876 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
The clause and recommendation of the Committee was 
agreed to. 
(2) The place where the practical examination should be 
carried on. The Committee reported that it would rest with 
the Council to determine whether it would be desirable to 
seek the assistance of the authorities of the Royal Veterinary 
College in respect to their permitting the examinations to be 
carried on within the walls of the College, and that in the event 
of the Council deciding in the affirmative, it would no doubt 
give the necessary instruction, with a view to ascertaining 
whether the said authorities were disposed to render that 
assistance. The Committee expressed a belief that no diffi- 
culty would be experienced in obtaining suitable premises 
elsewhere if the application to the Royal Veterinary College 
failed. 
The President said he had been to Scotland since the last 
meeting of the Council, and from what the authorities there 
had told him he believed they would find no difficulty about 
premises or subjects. The only reply received from the 
Royal Veterinary College was a letter acknowledging the 
receipt of the communication from the Council of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
Professor Simo?ids : I think, in order to put this matter 
in its proper position, it will be right for the three letters, 
instead of the two previously referred to, to be entered on 
our minutes, so that at our next meeting the matter can be 
considered in its entirety. 
(3) The time at which the practical examination should be 
held. The Committee recommendeded that the practical 
examination should be held on the day preceding that of the 
pass examination. 
The President : This proposition means that the examiners 
who are required to perform this part of the duty will have 
to appear for the examinations the day before the pass 
examinations begin. They will then examine twelve appli- 
cants, and in the early part of the succeeding day twelve 
more, and so on. It will be an arduous duty for those 
examiners to have to institute, as it were, two examinations 
each day ; but the Committee could not see their way to 
any other arrangement which would be satisfactory. By 
this plan the pupils will not be expected to undergo two 
examinations on one day, but will have time for consideration 
from the middle of one day to the evening of the next. 
Mr . Pritchard : I should see no difficulty in undertaking 
the examination the day before. 
Mr. Cartledge thought the suggestion a satisfactory one. 
