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ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Professor Spooner suggested an alteration in the report of 
the Committee, as it appeared on the minutes, with refer- 
ence to the place for holding the examination. 
Professor Gamgee said that it was the report of the Com- 
mittee which had been adopted by the Council, and could 
not now be altered. 
The President said the report was put to the Council and 
carried, and if the matter had been left there, it would have 
been his duty to have instructed the Secretary to give notice 
to the different Colleges that the examination would take 
place. But a resolution, proposed by Professor Brown, was 
carried to the effect that a copy of this report should be for- 
warded to the authorities at the Colleges for their considera- 
tion. That had been done. He could do no more than 
comply with the motion. 
Professor Brown said his resolution was framed for the 
purpose of showing that the Council did not intend to en- 
force the examinations at once. The fact that the Council 
directed the President to confer with the College authorities 
was to be taken as an indication that they did not intend to 
ask for the practical examination this year. 
Mr. Withers. — We determined on the postponement of 
the practical examinations to next year. 
Professor Brown said that was what his resolution was 
intended to indicate. 
Professor Spooner said they could not practically adopt 
that report. It was all very well for the Committee to say 
the present state of the Court of Examiners could effect the 
purpose ; the present state of the Court of Examiners he did 
not hesitate to say could not effect it. 
Mr. Morgan said there seemed to be an attempt to shelve 
the practical examination altogether. He objected to its 
postponement, and thought some commencement ought to 
be made. He objected to any alteration in the report, or 
any addition to the minutes. The report was adopted and 
approved in January, and now by a side wind they wanted to 
get rid of it. 
Professor Spooner said he was totally at a loss to know 
what had been said by any member of the Council that could 
give rise to the suggestion that there was any desire to shelve 
the question, or to get rid of it by a side wind. Nothing had 
fallen from any member of the Council to warrant such an 
assertion. 
Mr. Morgan. — If words have a meaning at all, you have 
said enough since you came into this room to lead me to 
believe it. 
