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LECTURE ON THE DISEASES OF CATTLE. 
racter, replete with practical remarks and illustrations, which the 
President at the required hour felt himself with evident reluct- 
ance compelled to bring to a close. 
The Petition of the Governors of the Veterinary College and 
Highland Society, printed in our present number, was read at the 
last meeting of Council, as our report will shew, without remark : 
nor is it our intention here to say one word on the subject, further 
than that, for a full and sufficient reply to it, and to that part of it in 
particular in which is contained the notable allegation of the Pro- 
fessors of the Veterinary College, our readers will have but to turn 
to the “ Objections” to the suggested “ alterations,” contained in our 
volume (xix) for this year, page 517 et sequent. 
Extracts from Domestic Journals. 
LECTURE ON THE DISEASES OF CATTLE. 
[Corrected from the “ Mark Lane Express.”] 
The monthly meeting of the members of the London Farmers’ 
Club was resumed at the Club-house, after the usual interval 
during the harvest months, on Monday Oct. 4. 
The subject appointed for discussion was “The Diseases of 
Cattle,” Mr. Cherr}' - having undertaken to open it by a lecture. 
The Chairman said: Gentlemen, — I am happy to meet you again 
on this occasion, when we are about to resume the discussions of 
the club after an interval of three months. The club has, I think 
very wisely, arranged that during the harvest months it will not 
hold its monthly meetings. Gentlemen, we have selected a sub- 
ject for discussion this evening which is a most interesting one to 
every householder in this kingdom. All present must be aware 
that the high price of meat is, in some measure, attributable to 
the serious losses which have occurred within the last few years 
as regards the cattle and sheep of this country. In my own 
county, during the last three years, the disease has decimated a 
number of cattle ; and I am sorry to say that at the present time 
its ravages are so great that many of our leading farmers have 
declined purchasing any, in consequence of the serious losses 
which they have encountered and which they witness around them. 
