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back of the forementioned sheep and partly upon another healthy 
sheep for about five minutes, and on the first sheep punctures 
were made in three places with a lancet. On the second day 
the places on the skin of both sheep were of a darker red colour 
and dryer than on the other parts of the backs. — 3d day. There 
has been discharged upon the surface of the spots a fatty, greasy 
fluid, which dries into thin yellow scurf ; this scurf was fixed 
upon the skin until the 14th day ; it was then thrown off, and 
the skin itself underneath appeared of a bright red, and soft, 
without elevations or any other change. Minute observations 
of these sheep up to the 1st of January, 1828, discovered not 
the slightest change from health in any part of their bodies : 
there was not the least trace of the scab. 
Lynn Advertiser. 
THE VETERINARIAN, FEBRUARY 1, 1851. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
We learn from the Council Report for the present month, 
that before the observations we are now about to pen shall 
meet the public eye, Mr. Thomas Turner will have resigned 
the presidentship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons; 
and that his successor, whoever he may be, will by a vote of 
Council assembled on the 29th ult., be elected into his place. 
We do not profess to know for certain on whom the election may 
fall, although we have heard the names of two or three gentle- 
men mentioned as likely to be put in nomination. For our 
own part, we have no predilection in the matter further than 
that the appointment, being the highest honorary post a man 
can occupy in the veterinary world, should in our opinion be 
conferred upon some one or other of the respected elders of the 
profession, attention being paid to fitness to undertake so high 
and responsible an office, and to readiness to perform, to the 
best of his ability, the duties thereof. Of all others, the indivi- 
dual we should like to see occupying the station is he who, 
while he is respected and beloved by those around him, com- 
bines in his own person that conciliatoriness of manner and 
address, that soundness of judgment and tact of action, which 
