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ment of cattle diseases being frequently productive of serious loss. 
When the charter was granted, the education of the pupils had 
not been sufficiently provided for. 
The Duke of Richmond admitted the force of the suggestion. 
It was most important that veterinary pupils should be subjected 
to a strict examination as to their capability of treating the diseases 
of cattle, sheep, and other domestic animals 
After some further discussion, his Grace the President was re- 
quested to communicate with the Secretar} T of State on the subject. 
Our short reply to these observations is,jthat had the gentleman 
and nobleman by whom they were made honoured our charter and 
our by-laws with their perusal, they would, we think, have found 
that ample provision had been made by us for carrying out the im- 
portant points to which their observations were directed. 
ON THE EPIZOOTIC DISEASE AT CHOISI-LE-ROI. 
By M. CARRERE, late Interne des Hopitaux. 
DURING the disastrous progress of cholera in Paris, the village 
of Choisi-le-Roi, while perfectly free from the epidemic, was the 
scene of an epizootic disease, of which domestic poultry were the 
only victims. In the history of many other epidemics we find co- 
incidences of this description of peculiar diseases affecting the 
lower animals, while pestilences were decimating mankind. Some- 
times horned cattle, at other times horses, have been especially 
attacked; but there have not been recorded more than two or 
three examples of epizootics among birds. Chabert and Boronio 
have, it is true, described some diseases of birds, observed in 
France and in Lombardy, but the characters of the affections they 
describe are totally different from those observed at Choisi. 
The cholera had scarcely appeared at Paris, when it was gene- 
rally reported that a disease of most destructive mortality was 
raging among the poultry throughout the commune. Here, as at 
Paris, the cry of “poisoning” was loudly made: all persons who 
were persuaded that the food and drink of mankind were mixed 
with poison, found no difficulty in convincing themselves that 
similar villany was practised in the poultry yards. But the mor- 
tality soon reached such a pitch, that this idea was abandoned, 
and then it was generally reported that the cholera was the cause 
of the epizootic. 
Wishing to arrive at the source of these rumours, I learned that, 
since the 3d of April, a vast number of fowls had perished in 
