TO ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
in comparison with the number exhibited, was reported as not so great 
as in the average of years.” 
TheReport also states “that the new arrangement with the Governors of 
the Royal Veterinary College continues to work satisfactorily, and the 
Council would again call the attention of the members to the valuable 
reports by the Professors of the College on the principal cases which 
have come under their notice. These reports are published in the pro¬ 
ceedings of the Council meetings in the agricultural newspapers.” 
“ The experiments on quarter-evil and allied diseases are still being 
carried on at the Brown Institution; but the director of the Institution 
finds great difficulty in procuring cases at a sufficiently early period of 
the disease. The Council therefore hope that any outbreak of quarter- 
evil or splenic apoplexy may be at once made known by telegraph to 
Dr. Greenfield, the Brown Institution, Wandsworth Road.” 
“ In consequence of the numerous applications which Prof. Simonds 
continues to receive for copies of his paper on sheep-rot, published 
originally in 1862, in the 23rd volume of the Journal , the Council have 
resolved to re-publish it as a pamphlet, considering that after the wet 
season of this year, sheep-rot is likely to be more prevalent in the 
country than usual.” 
ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
SPECIAL MEETING OE THE COUNCIL, HELD NOVEMBER 
21st, 1879. 
Present. —Professors Pritchard and Axe; Messrs. Anderton, Batt, 
Cartwright, Collins, Dray, Fleming, Freeman ; General Sir F. Fitzwy- 
gram ; Messrs. Greaves, Harpley, and the Secretary. 
In the absence of Professor Williams, the President, through domestic 
affliction, Mr. Dray (Senior Vice-President) took the chair. ° 
The Secretary read the notice convening the meeting. 
The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The Secretary stated that letters had been received from the President, 
Professors McCall, Walley, and Messrs. George Morgan and P. Taylor’ 
of Manchester, regretting their inability to attend the meeting. 
The Secretary stated that ‘ Strangeway’s Veterinary Anatomy,’ edited 
by Professor Vaughan, F.L.S., of the New Veterinary College, Edin¬ 
burgh, had been presented to the Library of the College by the author. 
On the motion of Mr. Cartwright , seconded by Mr, Batt , a vote of 
thanks was accorded for the presentation. 
The Secretary read a series of letters between the President, Mr. Loch, 
and Mr. Thomas Moore, in reference to a requisition sent by Mr. Moore’, 
signed by twenty members of the profession, asking the Council to call 
a meeting of the members of the College for the purpose of considering 
the advisability of requesting the Governors of the Royal Veterinarv 
College to revise their system of subscriptions. 
The following is a copy of the requisition : 
To the President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
10, Red Lion Square, W.C. 
Sir,—W e the undersigned Fellows and Members of the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons hereby request you to call a General Meeting 
of Members of the College, as provided by the charter and bye-laws, to 
take into consideration the advisability of requesting the Governors 
