60 
CENTRAL VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
three favi were a centimetre and a half apart from each other, 
and were already the size of a small lentil; their surface was 
markedly depressed, and they were each formed by a yellow 
dry crust, which slightly cracked and was strongly adherent to 
the skin. Some few hairs traversed these crusts. From their 
dimensions they must certainly have existed for several days, 
but they had escaped observation through the somewhat long 
hair concealing them so completely that even when their 
presence was divulged it required some looking to find 
them. A microscopical examination proved them to be com¬ 
posed of the same elements as the Achorion. 
I showed these favi to M. Bouley, the Inspector-General, 
who readily distinguished their presence and the characters I 
have enumerated in this description. 
The inoculation made on the 14th of June was therefore 
completely successful by the 27th; and if we consider that, 
to judge by their volume, these favi must have been three or 
four days old when discovered, we arrive at the conclusion 
that the time necessary for the spores of the Achorion to ger¬ 
minate and multiply is about ten days. This agrees with my 
preceding experiments. 
Unfortunately, we were not allowed to follow the complete 
evolution of the malady; unknown to me, an experiment of 
another kind was practised upon the dog, and from this it 
succumbed on the 28th of June. 
However, this experiment leaves no doubt as to the trans- 
missibility of the disease from the rabbit to the dog, as well as 
the perfect identity in character of the eruption evoked on the 
skin of that animal with that elicited by our preceding expe¬ 
riments .—(<Journal cle Med. Veterinaire de Lyons , Sept., 1859.) 
(To he continued .) 
CENTRAL VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
(official report.) 
Monthly Meeting, Thursday , Dec. 1th , 1871. 
In the absence of the president, Mr. F. J. Mavor, one of the 
vice-presidents, occupied the chair. 
The secretary read four applications for fellowships, viz.: 
Mr. J. Cheeseman, M.R.C.V.S., Wandsworth; Mr. R. Moseley, 
M.R.C.V.S., Dorset Square; Mr. Chas. Lawrence, M.R.C.V.S., 
Bow; and Mr. Ely East, M.R.C.V.S., Curzon Street, May Fair. 
The election by ballot will take place at the next meeting in January. 
Mr. Wm, Field, jun., laid on the table the brain of a horse 
