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student is secured. On looking back to the period when the 
education of the pupils was extended so as to embrace the 
maladies of all the animals of the farm, now about twenty 
years since, the governors find that no less than 902 students 
liave subsequently entered the College. These have all 
received instruction on Cattle Pathology, and although some 
have not passed their examination, and entered on the legiti¬ 
mate practice of the profession as veterinary surgeons, 638 of 
this number have passed their examinations and graduated 
as members of the profession. In addition to the 902 former 
students, there are now in daily attendance at the lectures 
112, who will in due course also present themselves before 
the Court of Examiners for the diploma of the College. These 
figures afford some proof of the extent to which the object, 
long since agreed upon by the two societies, has been, and is 
in course of being, effected. The country is thus regularly 
supplied with veterinary surgeons, whose scientific knowledge 
is not, as it was wont to be, restricted to the maladies of the 
horse. The advantages derived by the agricultural com¬ 
munity and the public from this system of education, the 
governors cannot but believe to be of the greatest value. 
A limited number only of diseased cattle has been received 
at the College for treatment from the members of the Society 
during the year ; compared, nevertheless, with some former 
periods, the number has been greater. Among the cases, 
there are none which call for any especial mention, as 
being unusual or rare. They have, however, offered suf¬ 
ficient variety to be of great use to the pupils, by enabling 
their teacher to explain and compare the symptoms and the 
progress of the more prevalent affections with the allied 
diseases of the horse. If means can be adopted to increase 
the supply of bovine patients, the governors would be much 
gratified, and most willingly carry out any practical measures 
for the accomplishment of so desirable an object. 
The governors may here allude to an experiment which has 
been undertaken at the request of the Eoyal Agricultural 
Society, for the purpose of testing the value of a supposed 
remedy for rot in sheep, which had emanated from a French 
veterinary surgeon. Six of the sheep, being a moiety of the 
number which were made the subjects of the experiment, 
were kept for many weeks in the infirmary, and every care 
bestowed upon them necessary^or the attainment of a correct 
conclusion as to the value of the remedy. The other six 
sheep w r ere taken to Mr. Simonds 5 farm, there to be treated 
under opposite circumstances of food and location. The 
result of the experiment may be said to be negative, in so far 
as establishing the value of this presumed remedy for rot, but 
