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THE VETERINARIAN, JANUARY 1, 1879. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.—C icbbo. 
THE PROPOSED INTRODUCTION OF FOREIGN ANIMALS 
AT THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL 
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
It has been understood for some time past by the pro¬ 
moters of the International Exhibition, which is to be held 
next year under the auspices of the Royal Agricultural 
Society, that selected specimens of foreign animals should, if 
nothing occurred to prevent it, form a feature of the show. 
With this object the Council of the Society applied to the 
Privy Council to ascertain, as far as possible, what conditions 
would be imposed on the animals which the foreign exhibitors 
might choose to send to us. In response to the application 
the Lord President of the Privy Council attended as a mem¬ 
ber of the Council of the Society at the meeting on Wed¬ 
nesday, December 11th, and made some remarks on the 
action which had been taken by the Society. In the course 
of his observations his Grace said “ that when he received a 
copy of the proposed prize list he was struck with the incon¬ 
sistency of his colleagues on the Council and in the Short¬ 
horn Society in issuing a prize sheet in which was included 
a list of prizes for a number of animals that were invited to 
come from foreign countries. Without wishing to say any¬ 
thing personal to his colleagues, he thought they would all 
bear him out when he said that since he had the honour of 
being Lord President of the Council they had continually 
requested him to legislate for the prohibition of the importa¬ 
tion of foreign animals. The views entertained by the Royal 
Agricultural Society and by the Shorthorn Society were 
these:—That to get rid of those diseases which, as they 
stated—and he thought perfectly rightly and justly—had 
affected so prejudicially their interests in this country, it 
would be necessary to pass a law enacting that all foreign 
unimals should be slaughtered upon the other side of the 
