§ SIR JERVOISE JERVOISEsaid, he wished to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council of Education, When the results of the experiments in vaccinating sheep, begun in 1862, concluded in 1863, and the Report of which was promised by Easter, 1864, will be laid before Parliament?
MR. H. A. BRUCEreplied, that the experiments with reference to the vaccination of sheep were concluded at Michaelmas last. At the commencement of the present year, the gentlemen who had charge of those experiments were asked for their Report, and they undertook that it should be ready by Easter. They were not officers in his department, and all that they could do was to urge upon them to be expeditious. That Report had not been presented, but he might state the general effect of it was within the knowledge of his (Mr. Bruce's) department. It had been found that sheep were very imperfectly suscep- 1978 tible of vaccination, and that the vaccination so taken afforded no real security against the sheep taking small pox.