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range themselves under, three headings ; viz. the Council , the 
Examinations , and the Corporation or College. 
The Council, as appointed at the General Meeting by the 
members at large, may be said to be, under the direction of the 
president, the governing body of the profession. It is therefore 
a matter of no small importance that both caution and judgment 
be exercised in the selection of members as councillors. The 
by-laws have regard to this. They have provided for the 
admission and election of members into council, have regulated 
their meetings and proceedings , and have so directed the latter 
that they may work in that channel which past experience has 
pointed out as most conducive to the welfare and prosperity 
of the veterinary community. 
But it is the examinations that we regard with most critical 
eye, as constituting that division of the concerns of the college 
upon which we must look — in futuro at least — for the ame- 
lioration of a profession we have been long regarding as “ im- 
proving but which, in our eye, has undergone little or no real 
improvement since the time Coleman sat as our Professor. It 
is the duty of the College to see well into this matter ; and to 
lay down in respect to it such laws as shall in their judgment 
tend the best to promote it. Let those who frame by-laws, 
and sit in the chairs of examiners, remember, that they are 
legislating and awarding for those who are to come after them ; 
and that if in future days it turn out that the college is not 
worthily represented, they, and they principally, are to blame. 
Let the schools do their utmost to improve their classes, and let 
the court of examiners conscientiously do their duty, and per- 
sist in the determination to “ pass” nobody save him who is 
in their deliberate judgment found “ duly qualified to prac- 
tise the veterinary art.” The charter has conferred on the 
council the right of electing examiners ; and the council, through 
their by-laws, have specified the conditions on which the can- 
didate will be received for examination; — given an outline of 
the nature of such examination; — prescribed the form of ex- 
amination ; — directed the manner of conferring the diploma, &c. 
In respect to the qualifications for examination required of 
the candidate, it will be remembered by some, that, in the first 
