490 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
It being understood that this was to be done in future the 
minutes were adopted. 
A letter from Dr. Dunsmure, dated 22nd of April, 1870, 
was read with reference to the recent examinations. 
The President explained that there were neither specimens 
of healthy bones nor diseased bones, nor specimens of drugs 
on the table at the examinations referred to in the letter, and 
there was a delay of half an hour. It appeared that on former 
occasions Professor M f Call provided the specimens. On this 
occasion Professor Williams was to do so, but he had forgotten 
all about it. There was great delay, and the question was 
forced upon them whether it would not be better to be inde- 
pendent of the colleges, and to have specimens of their own. 
If the Council would provide a few drugs and bones the 
Secretary would take charge of them. He promised to name 
it to the Council. He thought they had provided drugs for 
the examinations in that room. 
Professor Spooner : Is it so ? 
The Secretary : No, only part of them. 
Professor Spooner : Professor Morton provided some of 
the specimens. I may say at every examination we have 
sent down from our college anatomical specimens. 
The President : They would manage, I dare say, with the 
anatomical specimens ; they wanted the drugs. 
Professor Gamgee said, for several years he provided a great 
many specimens in Edinburgh and they had really a very fair 
collection, as a rule, on the table. It was a matter requiring 
careful consideration. It was very important that materials 
should be provided for examinations. They could not discuss 
the question at that meeting, and he proposed that they should 
reconsider the matter as early as possible after the annual 
general meeting. No doubt some of them might co-operate 
to get some specimens together. 
Mr. Wilkinson did not see the least difficulty in the 
matter. If, as was suggested, the examinations were to be 
held alternately at Glasgow and at Edinburgh, Professor 
M f Call would furnish everything except drugs from his own 
museum, and Professor Williams could have done so this 
year. As to drugs, it would be very wise on the part of the 
College to procure such a selection as the Examiners on 
Chemistry, &c., at Edinburgh and Glasgow might require. 
But as to anatomical preparations, it would have to provide 
a whole museum if it were to meet every caprice of the 
Examiners. The Secretary might communicate with Dr. 
Dunsmure to know what drugs would be wanted. 
