ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 489 
Anatomy, Physiology of the Horse, Ox, Sheep, Pig, Dog, and 
other domesticated animals ; one on the Pathology and Treat- 
ment of the Horse, the principles of shoeing, and the practical 
duties of the Profession ; one on the Pathology of the Ox, 
and other domesticated animals ; and that the time occupied at 
each table by the examiners be not less than twenty 
minutes. Thomas Jex, 
F. R. Silvester, 
E. N. Gabriel. 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
RUSSIAN CATTLE DISEASE. 
At a meeting of the Council held, on the 27th June, at- 
tention was called to the circumstance that Lord Berners 
had stated to the Council at their previous week’s meeting, 
that he had seen a notice in the Press of that week, of a 
cattle-pest in Russia of so virulent a character, that the 
Prussian government had interdicted the importation of 
cattle, hides, fat, wool, hair, and even of herdsmen, from 
that empire into the Prussian dominions. Lord Berners had, 
on the previous evening, named this report to the Earl of 
Clarendon in the House of Lords, when his lordship at once 
expressed his willingness to render every service in his power 
in reference to a subject of so much importance to the agri- 
cultural interest of this country, and stated his intention of at 
once instituting the requisite inquiries by despatches to be 
conveyed on the following morning by a special messenger to 
Berlin. The Earl of Clarendon requested Lord Berners to 
assure the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of 
England, that on this subject, and on all others which came 
within the control of his department at the Foreign-office, it 
would at all times give him the greatest satisfaction to receive 
and endeavour to carry out their wishes. The following 
communications have already been made to the Council in 
reference to this cattle-plague. 
“Lord Wodehouse presents his compliments to the Secre- 
tary to the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and is 
directed by the Earl of Clarendon to acquaint him, for the 
information of the President and Trustees, that his lordship’s 
attention having on Tuesday last been called by Lord Berners 
to an article in the Press , stating that the cattle-plague had 
