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that for the future each member should receive slips contain- 
ing the report of the whole discussion and not merely his 
own speech. If we once admit the principle of correction it 
seems to me that it is impossible for us to fix a limit. It is 
only under very exceptional circumstances that any difficulty 
will arise, and I really do hope we shall go back to our old 
system. While Professor Spooner’s protest stands on the 
minutes we arc not justified in publishing anything at all, 
but I am sure he will not object to having that entirely left out. 
Professor Spooner : Certainly not. 
The President : Would it be just to the Council and to 
the body politic with which we have to do to publish a report 
mutilated in any way we think proper ? 
Professor Brown : If you once allow alterations to be 
made you cannot fix a limit. I do not refer to any wholesale 
alterations, any entire subversion of a man’s meaning, but if 
a man makes use of an expression which he thinks may 
offend another and do himself injury he has a right to strike 
it out. 
Mr. Fleming : It would not be fair to allow a speaker who 
happened to say “Yes” at this board to alter it to “No.” 
Such a course would at once absolve him from the conse- 
quences of his evil speaking. 
Professor Brown : What a person states at this Council 
renders him as liable to have an action brought against him 
as what he states in a public paper. 
Professor Brown's motion was then agreed to. 
The following letters were then read : 
(1) From Professor Spooner, dated November 9th, 1870, 
acknowledging the receipt of a letter from the Council. 
(2) From Professor Turner, Edinburgh, acknowledging 
with thanks the honour of being elected a member of the 
Scotch section of the Court of Examiners. 
(3) From Professor Bloxam, acknowledging the honour of 
being elected member of the English section of the Court of 
Examiners. 
(4) From Dr. Dunsmere, enclosing account for specimens 
of drugs and chemicals required for the examination tables 
in Scotland. 
(5) From Mr. Graham Michell and Mr. John Sheriff of 
Calcutta, enclosing their examination fees, and stating that 
Colonel Wintel, a magistrate, would preside at their exami- 
nations. 
(6) From Messrs. Wormald and Anderson. 
(7) From Mr. Thomas Paton of the Army Service Corps, 
applying for his diploma granted in 1868. 
