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manent abode. The representative council will be annually re- 
newed. We shall hold our general, our scientific, and our social 
meetings. We have already commenced a collection of books, and 
a large and valuable library will be, doubtless, formed with great 
rapidity. A museum will be the next object of our solicitude; and, 
I trust that, before long, we shall be enabled to give substantial 
encouragement to the members of the Institute for contributions to 
science. A great object of the present meeting has been to bring 
together the provincial and metropolitan members, that they may 
have the opportunity of communing freely with each other upon 
all these subjects, and upon any and every other subject which 
may bear upon their political and social welfare, and for the especial 
purpose of promoting the greatest desideratum of all — A MUTUAL 
GOOD UNDERSTANDING.” 
*** There is more than one or two suggestions in this paragraph 
which the members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 
might adopt, and we confidently hope, before long, will adopt, “ in 
the face of every discouragement or difficulty which may present 
itself.” — Ed. Vet. 
ON GRANULAR DISEASE OF THE KIDNEYS. 
By R. H. Semple, Esq., M.R.C.S.E . 
[From the Lancet, 6 March, 1847]. 
“ I HAVE long believed that granular disease of the kidneys is a 
far more common affection than is generally supposed, and that it 
is really the cause of a great number of maladies, such as pleurisy, 
disease of the heart, &c. which are often considered and treated 
as idiopathic diseases. When we consider the dreadful fatality of 
granular degeneration of the kidneys, and the train of secondary 
affections which it entails, it appears to me that the study of renal 
disease has been most unwarrantably neglected in this country, 
notwithstanding the able researches of Dr. Bright, Dr. Christison, 
and others ; and as I think it is the duty of the members of our 
profession to add whatever information they possess to the general 
stock of knowledge, I am induced to offer a few remarks, illustrated 
with cases, upon the disease in question. 
“ In making post-mortem examinations of persons who have died 
from visceral disease, it is most common to find that the kidneys 
deviate from the healthy structure, being sometimes larger, some- 
