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life of every individual obliged to respire it. The Black Hole of Calcutta 
itself was not fatal to all of the victims who were barbarously confined in it. 
Out of the 146 persons who were shut up in that horrible dungeon, twenty- 
three were taken out alive; but most of the survivors were subsequently 
attacked with putrid fevers.’^ 
It will be seen that we have extracted freely from Mr. 
Condy^s pamphlet. We have done so con amove, because 
there is much in it that is both explanatory and sug¬ 
gestive; and we may hereafter return to its consideration. 
In the mean time we may be permitted to recommend the 
use of Condy^s Disinfecting Fluid, confirmed as its utility has 
been by the highest testimonials; and it will be remembered 
that it is not only a disinfectant, but a deodorizer and 
decolorizer also, its action being dependent on the trans¬ 
ference of oxygen to organic substances undergoing decom¬ 
position or change, by which both air and water are 
rendered impure, and effecting their rapid destruction. 
HOYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
QUARTERLY MEETING OE COUNCIL, held January 30, 1863. 
Present. —The President, Professor Spooner, Messrs. 
Barrow, Broad, Ellis, Ernes, Harpley, Hunt, Jex, 
Lawson, Mavor, Moon, Robinson, Silvester, Varnell, 
Wilkinson, and the Secretary. 
The President in the Chair. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
The Secretary read a letter received from the Foreign 
Office, and also laid on the table four copies of a Report 
of the Veterinary Institution of Saxony, which had been 
transmitted from the Foreign Office for presentation to the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. He also laid on the 
table a presentation copy of Messrs. Brande and TayloFs 
new w’ork on Chemistry for the Library of the College. 
The thanks of the Council were ordered to be given for 
these presentations. 
A letter was read from Mr. Thomas Flickman, late Veterinary 
Surgeon in the army, requesting that he might be furnished 
with a ne\v diploma, or a certificate of his having passed his 
examination, he having lost his original diploma while on 
