392 VETERINARY INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS AT VIENNA. 
the Royal and Imperial Institute of Veterinary Medicine at 
Vienna. These questions, sixty-three in number, may he 
thus summarised: 
a. Is Russia in a position to take efficacious measures for 
preventing diseased or suspected cattle crossing its frontiers 
into other countries ? 
b. What are these measures, and what are the conditions 
to which the passage of these cattle to the frontier must he 
subordinated ? 
c. If Russia cannot furnish every desirable guarantee, 
must it he necessary to interdict entirely the importation of 
Russian cattle, or will it suffice to submit this importation 
to certain conditions ? 
cl. If the importation of raw animal products derived 
from Russia is permissible, what are the conditions to which 
it should be subjected ? 
e. What are the precautionary measures which ought to he 
observed during the passage of cattle and raw animal pro¬ 
duce imported from Russia ? How must the means of 
transport be disinfected ? 
f. What are the general principles on which proceedings 
should be taken whenever it is necessary to abolish the ravages 
of Cattle Plague beyond Russia ? 
g. To what restrictions ought the traffic in cattle and raw 
animal produce coming from the Roumanian Principalities, 
Servia, and Turkey, to be submitted ? 
The German Empire, France, Switzerland, Russia, Turkey, 
Italy, Servia, the Roumanian Principalities, and Great 
Britain, responded to the invitation by sending delegates to 
the conference. At the installation meeting, the imperial 
and royal minister welcomed, in the name of the Emperor 
of Austria, these representatives ; after which the assembly 
was occupied in arranging its prospective task, when it was 
decided that two committees should be formed, one to examine 
the preventive, the other the repressive measures relative to 
the Cattle Plague. The first of these committees having 
terminated its labours in nine and the second in ten meetings, 
the members met in general assembly on the 2nd of April, 
when the replies furnished by the committee to the various 
questions were enunciated, and the whole matter discussed 
with regard to the principles which ought to serve as a basis 
for an international regulation against the disease. To sum 
up these discussions, it appears that the assembly recog¬ 
nised :— 
a. That in the present state of affairs in Russia, that 
