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success. Sir John enlarged on the advantage of peace, and 
the horror of war, which ended in the desolation of a country 
and the ruin of its inhabitants. He congratulated the 
Emperor on having declared that the Empire was peace. He 
returned to the subject of cruelty to animals, and noticed the 
horse, the most noble and useful of animals, who was so fre- 
quently treated with cruelty by his masters, while it w r as 
their duty as well as their interest to treat him with humanity. 
As a proof of the truth of that fact, he mentioned the name 
of the celebrated horse-tamer, Mr. Rarey, w T ho had come 
from England to be introduced to the meeting, and was then 
present. Mr. Rarey had the previous day, for the fifth 
time, given a lesson in the presence of Queen Victoria, which 
lasted several hours, during which he subdued the most 
vicious horses without w 7 hip or spur. Before he presented 
Mr. Rarey to the meeting, Sir John asked leave to relate an 
anecdote mentioned by Mr. Rarey himself. At a dinner 
given to the celebrated horse-tamer in London, the chair- 
man, addressing him after dinner, said : “ Though you have 
tamed Cruiser, the most intractable horse in the country, 
and the zebra that was so wild during the seven years he 
Avas confined in the Zoological Gardens in the Regent’s Park, 
there is an animal in England which you will never succeed 
in subduing, whatever skill you may use.” And this animal, 
added Sir John, this meeting will be astonished to hear is 
an Englishman. (Great laughter and applause.) Mr. Rarey 
w-as then introduced amidst great cheering. 
After the meeting, the English deputation w T ere invited to 
a sumptuous entertainment, when the usual loyal toasts were 
given. It w T as considered that the English society would 
greatly extend its objects in the cause of humanity if the 
example set by the French society w r as followed — namely, 
the distribution of prizes. 
AN EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY INTO THE EEEECT UPON THE 
MOTHER OE POISONING THE ECETUS. 
By W. S. Savory, Demonstrator of Anatomy and of 
Operative Surgery, at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. 
The structure of the placenta and the character of its cir- 
culation — the close and intimate relation Avhich exists there 
between the foetal and maternal blood — is naturally appealed 
to in explanation of the w r ell-known effects produced in the 
