828 SCOTTISH MET HO POL I TAN VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
G. Gartside Mayor, “ HerniseW. F. Smith, “ Breeds and Manage¬ 
ment of Cart Horses;” Titus Littler, “ Equine Parasitism ;” C. H. 
Golledge, for liis essay on “Foot-root;” J. Bainbridge, ‘‘Navicular 
Arthritis” (placed in the order of the Committee Report). 
The following gentlemen have received 
Fellowship Certificates .—Messrs. Gregory, for his essay on “ Tetanus ;” 
Blakeway, “ Ophthalmia.” 
The following gentlemen have received the thanks of the Council of' 
tlie Association for presentations :—Messrs. Nicholson Almond; W. H. 
Beach. 
The following gentlemen have received the thanks of the Members 
for Specimens forwarded for inspection at the General Meetings :—The 
President; Captain Russell, of Grantham, M.R.C.Y.S.; Messrs. C. Hed- 
worth Golledge; Slipper and Shipley, of Yarmouth, M.R.C.V.S. ; Harry 
Talbott; Blakeway; Lepper ; Penhale; Hunting; T. Fletcher; W. F. 
Smith; Cattrall, M.R.C.Y.S.; E. M. Davy, M.R.C.Y.S.; W. Almond; 
J. H. Steel, M.R.C.Y.S. John Hy. Steel, 
Secretary. 
THE SCOTTISH METROPOLITAN VETERINARY 
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The Quarterly Meeting of this Association was held in the London 
Hotel, Edinburgh, on Wednesday, the 24th September. The President, 
Mr. Rutherford, Edinburgh, occupied the chair, and there was a large 
attendance of members. 
The Chairman remarked that the meeting should express its great 
satisfaction at the arrangement which had been come to with the Highland 
and Agricultural Society, according to which members now required to 
undergo only one examination. It was desirable to express their sense 
of the great benefits which the profession had derived from the interest 
which the Highland Society had taken in them, both as a body and indi¬ 
vidually. He thought the maintenance of two examining bodies was 
anomalous, and that the interests of the profession would be best served 
by the amalgamation which had been brought about, and the holding of 
one examination by one examining body. He moved that the society 
express its gratification at the arrangement. 
The motion was seconded by Mr. Waugh Stirling , and on being put to 
the meeting was carried unanimously. 
Mr. Reid, F.S., Inspector, Leith, then read the following paper on the 
“INOCULATION OF CATTLE FOR PLEURO-PNEUMONIA.” 
“More than thirty years have, elapsed since pleuro-pneumonia was 
introduced into this country, and everything which the veterinary pro¬ 
fession could devise has been tried to. effect a cure, but without a suc¬ 
cessful result. So violently did the disease rage, and so futile were the 
efforts made to arrest its progress, that it became a very serious matter 
to the feeder and breeder of cattle. A representation of their grievances 
was laid before the legislature, and after taking the advice of prominent 
members of our profession, and practical agriculturists, an Act was 
passed which had for its object the expulsion of this scourge from our 
shores. Act succeeded Act, and Order after Order was issued from the 
