STATISTICS. 
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Drs. Schmidt and Smith were appointed as tellers, and the 
following gentlemen proved to have been elected: President, A. 
A. Holcombe; Vice-President, J. C. Corlies; Secretary, C. B. 
Michener; Treasurer, B. A. McLean; Librarian, S. S. Field. 
The Secretary’s bill for minute book, etc., was ordered paid. 
Drs. McLean, Penniman and Corlies were selected to furnish 
essays for the next annual meeting, to be held about March 1st, 
1880. 
On motion, the Association adjourned. 
C. B. Michener, Secretary. 
A. A. Holcombe, President. 
STATISTICS. 
SECOND ANNUAL RETORT OF THE KONIG. TECHNISCHEN DUPUTA_ 
TION FUR DAS VETERINARIANS, WITH REFERENCE TO THE Dis’ 
TRIBUTION OF INFECTIOUS ANIMAL DISEASES IN PRUSSIA FROM 
APRIL 1, 1877, TO MARCH 31, 1878. 
Issued February 1, 1879, as Supplement to Vol. 5, “ Arclnv fur TTissenschaftliclie 
Tlnerheilkunda, Hirschwald, Berlin. 
Anthrax .—From this disease have died TO horses, 1,203 Rattle, 
1,313 sheep, 204 hogs. As in the last report, so in this, little 
dependence can be placed upon the reported number of sheep, on 
account of the difficulty of gaining trustworthy statistics with re¬ 
ference to these animals ; the number dying from this disease is 
suspected to be much larger. With reference to swine, it may be 
interesting to Americans to know that the so-called “ hog cholera h 
is included here in some degree—no special statistics are as yet 
taken for the same in Germany—and that the greater number of 
the 204 swine thus reported as dying of anthrax died of this swine 
pest, thus showing very strikingly the difference between its rav¬ 
ages in Germany and the United States. The numbers with refer¬ 
ence to horses and cattle may, however, be trusted, and give an 
idea of the extension attained by anthrax during the year in ques¬ 
tion. 
