CORRESPONDENCE. 
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MEMBERS PRESENT: 
Robert Wood, Lowell, Mass. 
J. H. Stickney, Boston, “ 
Alexander Lockliart, New York. 
James L. Robertson, “ 
Charles P. Lyman, Springfield, Mass. 
It was voted that the appointment of Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant of 
South Framingham be asked of the president as U. S. Commissioners 
of Agriculture. 
2d. That a memorial to this effect be presented to the President 
of the United States for his kind consideration. 
3d. That the memorial as read to the meeting be accepted, 
signed, sealed and forwarded. 
4th. That the meeting be adjourned. 
C. P. Lyman, Cor. Sec’y. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
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VARIOLA EQUINA—HORSE POX. 
By W. Boyden, V. S. Boston. 
On the 7th of March last, I was called professionally to the stock 
farm of Messrs. Moulton Bros., West Randolph, Vermont, a distemper 
having broken out among their fine stock of young horses. The 
history given me of it was as follows: “In the early part of February 
they had to buy hay, and attached to one of the loads hauled into their 
yard was a horse suffering from a disease apparently of a catarhal 
nature. A few days after the visit of this animal the yearlings began 
to show symptoms of a kind of distemper characterized by discharge 
from the nostrils and in some cases sore throat; but little notice was 
taken of it except to use a little more care in protecting them from 
inclement weather. About the end of February and beginning of 
March, the two year olds began to show similar symptoms, in some 
cases of a much more complicated and alarming nature. The first 
animal shown me on my arrival at their farm was a magnificent look¬ 
ing Hamiltonian two year old entire colt, he had been ailing over a 
