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VACCINATION OP SHEEP. 
Much—very much—more might be said with reference to 
the course adopted by the late Mr. Overman in supporting 
Mr. Wells's extraordinary proceedings in the matter of the 
vaccination of sheep. I refrain, however, from adding to the 
length of this letter by further referring to it. I am desirous, 
above all things, while exposing an error, not to say one 
word which should offend those now most interested in the 
question. I can, therefore, but regret that Mr. H. Overman's 
enthusiasm should have carried him beyond the bounds of 
discretion, in attacking the statements made in my lecture. 
I am, Sir, truly yours, 
James B. Simonds. 
Royal Veterinary College ; 
Jiily 14, 1864. 
To the Editor of the Marie Lane Express. 
Sir, —To go into all the minutiae of Professor Simonds' 
letter would take up more of my time than I care to give 
to the subject. I gave the plain facts in my last, in denial 
of statements made relative to my father, which was all I 
wished. 
I now beg to state, in answer to Mr. Simonds' “ challenge," 
that the sheep were vaccinated, not from Mr. Wells's so-called 
“ sherry-coloured fluid," but from lymph taken from those 
sheep (which, by-the-bye, were many more than twelve), 
and which Mr. Simonds acknowledges were vaccinated with 
points. 
“Much, very much," may indeed be said in reference to 
the vaccination of the West Norfolk sheep. Vaccination 
may prove wrong; but all that Professor Simonds can say 
will never alter the truth of the case, or persuade the West 
Norfolk farmers to pursue his system of inoculation, about 
which he has shown so much “ enthusiasm" and so little 
“ discretion." 
I am, &c., 
Henry Overman. 
Weasenham, Rougham, Norfolk ; 
July 21, 1864. 
To the Editor of the Marie Lane Express. 
Sir, —In consequence of my absence from town I have 
only just become acquainted with the circumstance that 
Mr. Henry Overman has published a rejoinder, in your paper 
of the 25th ult., to my reply to his former letter. 
