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rejection of a good pupil; nay, even worse than that, it lias 
more often admitted a bad one. 
A retired teacher of our science, the first of his line, and 
the author of one of the best works we possess on Veteri¬ 
nary Materia Medica and Pharmacy, now takes his placeas 
an examiner. Strength is thus given to the Board, and a 
further guarantee afforded to the profession and the public 
that justice will be done. . We will venture to say that 
had our colleague devoted his talents to the practice merely 
of the profession, he would never have taken office as an 
examiner; but having been a teacher, he has not hesitated 
to accept the honour conferred upon him. 
And now one word for the other newly elected member 
of the Court. He also is a teacher, but in a higher division 
of medical science, being Professor of Anatomy to University 
College. Mr. Ellis is too well known to need any culo- 
gisms from our pen; his name will give weight to the 
diploma, while it will tend also to strengthen the union 
existing between medical and veterinary science. Heartily, 
then, do we congratulate the profession on these results of 
the deliberations of its representative Council. 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA AND INOCULATION. 
The prevalence of pleuro-pneumonia in the Australian 
colonies having induced the respective governments to adopt 
means for the prevention and eradication of the disease, it is 
instructive to know what has been the results of the means 
adopted. The slaughtering of cattle affected, and the 
placing of all animals in those districts where the disease 
was known to exist under the operation of quaran¬ 
tine regulations, were the first measures adopted. It was 
generally believed that such stringent means would speedily 
overcome the disease. It appears, how'ever, that the failure 
was not only signal, but complete. In the colony of Vic¬ 
toria the sum voted by the Legislative Assembly for carry¬ 
ing out the provisions of the Act w 7 as speedily exhausted; 
and apparently nothing further resulted from these 
operations under the Act than to furnish evidence that the 
area of the disease spread rapidly, notwithstanding the 
