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benefit of agriculturists and stockbreeders, but rather to 
testify to the rare activity of the profession in the matter 
before us. I must also so far take you into my confidence 
as to admit that yet another motive remains behind. It is 
this. I earnestly hope to be able to show that the 
value of this institution to the veterinary profession, and 
through the profession to the public, is not to be measured 
alone and merely by the lecturing, the general teaching, 
and clinical work actually done within the walls of the 
college itself. 
In reference to inquiries made in connection with the 
parasites of cattle and sheep, I have been favoured with 
more or less instructive communications or specimens, usually 
both, from Professor Walley, of Edinburgh; from Mr. 
William Jackson, Veterinary Inspector at Sheffield; Mr. 
John Bryce, of Stirling; Mr. L. Butters, of Norwich; Mr. 
Awde, of Winston, near Darlington; Mr. George Rugg, of 
Sittingbourne (through Professor Simonds) ; Mr. Shipley, 
of Yarmouth ; Messrs. Taylor and Jarvis, of Burwash, near 
Hawkhurst; Mr. J. E. Cross, of Mardol, near Shrewsbury ; 
Mr. Blakeway, of Stourbridge, Worcester (through his son) ; 
Mr. Streacey, of Dublin; Mr. Page Wallace, of Cambridge, 
and Mr. Frederick Adsetts, of Derby. Other communica¬ 
tions specially referring to the parasitic bronchitis of calves 
and sheep were received from Messrs. Farrow, of Durham; 
from Mr. Chambers (assisting Mr. Blunsom), of Cirencester ; 
from Mr. Charles Gray, of Kibworth, near Leicester; from 
Mr. A. W. Leany, of Tisbury, near Salisbury; from Messrs. 
Horsley, of West Horsley, in Surrey; and from Mr. J. P. E. 
Smith (through Professor Flower, of the Royal College of 
Surgeons, and the late Dr. Gray, of the British Museum). 
On the general subject of “ lamb disease ” I have also been 
favoured by a communication from Mr. J. T. Duncan. V.S., 
of Godwich, Canada, requesting special explanation respect¬ 
ing my published statements as to the etiology of the 
various disorders thus named, or rather misnamed. In this 
connection I may also add that I have received contributions 
and information from several members of the medical pro¬ 
fession, both at home and abroad. Amongst these I may 
particularise the names of Dr. Bree, of Colchester; Mr. 
Ellis, of Gloucester; Dr. Bancroft, of Brisbane; and the 
lamented Dr. Rowe, of Victoria, to whose communications 
I have so frequently referred in published papers. 
Of late years a remarkable degree of attention has been 
paid to the study of canine disease, many of which, hitherto 
obscure as to their cause, turn out to be due to parasites, 
