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Ordinary Meeting, December 24th, 1872. 
J. P. Joule, D.C.L., LL.D., F.RS., &c., President, in the 
Chair. 
The President drew attention to the increasing number 
of cases of hydrophobia. There was every reason for 
believing that this dreadful disorder was communicated 
from one animal to another by a bite, and seldom if ever 
was spontaneously developed. Inasmuch therefore as the 
effects of a bite nearly always occurred within four months, 
it would only be necessary to isolate all dogs for that period 
in order to stamp out the disease. That was the opinion of 
Dr. Bardsley, whose elaborate paper will be found in the 
4th volume of the Memoirs of the Society, and probably 
gave rise to the practice of confining dogs at certain periods 
of the year, which has unfortunately been rendered to a 
great extent nugatory in consequence of having been only 
partially adopted. 
Ordinary Meeting, January 7th, 1873. 
J. P. Joule, D.C.L., LL.D., F.RS., &c., President, in the 
Chair. 
Mr. J ulius Allmann was elected an Ordinary Member of 
the Society. 
The President referred to the great loss which the 
Society had experienced by the death of one of its most 
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