INDEX. 941 
The comparative merits of animal vaccination, and arm-to-arm vaccination, 
588 
Contagious Diseases Act, 317 
(Animals) Act, 1869 (official returns), 26, 90 
detection of prussic acid, 28 
effect of rainfall on the prevalence of parasitic diseases, 807 
Eitzwygram prize award, 611 
prizes, 150, 544 
Glasgow Veterinary College, 371 
Distribution of prizes, 614 
Inaugural address by Prof. Knox, 898 
Opening of the session, 898 
horse disease of South Africa, 426 
influence of the wet season on the condition of stock, 732 
International Agricultural Exhibition in London, 180 
life of a plant, 432 
National Veterinary Benevolent and Mutual Defence Society, 59, 313 
President’s inaugural address, 313 
Nestorian’s cargo, 465 
new order of Council relating to “ swine fever,” 646 
operation of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act in Ireland, 688 
present status of the profession, 174 
prevention of parturient apoplexy, 19 
principles of botany, 12, 77, 164, 246, 486 
proposed Dick memorial, 347 
introduction of foreign animals at the International Exhibition 
of the Royal Agricultural Society, 29 
recent deaths of children from glanders, 463 
fatality among in-lamb ewes, 336 
sheep losses in the West Highlands, 605 
typhoid fever of swine order of 1878, 61 
treatment of sandcrack, 837 
use of digitalis, 28 
ecraseur, 838 
observations on, 872 
iodoform, 731 
veterinary profession v. the Royal Veterinary College, 794 
Vivisection Act, 465 
Bill, 433 
Theories ? modern chemico-physical, is life to be explained by, 41 
Theory of the action of bacteria in anthrax, 654 
Thomas, Griffith, his obituary, 400 
“T. H. P.,” letter from, on supposed laryngeal disease, 636 
Threatened introduction of cattle plague into Natal, 873 
Three-year-old ox, lung parasites in a, 870 
Tinea tonsurans, inoculability of, on the lower animals, 654 
Torsion, intestinal, special forms of, and diaplacement of the colon in the 
horse, particularly in reference to the use of trocar and canula in tym¬ 
pany, 830 
Traces of hydrocyanic acid, detection of, 45 
prussic acid, detection of, 83 
Trade, American cattle, 318 
Transfusion of blood, intravenous injection of milk as a substitute for, 43 
Transmission of pleuro-pneumonia by mediate contagion and inoculation, 
574 
Transit losses, American importation, 730 
Transport of eattle, 464 
