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SPECIAL MEETING OF COUNCIL, 
Tuesday, May 10th. 
Present : Messrs. Braby, Burley, A. Cherry, Dickens, 
Field, Gabriel, Henderson, Mayer, Peech, Robinson, Silvester, 
Stockley, Turner, Varnell, Withers, Wilkinson, and Professors 
Spooner, Simonds, and Morton. 
W. Robinson, Esq., in the Chair. 
The minutes of the previous Meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
The Council then proceeded to the election of President 
for the ensuing year, when 
Mr. Henderson proposed Mr. Wm. Field. 
Mr. Silvester seconded the nomination. 
Mr. Turner proposed Mr. Wm. Goodwin. 
Prof, Spooner thought that the Council, in choosing a 
President, having paid the compliment to the body of 
general practitioners and to the Royal Veterinary College, 
should now direct its attention to the army. He should 
like to propose the principal Veterinary Surgeon, Mr. 
Cherry, but he was aware that there were difficulties in 
the way of that gentleman’s election ; for he believed that, 
instead of doing all in his power in behalf of the corporate 
body, Mr. Cherry had appointed to the army, or had con- 
sented to the appointment of, persons \vho were not members 
of that body. However, he (Prof. Spooner) was willing to 
overlook the past, and should be glad to see Mr. Cherry 
elected, if he would, personally or by proxy, give the Council 
an assurance that he would exert himself to promote the best 
interests of the College. 
Mr. Turner thought Mr. Cherry was not friendly to the 
Institution, having not only made the appointment referred 
to, but refused, when called upon, to give any explanation of 
the course he had adopted. 
Mr. Mayer drew attention to the fact of Mr. Cherry’s 
having suffered the Annual Report to pass the Council nem. 
con ., and then opposed and found fault with it at the annual 
meeting. He then expressed his regret that two such 
worthy and excellent members of the profession should be 
placed in antagonism with each other, and mentioned some 
of the claims of Mr. Field to be elected as President, espe- 
cially alluding to the parliamentary influence which he said 
