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ence to. his interview with the Governor, that His Excel- 
lency had appointed Messrs. B. Howell Jones and J. J. 
Quelch to be respectively Commissioner and Secretary 
to represent the colony at the World's Columbian Expo- 
sition, and that the Government would sanction the 
payment of their expenses from the funds placed at the 
Society's disposal for Exposition purposes. 
The Secretary read a letter from the Royal Veteri- 
nary College, London, in reply to a communication from 
the Society in regard to the cattle disease on the East 
Coast. Professor Macqueen had examined the slide of 
blood of one of the diseased animals which had been 
forwarded by the Society, and found it to contain a num- 
ber of bacilli resembling those of anthrax, but could not 
give a definite opinion as to the nature of the disease 
without making some inoculations. 
The Secretary stated that the letter had already been 
shown to the Commission which had been appointed 
by the Government to deal with the matter, and Mr. 
Daly remarked that the Commission was now closed and 
had sent in its report. 
Mr. Darnell Davis thought that something more than 
a microscopic slide should have been sent so as to have 
obtained a definite report. Mr. Quelch said the reply 
was as satisfactory as could be obtained, confirming the 
opinion of those who had investigated the disease in the 
Colony. 
The Secretary read a letter from Mr. R. S. Mitchell, 
Calcutta, advising the shipment of twenty-one samples 
of paddy rice per ship Lena. The thanks of the Society 
were accorded to Mr. Mitchell, and the manner of dis- 
posing of the samples left to the Agricultural Committee. 
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