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Council resolve itself into a committee for the purpose of 
considering the report.” 
The President said he presumed the object of Professor 
Brown’s motion was to suspend the office of the reporter for 
the time being. 
Professor Broion replied affirmatively. 
Mr. Silvester seconded the proposition. 
The President (upon the motion being agreed to) in- 
timated to the Reporter that he was not to take notice of 
anything that occurred throughout the discussion which 
might arise upon the report. 
A discussion of considerable length then took place with 
regard to certain alterations in the report, and it was finally 
agreed “ that the report as altered be printed.” 
The next matter brought before the Council was the 
auditor’s report. 
The President said (previously to this report being read) 
he wished to make a statement with reference to the special 
examinations. Special examinations had been held with the 
view of admitting into the body corporate such as had obtained 
the certificate of the Highland and Agricultural Society of 
Scotland by an examination, the nature of which was fully 
discussed at the time, which amounted to this, that if they 
were abroad they should be allowed to pass a written ex- 
amination, and that the papers, when they were returned 
to the Council, should be submitted to a Board appointed by 
the Council, to determine whether they were satisfactory or 
not. It w r as quite within the memory of the members of the 
Council that at the time this was intended to be considered 
as a mere nominal examination to fulfil the laws of the 
Charter and the by-laws. The by-laws were suspended for 
the purpose of admitting these gentlemen on those terms, 
and were still suspended. Some gentlemen in India had 
had papers sent to them, and the papers came back for 
examination. At a meeting of the Board, on Friday, an 
ex officio member demanded to know what the nature 
of the examination was, and claimed to take a part in it. 
Now he, being an ex officio member of the Examining 
Board, the Chairman of that Examining Board (himself the 
President) did not think it competent for the Board to go on 
wfith the examination, if it was not to be carried on in accord- 
ance with the custom which had been established by the 
Council, and he therefore adjourned the examination in order 
that he might submit the question to the Council, whether 
the examinations should he carried on according to the 
custom which had been established since the suspension of 
