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ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
The students of the Highland Society lately expected to be 
practically examined by the Board of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons, and they, therefore, more carefully 
prepared themselves than was usual, and the consequence was 
they passed with greater eclat than ever. Although many of 
them had not had an apprenticeship education, they strove 
to attain, and did attain, the necessary knowledge. He be- 
lieved this would be the effect in most cases. The students 
knowing the sort of test they would have to undergo, would 
make greater efforts, and by some means or other prepare 
themselves for it. 
Mr. Gowing said he had no doubt but that the advancement 
of the profession had been prevented by the unfit state in which 
many had been sent out to practise. The sooner the new 
kind of examination was carried out the better. 
Mr. Naylor regarded the practical examination as of far 
more importance than any apprenticeship clause could pos- 
sibly be. He allowed his students to go to the Agricultural 
Society at Cirencester previously to going to the schools. It 
was also of the greatest importance that there should be some 
method by which the young men could see pauper patients, 
and be made more acquainted with general practice. By 
attending an agricultural college, where they might acquire 
a knowledge of botany, the students would be infinitely more 
benefited than by any apprenticeship. Pauper patients had 
been received in Edinburgh for years. 
Mr. Smith expressed his approbation of the report. He 
was only sorry that the subject of the practical examination and 
the preliminary examination was still somewhat in abeyance. 
Mr. Wilkinson said the principles of these two great move- 
ments had been adopted not only by the Council itself, but 
also by the different gentlemen who presided over the schools. 
The only matters in abeyance were the details. 
The report was then unanimously adopted. 
Mr. Ernes suggested that in future the report should con- 
tain the number of times that each member of the Council 
had attended the meetings. 
The following gentlemen were then proposed as members 
of the Council : 
Mr. Robinson, ^ 
„ Wilkinson, 
Professor Spooner, { 
Mr. Coates, ( 
„ Broad, 
,, Clement Lowe, J 
proposed by Mr. Ernes. 
