492 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Mr. Fleming said no one was more desirous than himself 
of giving the profession every information with regard 
to what was done at that table. He referred to some 
of the reports, which were extremely lengthy, and which 
might be condensed with advantage. They might put, in 
fewer words, what had been said in those reports, and still 
give the profession the full advantage of knowing what had 
been done. 
The report, after having been read through clause by clause, 
and some verbal alterations made in it, was adopted. 
The Auditors' report was read. 
Mr. Wilkinson proposed that the report be received. Mr. 
Hunt seconded. Agreed to. 
Mr. Broad proposed that the report be adopted. Professor 
Pritchard seconded. Agreed to. 
The report of the deputation who had been appointed to 
attend the Governors of the Royal Veterinary College was 
read. 
The President said he was informed that the Edinburgh 
and Glasgow authorities were very anxious in reference to 
this preliminary examination, and the Governors at the 
Royal Veterinary College were equally determined to 
have it put into operation at the beginning of the next 
session. He suggested that a meeting of the professors 
should be held the day after the annual meeting. The pro- 
fessors from Glasgow and Edinburgh would then be here. 
The suggestion met with Professor Spooner's approbation, 
and if the Council agreed to it the Education Inquiry 
Committee would meet the professors on the Tuesday after 
the annual meeting. He might inform the Council that 
the high schools of Edinburgh and Glasgow had been 
communicated with, and they were both agreeable to un- 
dertake the duties in accordance with the plan he had 
sketched out. The professors of the Edinburgh school had 
been requested to draw out a form, and had done so. The 
nature of it was that the Board should undertake the duty 
of preliminary examination and should be composed of 
three gentlemen, one to be chosen from the College of Pre- 
ceptors in London, to examine the London students ; one from 
the High School in Edinburgh, to examine the Edinburgh 
students; and one from the High School in Glasgow, for 
their Glasgow students : that all examinations should be 
written, and that the written examination of the London 
students should be sent from the London examiners to the 
Edinburgh examiner for his approval or disapproval ; then he 
was to send it to Glasgow, and it would then go back to 
