162 HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY’S CERTIFICATES. 
trabecular spaces of the spleen. The straw-coloured parts 
seem as if the result of extravasation some short time before, 
but the red parts are evidently quite recent and serve to 
illustrate the true nature of the mass. This seems to 
account for the fact that the appended portion of spleen is 
quite healthy, which also proves the absence of lymphadeno- 
matous or tuberculous conditions. The submaxillary abscess 
is doubtless attributed to its true cause. The simple nature 
of the tumour also accounts for the general health of the 
animal, though we cannot help suspecting she had felt 
internal disorder without exhibiting any appreciable sym¬ 
ptoms. With regard to Mr. Leeney’s diagnosis, we think it 
as exact as most of us would be able to give under the cir¬ 
cumstances. The abdominal tumour was present and such 
in old bitches are generally ovarian, besides which diseased 
conditions of the spleen are few and far between. We 
believe Mr. Leeney, therefore, has afforded us a specimen of 
the highest pathological interest. 
NOTE ON THE RECENT ADMISSION OF MEM¬ 
BERS HOLDING THE HIGHLAND AND AGRI¬ 
CULTURAL SOCIETY'S CERTIFICATE. 
Royal Veterinary College. 
Gentlemen, —Mr. McGillivray, of Banff, in the February 
number of the Veterinary Journal , is so good as to draw 
attention to the fact that, in my recent paper on “ Veteri¬ 
nary Science in America," I have not acknowledged to 
Messrs. J. A. Going and E. P. Lyman their recent qualifi¬ 
cation of M.R.C.V.S. Will you allow me through your 
pages to express my apologies to those gentlemen, and to 
explain to them that my paper was contributed to your 
December number, but excluded for want of space. In that 
number we received the first official announcement that 
they have become members of the Royal College of Veteri¬ 
nary Surgeons. By inserting this you will oblige. 
Yours sincerely, 
John Henry Steel. 
