ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
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Moore, G. Morgan, M. E. Naylor, G. A. Oliphant, H. Olver, 
W. Partridge, C. Phillips, Rd. Pritchard, A. E. Queripel, W. 
Robinson, James Rose, T. Sangster, E. R. Silvester, W. 
Smith, Ed. Stanley, F. T. Stanley, P. Taylor, W. A. Taylor, 
R. C. Trigger, W. Wilson, S. H. Withers, H. Withers, Jos. 
Woodger, Jos. Woodger, jun., Ed. Woodger, and the 
Secretary. 
The Secretary read the notice convening the meeting. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The Secretary then read the twenty- seventh annual report, 
including the Treasurer’s annual balance-sheet. 
REPORT. 
The Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 
have to report to the body corporate that at their first meeting, 
held in May, and in accordance with the provisions of the 
charter, Thomas Greaves, Esq., was elected President. The 
following gentlemen were also elected, to fill the office of 
Vice-Presidents : Principals Williams and McCall, Pro- 
fessor Brown, Messrs. Harrison, Thacker, and Morgan ; 
Treasurer, Mr. S. H. Withers; and Secretary, Mr. W. H. 
Coates. 
The only political question which occupied the atten- 
tion of the Council during the past year was the Pharmacy 
Act Amendment Bill ; and an application was successfully 
made, through the Parliamentary agents, for extending the 
provisions of -the Act to the members of the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons. The following is an extract from 
the Act, dated August 11th, 1869 : 
“ Whereas it is expedient to amend the provisions of the 
Pharmacy Act of 1868 in regard to duly qualified Medical 
practitioners and Veterinary Surgeons, and in other respects, 
as follows : 
“ Nothing contained in the first fifteen sections of the 
Vested Act shall affect any person who has been registered 
as a legally qualified medical practitioner before the passing 
of this Act, and the said clauses shall not apply to any person 
who may hereafter be registered as a legally qualified prac- 
titioner, and who, in order to obtain his diploma for such 
registration, shall have passed an examination in Pharmacy, 
nor shall the said clauses prevent any person who is a member 
of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons of Great Britain, 
or holds a certificate in Veterinary Surgery from the High- 
land and Agricultural Society of Scotland, from dispensing 
medicines for animals under his care.” 
