ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 303 
No change has been made in the Register since its pub- 
lication last year; but during the present year it is intended 
to publish a new edition, including the names of all those 
members who may have been admitted up to the time of its 
issue. The deaths will also be noticed, and any changes of 
locality which members may be pleased to forward ; which 
they are requested to do to the Registrar. 
The number of pupils who have received the Diploma of 
the College during the past year is 29? making the number 
that have passed since the obtainment of the Charter, 431. 
The deaths reported are 22, so that there are at present 1335 
practitioners on the list of members. 
The Board of Examiners is still presided over by Professor 
Brande : some changes had been contemplated, not in its 
constitution, but in its arangements ; the only alteration, 
however, that has taken place has been the addition of a 
Veterinary Examiner on Materia Medica to the Chemical 
Table, thus securing a Veterinary Practitioner to each 
division of the Board. 
The Financial affairs of the College continue highly satis- 
factory, a balance of £402 19$. 8f/., after the liquidation of all 
accounts given in up to the present day, being in your 
Banker’s hands. Three Trustees for the College have been 
appointed — viz., Professor Sewell and Messrs. Robinson and 
Field, and it was intended to have invested a portion of the 
balance in hand in the Government Securities, but that idea 
is suspended until it has been ascertained what amount will 
be required for the residence for the College. 
In conclusion, the Council confidently hope that this 
resume will give satisfaction to the profession at large. The 
prospect now before us is as a bright vista, over which 
although for a time clouds may pass, they will not long rest 
darkening our progressive course ; but as we press onwards 
and new views present themselves, these will increase its 
beauties and its brightness till we have attained that position 
for which we became incorporated, and which is and long 
has been the anxious aim of every deserving member of the 
profession. May these our anticipations be more than 
realised ! 
E. N. GABRIEL, 
Secretary. 
April 9, 1853. 
