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January 23rd, 1866. 
R. Angus Smith, Pk.D., F.R.S., &c., President, in 
the Chair. 
M. le Marquis Anatole de Caligny, of Versailles, Civil 
Engineer, was elected a Corresponding Member of the 
Thomas Graham, F.R.S., &c., Master of the Mint ; A. W. 
Hofmann, F.R.S., &c. ; Joseph Prestvvich, F.R.S , &c. ; and 
Andrew Crombie Ramsay, F.R.S., &c., were elected Hono- 
rary Members of the Society. 
A conversation took place respecting the cattle plague, in 
the course of which Mr. Baxendell stated that the results 
of inquiries he had made had led him to believe that the total 
mortality among cattle from plague and all other diseases, 
during the past year, had been very little, if at all, above the 
average rate of the last ten years ; thus indicating that the 
plague had, to a great extent, displaced pleuro-pneumonia 
and other dangerous diseases, and that therefore no just cause 
at present existed for the feeling of alarm which prevailed 
throughout the country. 
A paper was read entitled “ Notes on a Section of Chat 
Moss, near Astley Station,” by W. Brockbank, Esq. 
By the kindness of ray friend Henry Mere Ormerod, Esq., 
I have had the opportunity of examining a section of the 
strata at Chat Moss, exposed in the excavations at present 
beiim made to obtain marl for the reclamation of the moss. 
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