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taleut of the metropolis and the provinces, and will deserve 
to obtain the assistance of those members of the profession 
who can realise that to remain as we now are, and have been, 
is to imperil our existence as a scientific body — if we really 
exist at all as such. 
It is to be hoped that when the society is once fairly 
started donations of books, as well as pathological contribu- 
tions, may be received, with a view to forming a reference 
library and museum. 
It will be observed that I have alluded to the proposed 
organization as the “ Central Veterinary Medical Society.” 
Whatever designation its projectors may ultimately fix upon, 
I scarcely think that of Veterinary Pathological Society 
would be sufficiently explicit, or would justly indicate its 
objects, which, to be of public interest and utility, must be 
more than those of a merely pathological character. 
CANCER OF THE PENIS — AMPUTATION. 
By D. B. Howell, M.R.C.V.S., Reading. 
The subject of this case was a bay pony, the property of Mr. 
George Lovejoy, librarian of this town, who purchased him 
out of a Welsh drove when a yearling, in 1861. In May, 
1863, 1 castrated him, and from that time, with the exception 
of a few attacks of influenza, he enjoyed perfect health. In 
July, 1869, I removed nine warty excrescences from the penis, 
the largest being about the size of a pigeon’s egg, and several 
others from the scrotum, inner side of the thighs, &c. These 
tumours, which had been gradually increasing in size for the 
previous three to four months, were entirely removed by the 
operation, and each wound properly cicatrised. 
In the early part of the present year my attention was 
called to the state of the penis, which protruded from the 
prepuce, and could not be retracted, owing to the presence 
of several scirrhous tumours on the glans and body of the 
organ. Seeing at once that it would be necessary to perform 
a formidable operation, I hesitated in consequence of the 
extreme coldness of the weather, and deferred removing the 
growths until March 2nd. 
It is probable that the disease commenced shortly after the 
removal of the warts, although it did not attract notice until 
about the middle of January last, as up to that time, notwith- 
