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of this insect. In view of recent discoveries concerning the 
transmission of various diseases to domestic animals by their 
external parasites, the study of these parasites, hitherto too 
much neglected, has become of extreme importance, and the 
Zoologist considered it advisable to comply with a request 
received from the Government Entomologist of India to 
examine a large number of ticks collected from cattle, sheep, 
horses, and dogs from various parts of that country with a 
view to their identification. The study of this collection, 
and of very many ticks from various other parts of the 
world, has occupied much time during the past summer. 
44. The President and other Members of the Council 
joined the Deputation organised by the Central and Associated 
Chambers of Agriculture, who waited upon the President of 
the Board of Agriculture on March 6, 1906, for the purpose 
of urging the necessity of keeping the present restrictions in 
force with regard to the importation of live cattle from abroad. 
Mr. Cornwallis expressed the views of the Society in support 
of the important object of the Deputation ; and his representa- 
tions met with a sympathetic reply from the President of the 
Board of Agriculture, and may be presumed to have had some 
influence with the Government. The fact that the restrictions 
have been allowed to remain in force is a matter of satisfaction 
to agriculturists in general. 
45. During the period which has elapsed since the date of 
the last Report, the scheduled contagious diseases of animals, 
with one exception, viz., sheep scab, have not been materially 
reduced in prevalence. The number of cases of anthrax and 
glanders reported have been nearly up to the average of the 
preceding twelve months, and the outbreaks of swine fever 
have become more frequent since the beginning of the year. 
Throughout the whole of last year there was a marked reduc- 
tion in the prevalence of sheep scab as indicated by the number 
of outbreaks reported, and the decline which was then begun 
continues up to the present time. 
46. As the result of this year’s examination of students of 
the Royal Veterinary College in Cattle Pathology, including 
the diseases of Cattle, Sheep and Pigs, Mr. A. W. Noel Pillers, 
of the Royal Veterinary College, Camden Town, N.W., has 
been awarded the Society’s silver medal, and Mr. A. Leslie 
Sheather, of 42 Compayne Gardens, Hampstead, N.W., the 
bronze medal. 
47. An Agricultural Education Exhibition on similar 
lines to that arranged at Park Royal was organised in con- 
nection with this year’s Show at Derby, exhibits being sent 
by the Lawes Agricultural Trust, the Cambridge University 
Agricultural Department, the Royal Agricultural College, 
