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But, even supposing the coalition of the Scotch school 
obtained, would that necessarily entail the adherence of the 
scattered members of the Profession, and induce them in 
greater numbers to come up to the General Meeting and the 
dinner. No doubt it would with some educated at and 
attached to the Scotch school ; and did the meeting, from this 
or from any other cause, ever become a larger one, many of 
the apathetic class might then feel disposed to add to the 
numbers of so augmented and proportionally celebrated a 
professional association. 
We cannot help thinking — and we know there are not a 
few who think with us — that our College, as it stands, par- 
takes rather too much of the hole-and-corner system. A 
large general meeting would tend, in a measure, to remedy 
this, by not being so likely to re-elect, over and over again, 
the same council-men ; while different council-men would 
choose different presidents, vice-presidents, and officers ; and 
these changes of men would give rise to changes of measures; 
out of which would naturally arise a different working of the 
corporate machine. We should then forestall any see-saw 
movement going on year after year ; and probably, ere many 
sessions had past over our heads, behold ourselves placed, 
by this free-trade sort of system in another, and it is to be 
hoped, improved status altogether. 
The present President of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons is not without name and pretensions to distinction 
of office. Many will remember his late father, an excellent 
man, than whom the profession had no warmer friend. He 
was Veterinary Surgeon to that capital judge of horse-flesh, 
his late Majesty, George the IVth, in wffiich royal office he was 
succeeded by his son, the present Mr. Goodwin, w ho held the 
office until last year, when he was replaced in it by Mr. 
Langworthy. Many years ago, the elder Mr. Goodwin com- 
piled a work ‘ On Shoeing in which a “ new system,” mainly 
from the French, was introduced, and by several shoeing 
