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in money, but winners of the Mansion House prizes will have 
the option of receiving gold, silver, and bronze medals instead. 
The prizes are divided as follows :—Horses, 3,300 l.; mules 
and asses, 140/.; cattle, 5,760/.; sheep, 1,745/.; goats, 60/,; 
pigs, 3001. ; hops, 2651.; seed corn, 701.; wool, 135/.; butter, 
86/.; cheese, 360/.; hams and bacon, 180/.; preserved meats, 
4 51 .; American and European fresh meat, 100/. ; perry and 
cider, 80/.; and bees and hives, 24/. All the prizes for live¬ 
stock are open to foreign and colonials as well as British 
owners of animals eligible to compete; but it must be under¬ 
stood that the foreign prizes do not apply to animals from any 
country from which importation is prohibited by any Order 
of the Privy Council. 
Veterinary Inspector, Victoria, Australia.— 
Graham Mitchell to be veterinary surgeon for the inspection 
of stock introduced into Victoria, under the diseases in stock 
regulations of the 6th November.— The Melbourne Government 
Gazette , Dec. 20th, 1878. 
Sentences on Russian Students. —The trial of the 
students of the Kharkoff Veterinary Institute, arrested in 
connection with the recent riots, is concluded. Four of the 
accused have been expelled from the institute, 26 have been 
excluded for one year, 8 enter other institutions, and 18 
have been reprimanded by the council.— St. Petersburg, 
February 4. 
A Sure and Rapid Cure for Hiccough.— Dr. Grellet, 
of Vichy, states that he has never failed in immediately 
relieving simple hiccough by administering a lump of sugar 
soaked with vinegar.— Revue M&l. 
The alleged Antagonistic Action of Atropin and 
Morphin. —Dr. Knapstem, of Bonn, in an article in the 
Berlin Klin. Wochenschrift , No. 47 (quoted in Hager's Phar¬ 
maceutical Centralhalle) , reports a series of experiments under¬ 
taken to test the power alleged to be possessed by morphin 
and atropin to mutually neutralise the effects the one of the 
other. These experiments show that a simultaneous admi¬ 
nistration of morphin with atropin or vice versa did not allow 
larger doses of either poison to be administered to dogs than 
they could support if given singly. It is possible that in 
cases where such immunity would seem to have been observed 
comparatively inert atropin may have been employed.— 
Chemist and Druggist. 
