ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 199 
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“ ‘ E.—Sample of earth got from same place as that used for 
covering grains, but washed.’ 
“ On the 21st ult. Professor Simonds handed to me four 
stomachs of a cow. 
“ The materials contained in each of the parcels and the cow’s 
stomachs were separately submitted to chemical analysis, when 
I detected a considerable quantity of lead in the parcel marked 
‘ E,’ but this metal could not be discovered in either of the other 
parcels. 
“ Large quantities of lead were likewise found by analysis in 
the cow’s stomachs; in fact, fragments of the supposed poison 
were picked out of the cells of the reticulum (second stomach). 
"When these fragments, as well as others of a similar appearance 
detected in parcel ‘E,’ were analysed, they were in both instances 
found to consist of galena, which is chemically a native sulphide 
of lead. 
“ The sample of linseed-cake was not examined, as I thought 
that in all probability the results of its analysis would not throw 
any light on the cause of the death of Mr. Wood’s animals.—I am, 
sir, your obedient servant, 
“ Richard V. Tuson, E.I.C., E.C.S., 
“ Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology in the 
“ Royal Veterinary College. 
“ To the Secretary Royal Agricultural Society, 
“ Hanover Square.” 
The report of the Examiners appointed to test the qualifications 
of the students competing for the Society’s veterinary medals and 
prizes had been received, and the Committee recommended that 
the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons be asked 
to draw up a modified scheme for the consideration of the Council 
of the Society at their next meeting. 
The Committee also recommended that a communication be 
made from this Council to the Privy Council, urging upon the 
G-overnment the importance of immediately placing the United 
States of America under the provisions of the Act which provides 
for the slaughter of foreign animals at the place of landing. 
The Hon. W. Bgerton added, with reference to the last para¬ 
graph of the Committee’s report, that the evidence before the 
public had led the Committee to recommend that the United 
States should be placed under the provisions of the Act of 1878 
relating to slaughter at the port of landing. It was perfectly 
true that in the vessel which brought over the animals suffering 
from pleuro-pneumonia there were Canadian animals, but it was 
believed that in future Canadian animals would be shipped from 
ports within the Dominion, probably Halifax, instead of Port¬ 
land, and the Committee had therefore not included Canada in 
their recommendation. 
Mr. Bent said that he would not formally move the rejection of 
the last clause of the report, but would merely express his regret 
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