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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ROYAL AND 
mittee appointed to take into consideration this department of 
agricultural science. He thus addresses the Minister of Agricul- 
ture and Commerce : — 
Sir, — This periodical concours has produced the happiest 
results, and the expectations of yourself and the government 
have been more than realized. More than 300 veterinary sur- 
geons have been rewarded by the reception of your public thanks, 
or have received your medals, or other testimonies of your ap- 
probation. We reckon among them several of the directors and 
professors of our own and of foreign veterinary schools, and 
some of them have occupied high situations in the administration 
of their country. 
Your society has this year received twenty-one MS. essays 
and cases, and fifteen printed works : they have been addressed 
to you by twenty-six veterinary surgeons, or proprietors of cat- 
tle, domestic and foreign, civil and military. The number of 
essays and other works has diminished : they have found their 
way into the monthly and other journals of veterinary science 
and agriculture, and have thus been more diffused over the 
country, than they could have been in the memoirs of our society. 
I would beg leave to present an account of some of the most 
important of these works. 
PRINTED WORKS. 
The printed works having been submitted to the judgment of 
the public, your committee does not deem it necessary to give 
more than a very summary account of them. 
1. M. Ferdinand de Nanzio, director of the veterinary school 
at Naples, and at present at Paris, has presented us with the 
prospectus of an Italian journal of veterinary medicine, and 
including the rearing and medical treatment of all useful ani- 
mals, which he is about to publish. 
2. The editors of the journal of practical veterinary medicine 
have continued to send us their monthly periodical, filled with 
good essays and cases. 
3. The director and professors of the royal veterinary school 
at Toulouse have sent to the society a memoir, which they have 
published on the epizootic — the rot, — which prevailed during the 
last year among the sheep in some of the departments of the 
south of France, and which has been exceedingly fatal. This 
memoir, published on the very spot, has been of great service to 
the farmers. 
4. M. Lessona, director of the veterinary school of Turin, has 
published in Italian an essay on the non-contagiousness of peri- 
