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it has nevertheless afforded additional means of imparting 
information of a practical nature to the students. A full 
description of this experiment has been recently com¬ 
municated by Professor Simonds to the Council. It is, 
therefore,, unnecessary that the governors should recapitulate 
the details. 
The governors have learnt with much satisfaction that the 
alteration which was made by the Council in the veterinary 
privileges of the members of the Royal Agricultural Society, 
a few r months since, is likely to work exceedingly well for 
both institutions; first, by enabling the members to obtain 
the immediate services, and at a small cost, of the Professor 
of Cattle Pathology; and secondly, by furnishing him with 
illustrations of disease for subsequent use in the lecture room. 
Professor Simonds has already made several visits into the 
country, and, during not a few of these, by investigating the 
causes of the disease on the spot, has succeeded in arresting 
its progress. Many isolated cases of disease have also been 
successfully treated. These circumstances convey an assurance 
to the governors that great and lasting benefits will arise from 
the course, in this respect, which has been recommended by 
the Council, and to which the governors have had much 
pleasure in giving effect. 
Under this head, the governors cannot refrain from alluding 
to the attendance of Professor Spooner, jointly with Pro¬ 
fessor Simonds, as the Society's Veterinary Inspectors at the 
Leeds Meeting. The benefit of these inspections, in keeping 
in check the proceedings of some exhibitors who have substi¬ 
tuted animals of greater age than set forth in their certi¬ 
ficates, and also in preventing the spread of hereditary diseases 
among our best and most valuable breeds of horses and cattle, 
can scarcely be over-estimated. Most willingly have the 
governors, through their officers, lent their co-operation in 
support of the Society's laudable object, and they trust to 
have the satisfaction of being informed that the professors 
will be similarly engaged at the approaching International 
Meeting in the metropolis. The privilege of allowing two of 
the students of the College to attend each inspector, and to 
render him assistance in the performance of his duties, is one 
also which the governors highly estimate, since it tends 
directly to promote a spirit of laudable emulation among the 
students. 
Many kindred subjects might be alluded to, and much 
added to this report, both in proof of the advantages derived 
from the united action of the Royal Veterinary College and 
Royal Agricultural Society, in extending the application of 
the veterinary art to the every-day requirements of the prac- 
