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ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
The report of the House Committee was adopted. 
The President proposed that a letter, engrossed on vellum, 
should be presented to Professor Gamgee, at the annual 
meeting, thanking him for his presentation to the College of 
the skeleton of “ Eclipse.” 
Mr. Hunt approved of the President’s proposal. He also 
thought a tablet should be placed on the case containing 
the skeleton, stating from whom the gift had been 
received. 
Professor Simonds asked if Professor Gamgee had sent 
the proofs (which in his letter he said he was ready to give) 
that the skeleton was really that of “ Eclipse.” 
The President : No, we have been waiting to see what the 
Council would recommend. 
Professor Simonds : But supposing it is the skeleton of 
some other animal. 
The President said he had not the least doubt that the 
skeleton was the identical one that Bracy Clark formerly 
possessed. 
Professor Simonds thought it was really premature to 
accord a vote of thanks for that which the Council had no 
identification of. He had frequently been in Bracy Clark’s 
room and seen a number of bones lying on the floor, which 
Bracy Clark used to say were the bones of “ Eclipse,” adding 
that no hands of a common kind should ever touch them. 
He should therefore like to know who articulated the 
skeleton. 
Mr. Broad said he had seen the bones many times before 
they were put together, and he was convinced that the 
skeleton was composed of the bones which Bracy Clark had. 
He believed he himself saw a portion of it undergoing 
articulation. 
Professor Simonds thought Mr. Wallis of Staines could 
throw considerable light on the matter, for he was almost a 
house pupil of Bracy Clark’s. 
Professor Brown said he had not the slightest reason to 
doubt that the skeleton was what it was represented to be, 
but such a body as the Council of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons ought to regard its vote of thanks as 
the highest recognition it could possibly give to a donor. 
He feared that the proposed departure from the usual course 
would simply make the Council appear ridiculous. 
Mr. Hunt said the skeleton of <f Eclipse ” had a specific 
value beyond its mere commercial value, for it was something 
that could not be obtained anywhere else. 
