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ANNUAL MEETING. 
The negociations were carried on in a favorable manner 
until the month of July, when the Council received a com- 
munication from the Royal Veterinary College, of which the 
following is a copy : 
Royal Veterinary College, 
July 1 Qth , 1870. 
To the Governors of the Royal Veterinary College . 
My Lords and Gentlemen, 
We, the undersigned Professors, having agreeably 
to your request given our best consideration to the subject of 
the matriculation examination, as well as to the propositions 
relating thereto made by the Council of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons and the Veterinary Colleges of Edin- 
burgh and Glasgow, beg respectfully to place before you the 
following suggestions : 
First. That at the ensuing admission of pupils into the 
College in October next, the College of Preceptors be engaged 
to conduct the matriculation examination. 
Secondly. That in the event of your determining to act 
upon the foregoing suggestion, publicity by advertisement be 
at once given to the regulations under which the matricula- 
tion examination will be conducted. 
Thirdly. That as, under existing circumstances, no advan- 
tage can, we believe, accrue to this Institution from placing 
any control over the nature or extent of the matriculation 
examination into the hands of the Royal College of Veteri- 
nary Surgeons, it is inexpedient to submit to such control. 
Fourthly. That inasmuch as we fail to see in what manner 
this College could be benefited by its authorities entering into 
the proposed contract with those of the two Scotch Colleges, 
it would be unwise at present to make any agreement with 
them, beyond the entering into a mutual understanding that 
no pupil should be permitted to present himself for matricu- 
lation examination at one College if he had been rejected at 
the corresponding examination of either of the other two 
Colleges, until six months after said rejection. 
We remain, my Lords and Gentlemen, 
Your most obedient Servants, 
(Signed) Charles Spooner, 
R. V. Tuson, 
Wm. Pritchard, 
J. Wortley Axe. 
The conclusions arrived at with reference to the accom- 
panying Report were — 
