220 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
The Registrar announced with regret the death of Mr. 
Ernes, late a member of the Council. 
Professor Simonds proposed that a letter of condolence 
should be sent to Mrs. Ernes, expressing the sympathy of 
the Council with her in her great bereavement, and in the 
loss which the Council and the profession had sustained. 
Mr. Silvester seconded the motion, which was unanimously 
agreed to, and a committee consisting of the President and 
Professor Brown was appointed to prepare the letter. 
On the motion of Mr. Greaves, Mr. Morgan, of Liverpool, 
was unanimously elected a member of the Council, in the 
room of the late Mr. Ernes. 
The President. — There is only one more subject, hut per- 
haps it is the most important of all that have come before 
you this evening ; it is with reference to a letter which we 
have received from Professor Gamgee, by which he has 
made the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons a present of 
the skeleton of the celebrated “ Eclipse.” This is a matter 
of so much importance that it would not be consistent, with 
my views at all events, if we dealt with it in the way we 
usually deal with presents which are made to the College. 
I think no member of the Council, nor any other individual, 
except some of you gentlemen who intend to endow the 
College, could confer such an honour upon the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons as the placing within its museum as 
its own property the skeleton of the celebrated “ Eclipse.” 
I therefore propose this subject he deferred for further thought 
and consideration, in order that we may do honour to Mr. 
Gamgee, and acknowledge the great benefit he has conferred 
upon the College, by some means which by-and-bye, per- 
haps, will suggest themselves to some members of the College, 
or some committee that may be formed for the purpose. I 
merely bring it before you now in order that you may know 
that such a step has been taken by our friend Mr. Gamgee, 
and to state my opinion that it is of so much importance 
that I do not think we should do ourselves justice, or do him 
justice, or do the skeleton justice, if we treated it as an 
ordinary affair. I, therefore, propose that the subject be 
postponed till the next meeting 
The Secretary then read the letter from Professor Gamgee 
accompanying the present. 
Mr. Fleming moved, and Mr. Harpley seconded, a resolu- 
tion, “ That the letter from Professor Gamgee be inserted 
in the minutes.” This was unanimously agreed to. 
The proceedings then terminated. 
