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problem:—“ To discover a method by which the vaccine conta- 
gium may be cultivated apart from the animal body, in some 
medium or media not otherwise zymotic, the method to be such 
that the contagium may by means of it be multiplied to an indefi¬ 
nite extent in successive generations, and that the product after 
any number of such generations shall (so far as can within the 
time be tested) prove itself of identical potency with standard 
vaccine lymph.” The prize is open to universal competition, . 
British and foreign. Competitors for the prize must submit their 
respective treatises on or before the 31st of December, 1886, and 
the award will be made as soon afterwards as the circumstances 
of the competition shall permit, not later than the month of May, 
1887. In relation to the discovery prize, as in relation to other 
parts of the Company’s scheme in aid of sanitary science, the 
Court acts with the advice of a scientific committee, which at 
present consists of the following members:—John Simons, C.B., 
F.R.S., John Tyndall, F.R.S., John Burdon Sanderson, M.D., 
F.R.S., and George Buchanan, M.D., F.R.S. All communica¬ 
tions on the subject are to be addressed to the clerk of the 
Grocers’ Company, Grocers’ Hall, London, E.C. The Grocers’ 
Company have issued a circular giving the conditions of the can¬ 
didature and award.— Veterinary Journal (London). 
An Arraignment of American Veterinary Surgeons.—A 
person who called himself a veterinary surgeon read a paper re¬ 
cently before the New York Farmers’ Club, in the Cooper Insti¬ 
tute, on the diseases of cattle and their treatment by veterinary 
doctors, whose methods he condemned. There were, he said, on 
the farms of the United States in June, 1882, 10,357,981 horses, 
valued at $1,035,798,100 ; 1,812,932 mules, valued at $181,293,- 
200;' 993,970 oxen, valued at $49,698,500; 12,443,593 milch 
cows, valued at $321,089,725 ; 22,488,590 other cattle, valued at 
$562,214,750; 35,191,156 sheep, valued at $527,867,340, and 
47,683,951 swine, worth $476,839,510, making a grand total of 
the value of dumb animals on farms in the country. $3,154,821,- 
125. This estimate, however, the lecturer considered by far too 
low, and he felt certain that the value of dumb animals in the 
