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MISCELLANEA. 
of that gentleman, to give notice of motion (which must lie dormant 
for three months), that By-law 3, Sect Y. be repealed. 
The Secretary also gave notice of a motion to alter Bye-law 4, 
Sect. VI. 
A letter was read from Mr. Bailey, the artist by whom the ex- 
cellent cast of the Centaur — the crest of the Royal College — was 
made, expressing a desire that the Council would patronize, or by 
their name sanction, the sale of the cast to certificated members of 
their College. It being a matter, however, with which the Council 
could not possibly interfere — altogether, in fact, a private affair — 
the Secretary was directed, in the name of the Council, to decline 
taking any measures relative thereto. 
Messrs. Ernes and Braby informed the Council that they had re- 
cently been served with summonses from the Farriers’ Company, 
for practising within their alleged jurisdiction. They believed so 
many a$ fifty had been served. A discussion arose as to the le- 
gality of such proceedings, or the object such Company had in 
view ; when 
Mr. Mayhew gave notice of motion — “ That the Council support 
any member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in any 
legal measures that may be taken to resist such summonses.” 
MISCELLANEA. 
Examination of the Nasal Secretion in Glanders 
in the Horse. 
In the earlier stages of the disease, Professor Landerer, of 
Athens, records that the fluid which flows from the nostrils is 
without smell, or any other conspicuous property ; but, as the dis- 
ease advances, it becomes green or reddish-coloured, of a slimy 
consistence, and nauseous odour. In the former stage it is slightly 
acid to test paper, coagulates by boiling, with a distinct odour 
of acetic acid, and is precipitated in white flocks by alcohol and 
ether. In the latter stages it becomes alkaline, evolves ammonia 
when heated with slaked lime, and blackens silver instruments, 
owing to the presence of sulphuretted hydrogen. Accurate ex- 
amination proved the fluid in the later stage to contain muriate 
and hydro-sulphuret of ammonia, salts of sulphuric acid, watery 
extractive possessing a very disagreeable odour, a rancid fatty 
matter containing sulphur, albumen, phosphate, and carbonate of 
lime . — Medical Times. 
