FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS 
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INFLUENZA IN HORSES. 
From inquiries we have made, and also from our expe¬ 
rience, we can state that there are some indications of the 
influenza, which has been so remarkably prevalent among the 
horses in Canada and the United States, assuming rather 
severe proportions in some parts of our own country. 
During the past month many cases of the disease have come 
under our immediate notice; but in none have the symptoms 
assumed an alarming aspect, and the animals have, conse¬ 
quently, under proper medical treatment, soon become con¬ 
valescent. Nevertheless the occurrence of an increased 
number of cases just now has an importance not otherwise 
attaching to periodic attacks of this equine disease. 
In Sheffield and its neighbourhood very many horses are 
disabled from attacks of influenza. 
Facts and Observations. 
Medical Microscopical Society. —At the preli¬ 
minary meeting of the proposed Medical Microscopical 
Society, held at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, on Friday, 
November 1st, the chairman, W. Morrant Baker, Esq., 
F.R.C.S., &c., made a few introductory remarks, and then 
called upon Mr. J. W. Groves to give the reasons for 
the formation of such a Society, and the objects which were 
had in view for it when formed. Mr. Groves proceeded to 
state these briefly, and then read extracts from some of the 
communications on the subject with which he had been 
favoured by Drs. Carpenter, Burdon-Sanderson, Lionel 
Beale, and Rutherford; Messrs. R. Brudenell Carter, E. Ray 
Lankester, and others. Then followed a brisk discussion, in 
which Drs. Lawson, Heywood Smith, Frank Payne, and 
Woodman, Messrs. Jabez Hogg, T. C. White, B.T. Lowne, 
E. C. Baker, and others took part. It was ultimately 
decided that the Society should exist, and a provisional 
committee, composed of the Honorary Secretaries of the 
Royal Microscopical Society and the Quekett Microscopical 
Club, besides representatives from each of the London 
hospitals, was elected. The next meeting, for sanctioning 
rules, electing officers, &c., will be held in the College 
Hall, St. Bartholomew's Hospstal, on December 6th 
