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whole thing may be suppressed, if the Council thinks proper, 
hut I could not take upon myself to send it for publication 
in a garbled state. 
Professor Spooner : If any erasures I made interfered with 
the sense of the observations made by other gentlemen, 
surely you or the Secretary should have communicated with 
me, anti you know perfectly well that I should have been 
very happy to make any corrections which I considered 
necessary. I think you have pursued a most improper, in- 
judicious, unwiae course. 
The Secretary then read the shorthand writer’s report of 
the last meeting, and afterwards pointed out the erasures 
which had been made by Professor Spooner. 
The President: The erasures which I considered objection- 
able were those alluding to Professor Gamgee and to the 
Scotch schools. Mr. Fleming and myself replied to those 
allusions, and if Professor Spooner’s remarks are erased Mr. 
Fleming’s and mine would be utterly unintelligible. 
Professor Spooner said his object in making the erasures 
was to avoid having anything published which might be cal- 
culated to excite unpleasant feelings. 
The President : Gentlemen, I wish to draw attention to the 
expression presumption,” which has been applied to the gen- 
tleman who took this step. I was the person who took it in 
my capacity as President of this College. I beg you to remark 
that I said from the first that I took it upon myself, after 
consulting other members of the Council. Gentlemen, if you 
do not support me, and demand an apology, I shall with much 
regret take the liberty of resigning my post after the business 
of this evening is over. 
Mr. Fleming said the desirability or otherwise of publishing 
the reports had been considered at a previous meeting, when the 
Council were unanimous that the reports should be published 
in extenso, in order to give the profession an idea of what was 
done. Such a publication would exercise a most salutary 
effect, and prevent remarks being made which must prove 
offensive. 
Mr. Naylor proposed that the report should be published 
as it came from the pen of the shorthand writer. 
Professor Spooner : If it is proposed to publish the short- 
hand writer’s report without my amendments, I protest 
against anything I said being published at all, and I shall 
hold the parties publishing it responsible for anything that 
comes out of it. 
Professor Brown : As I am the only representative of the 
Veterinarian present, I must say that I cannot undertake 
