ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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• The report having been unanimously adopted, on the 
motion of R. Barker, Esq., seconded by Lord Faversham, 
the Duke of Marlborough was elected president for the year 
ensuing the Chester meeting. 
Votes of thanks to the auditors and the chairman closed 
the proceedings. 
The following is the report above alluded to : 
Annual Veterinary Report. 
The following annual report was read from the gover- 
nors of the Royal Veterinary College : 
“In presenting their annual report to the Council, the 
governors desire, in the first place, to express their gratifi- 
cation that during the past year nothing has occurred to 
disturb the harmony which has so long and so advanta- 
geously existed between the Royal Agricultural Society and 
the Royal Veterinary College. They see in this continued 
co-operation an assurance that the agricultural community 
fully appreciates the efforts which are made to advance the 
science of veterinary medicine, in its application to the 
diseases of cattle, sheep, and pigs, and thus to raise this im- 
portant branch of the healing art above the practice of the 
uneducated empiric. During the past year the governors 
have had under consideration several important questions 
relating to the instruction of the pupils, and they early took 
means to render this as practical as scholastic discipline 
would permit, by the appointment of a new demonstrator of 
anatomy, so as to relieve the professors from having to occupy 
so much of their time in mere expositions of the arrange- 
ment of the structural parts of the animal body. The carry- 
ing out of this plan has been attended with the happiest 
result, as the professors have been enabled to extend their 
lectures and demonstrations on the nature and causes of the 
various diseases affecting domesticated animals. With refer- 
ence to the lectures specially devoted to the subject, most 
important to the interests of the general agriculturist, nothing 
has occurred to prevent their regular delivery four times a 
week throughout the entire session, and they have been 
attended by the whole of the pupils of the college ; and with 
what success is shown by the fact that the proportionate 
number which have passed their examination, and been 
admitted members of the Royal College of Veterinary Sur- 
geons, has been greater than in former years. 
“Pathological Anatomy. — Throughout the past year 
there have been received from the members of the society very 
