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The rest of the time was occupied in forming the com¬ 
mittee as suggested by Mr. Fleming, and the following 
gentlemen were chosen : Messrs. Barker, Coleman, Gerrard, 
Hunting, Rowe, Sheather, R. Ward, Rowe, and the Hon. Sec. 
Thomas Moore, 
Hon. Sec. 
[We give insertion to the preceding communication at 
the special request of Mr. Moore. Standing in the rela¬ 
tionship which we do to the Royal Veterinary College, 
our readers will not expect that we should now give any 
opinion of the course which is being taken by a section of 
the profession. We may, however, express our belief 
that the Governors of the College will put no impedi¬ 
ment in the way of those who are interested in continuing 
this discussion.— Eds.] 
Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE-PLAGUE. 
In the Russian Empire cattle-plague is reported to have 
existed during this month in the Governments of Bessarabia, 
Volhynia, Ekaterinoslav, Podolia, Taurida, Kherson, and 
Petrokoff. The disease is also reported to have appeared 
in Russian-Poland, in the neighbourhood of Lubtenitz, on 
the Silesian Frontier of Germany. In Austria cattle-plague 
has broken out in the Government Districts of Littai and 
Stangenplane, in Carniola ; it is also said to have existed in 
two or three villages near Ragusa, in Dalmatia. 
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
It will be seen by the Gazette return, which we publish for 
the week ending October 11th, that no outbreak of foot-and- 
mouth disease was reported to have occurred during the week 
in England and Wales. One outbreak was reported from Scot¬ 
land, but after inquiry we have good reason to believe that the 
animal which died and the one which is entered as remaining 
diseased were not the subjects of foot-and-mouth disease, so 
we may say that no outbreak of the affection was known to 
have happened in that week. This is a great improvement 
upon our last notice of the foot-and-mouth disease in our 
September number, when we had to record a somewhat 
alarming increase in the rate of prevalence of the affection, 
which called for specially severe legislative measures. 
