mr. Jacob Wilson explained the views 
of the committee, and their reasons for not acquiescing in the 
request of the governors of the college. On the question 
being put to the vote. Lord Bridport’s resolution was lost by 
nineteen noes to six ayes. 
The report of the governors of the Royal Veterinary College 
having been read, it was moved by the Hon . IT. G . Liddell } 
M.P. , seconded by Mr. J. B. Bent , M.B. , and carried unani- 
mously — 
“ That this council call the attention of the Privy Council 
to so much of the report of the governors of the Royal Vete- 
rinary College as relates to rinderpest, and urge the Privy 
Council to take this report into their immediate and careful 
consideration." 
Extracts from the report of the governors of the Royal 
Veterinary College to the council of the Royal Agricultural 
Society : 
During the past year (1869) events have occurred which tend to 
prove the increasing importance to the members of the profession of 
a complete and practical acquaintance with the diseases of farm stock, 
and especially with those which, normally existing in a mitigated 
form, are likely to assume an epizootic character, and occasion 
serious loss to the farmer, although they may not be essentially 
malignant in their nature. Such, for example, is the malady com- 
monly known as “ mouth-and-foot disease." 
Some interesting cases of disease of the skin of lambs were 
brought to the notice of the students. The disease possessed all the 
characteristics of the affection known as Crusta lactea in the human 
infant. The parts principally affected by the morbid action were the 
sides of the neck of the animal ; but, in some cases, even the shoul- 
ders were ultimately attacked. Thick crusts of a dark colour covered 
the skin, which was also much inflamed and cracked. The young 
animals suffered much from local irritation and symptomatic fever, 
under which some of them sank. The cases, however, were not nume- 
rous in the several flocks in which the disease appeared, not more than 
six or eight among 150 to 200 animals. Application of the oxide of zinc 
ointment proved beneficial ; but careful nursing and protection, both 
from hot and wet weather, were needed as adjuncts to the treatment. 
Some other novel cases occurred in lambs, in which death re- 
sulted from parasites existing on the skin. The parasites in ques- 
tion were those commonly known as ticks ( Ixodes Ricinus ). These 
parasites abound in most countries, and are met with both on wild 
