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and without any of that agitation which, while it threw some- 
thing more than discredit upon the movers of it, became 
extremely unpleasant, and even painful, to those who found 
themselves then and there assembled. However, we will not 
look back upon such scenes as these, but cast our eye for- 
ward through the vista of futurity, and endeavour to realise, 
in imagination, those “ bright” anticipations which the 
“ Abstract of the Proceedings ” of the College for the sessional 
year now past, in picture at least, presents to us. 
The most prominent feature in the “Abstract,” one very pro- 
perly placed foremost therein, is the mention of an attempt, 
unsuccessful though it turned out to be, to obtain a house to 
which might be assigned the name of the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons. One was found w-hich seemed likely 
to answer, pro tempore at least, the purpose required : through 
the “ law’s delay,” however, it fell into other hands, leaving 
the “house committee/’ appointed by council, to re-com- 
mence their search. The “ Bill of Exemptions,” it is pro- 
mised, shall be reintroduced into Parliament “the very first 
Opportunity.” While the finance of the College is, under 
all the circumstances of the case, in a state to place the infant 
institution in a condition to defy the machinations of those 
w ho w r ould, had they their hearts’ desire, break it down and 
utterly destroy it. 
So far, “all’s well!” at least all’s hopeful; and yet we 
would fain ask, here, as a question wdiich might be put by 
any inquirer, even by a stranger, how comes it that in an insti- 
tution doing, to appearances, so tolerably well, so few out of 
its thousand members are to be sfen at the General Meeting? 
Railway meetings, where people’s pockets are involved, rarely 
are thinly attended ; nay, even literary meetings, providing 
they be of an interesting character, command attendance ; 
but a veterinary meeting, albeit the “College” in proprid 
persona be there, does not amount to above 3 or 4 per cent, of 
the entire number of the profession. How is this? 
One reason for such defalcation appears self-evident. 
There are two Veterinary Schools in existence in Great 
Britain, of which but one acknow ledges the supremacy of 
