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* From Consul Campbell to the Earl of Clarendon, dated Memel, 
March 30, 1857. 
; “Animal loses appetite. Body trembles. Gums inflame. Eye dull, with 
discharge. Food becomes powder in stomach. Severe diarrhoea. No cure 
discovered. Eight days dead.” 
Communications were then read from Mr. Hall Maxwell, 
C.B., Secretary of the Highland and Agricultural Society of 
Scotland, and from Captain Croker, Secretary of the Royal 
Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland, expressing 
their willingness to concur with the Royal Agricultural 
Society in arrangements for despatching a Veterinary 
Inspector to districts abroad where the cattle murrain is at 
present raging. The Council agreed to the following 
resolution : 
“That it is expedient to send a competent Veterinary Professor to 
examine into the nature of the cattle-murrain on the Continent. That the 
Society gladly accepts the co-operation of the Highland and Agricultural 
Society of Scotland, and the Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of 
Ireland, in this step. The Society ventures to recommend that Professor 
Simonds, of the Royal Veterinary College, be commissioned to this task. 
That he be empowered to take with him a German Veterinary Surgeon, 
established in London, quite competent for the business, and who would 
smooth the difficulties of the German language. It is supposed that about 
three weeks would be required for a satisfactory examination. That the 
Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland be informed that the Royal 
Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland propose to share the expense 
of this mission with the Royal Agricultural Society of England , and that 
they be asked to join in the same manner.” 
[Since going to press, we have received the following :] 
Brompton Barracks, Chatham; April 23, 1857. 
Gentlemen, — I have no doubt that your attention has 
been directed to the able communications of the ‘ Times’ 
correspondent, which appeared yesterday and the day before, 
on the subject of the murrain in cattle. 
What I wish to state with reference to those articles is, 
that the observations I have addressed to you on this subject 
are confined, at present, to what is there described, The 
real Murrain of Cattle Plague/’ “Rinder Pest,” " The Loser 
Diirre.” 
Yours truly, 
T. Walton Mayer, V.S. R.E.F.E. 
To the Editors of the { Veterinarian * 
