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occupy the places of those going out by rotation. “ Within one 
calendar month” after which “ Annual General Meeting,” as di- 
rected by the Charter, and “as early as convenient,” as ordered 
by the by-laws, a day shall be fixed for convening the Council for 
the purpose of electing a President, six Vice-Presidents, and a 
Secretary. On a former occasion*, in adverting to this subject, we 
expressed our lack of interest in the matter further than that the 
post of presidentship, being one denotive of the highest honorary 
pretensions in our College, “ should, in our opinion, be conferred 
upon some one or other of the respected elders of the profession, 
&c.” We need not tell our reader that one of our “ respected 
elders” has been nominated ; since in the person of Mr. Robinson, 
the present President, not only is found fifty years’ standing as a 
member of the veterinary profession, but a respectability and inte- 
grity of character which, in his sphere of practice, and wherever 
he is known, yields to that of no man either in or out of the 
profession ; to say nothing here of the obligations those who 
petitioned for the Charter were at the time under to that gentle- 
man for his very effective and successful advocacy of their 
cause. For our own part, had we been present at his election, 
there is but one man we should have presumed to have placed 
in competition with him, and that man is Professor Sewell. 
Which gentleman may be the older of the two, as registered 
members of our profession, we are not informed either by the 
old or the new “ list of members;” nor, perhaps, would that 
consideration have had more weight with us than their respect- 
ive ages. At the same time, we must confess — and we feel 
quite certain Mr. Robinson will not feel displeased with us for 
recording our avowal — that, looking at the station Professor 
Sewell occupies as head master of our veterinary school, and 
considering how long and how extensively he has been known 
in that eminent position — taking, we say, all this into consider- 
ation, we cannot but own we felt a penchant for elevating him 
to the chair of President of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons. In the forthcoming election, however, we are not 
sure that we should pursue the same course of politics; since it 
must be evident, we think, to everybody, that Mr. Robinson, 
* In The Veterinarian for February, 1851. 
