146 110 YAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Mr. Morgan's resolution was then carried. 
Professor Gamgee gave notice that at the next special 
meeting he should propose that a safe should be purchased 
to contain the valuable records of the College. 
The Secretary then proceeded to read the following report 
of the deputation to the authorities in Scotland : — 
THE HEPORT OF THE DEPUTATION TO THE AUTHORITIES 
OF THE SCHOOLS IN SCOTLAND, 1869. 
The members of the deputation met in Edinburgh, at half- 
past 10 o'clock, on the 1st of November, 1869, for the 
purpose of making the necessary arrangements for the 
business of the day. 
The President took the chair ; and having made some 
preliminary remarks, a conversation took place as to whether 
a rejected candidate at the matriculating examination might 
present himself before a different Board for entrance at 
another school, or whether he should be obliged to appear 
before the same Board which rejected him, and whether any 
time — say a year — should be fixed on during which he should 
be relegated for further study. 
The deputation, having discussed the subject at some length, 
came to the conclusion that the point did not appear to belong 
to that part of the business which was the immediate object 
in visiting Scotland, but rather for the future deliberation of 
the Council. 
The President then explained the purpose of the deputa- 
tion, and gave the heads of the remarks which he intended 
to make to the trustees of the Edinburgh School and the 
principal of the one at Glasgow. 
A general agreement having been come to respecting the 
preliminaries, the deputation had interviews with the prin- 
cipals of those schools, and had much reason for being 
gratified with the frank and unhesitating manner in which 
they signified their approval of and adhesion to the great 
principle to which the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 
was endeavouring to give practical effect. 
Mr . M‘Call stated that the matriculating examination 
which already existed at the Glasgow School was more 
stringent than the one proposed, and therefore he could have 
no objection to offer. He also stated that he was quite 
willing that the selection of the board of examiners should be 
made by the Council, provided the authorities of the other 
schools would do likewise. 
Mr. Williams expressed a wish that ; as far as he was con- 
