G70 WEST OF SCOTLAND VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The President next proposed and Mr. Prentice seconded, 
“That Professor Walley be elected an honorary member of the 
Association.” Proposal unanimously agreed to. 
The Professor returned thanks, and remarked that he felt proud 
in being elected an honorary member of such a ^flourishing 
Association as this, and that he would endeavour to attend its 
meetings regularly, and do his best to promote its welfare. 
Proposed by the President, and seconded by Professor For die , 
“That Mr. William Anderson, jun., be elected a member. 
Elected unanimously. 
The essayist, Mr. Walley, was then called on by the President 
to read his paper on “ Tuberculosis.” Previously, however, 
some interesting morbid specimens, illustrative of the subject of 
the essay, were laid before the meeting. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen,— -The subject which I am 
about to bring before you this evening is one of immense im¬ 
portance, not only to veterinary surgeons, but to the public 
generally; to the veterinary surgeon, because no subject offers 
more food for earnest thought, or more ground for scientific 
research; to the public, because it has a very close connection 
with the great social problem of providing our masses with a 
sufficiency of nourishing and healthy food. To the stockbreeder 
and agriculturist it is even of greater import, as by the spread of 
such a disease—and it is undoubtedly on the increase—his best 
hopes are rendered fallacious, and his profits materially curtailed. 
To the causes of the spread of the disease I shall have to refer 
hereafter. 
In proof, Mr. President and Gentlemen, of my assertion that 
the disease of tuberculosis has of late years greatly increased, I 
will call your attention to a remarkable passage in the ‘Veteri¬ 
nary Becord' for January, 1847, p. 29, in which the following 
note by the editors (in commenting on a case of tuberculosis, the 
particulars of which were furnished to them by Mr. W. Cox, of 
Ashbourne) will be found :—“ The tumours attached to the 
viscera of the thorax of a cow are similar to some we have 
occasionally met with. 
“ On this subject our English veterinary authors are silent, 
and we believe the above to be the only case of the kind 
recorded.” 
A quarter of a century has elapsed since these lines were 
penned, and one only of the three who were responsible for them 
now remains to bear witness to the vast strides that have been 
made, during that period of time, in our knowledge of tubercle 
and the disease to which it gives rise. 
