PROCEEDINGS IN COUNCIL. 
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Sitting of April 9, 1851. 
Special Meeting. 
Present — The President; Messrs. Braby, Cherry, A. 
Cherry, Ernes, Henderson, King, Wilkinson ; Pro- 
fessors Morton, Simonds, Spooner ; and the Secretary. 
The President in the Chair. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and signed. 
The Secretary stated, that he had communicated to the gentle- 
men named on the Scotch Board their respective nominations as 
Examiners, and had received replies from Professor Lizars and 
Mr. George Robb, but had not yet heard from Dr. Easton. 
Professor Simonds asked whether this was not the proper 
time to fill up the vacancies which still existed in the Scotch 
Board. 
The Secretary observed, that such could not be done now, as 
no notice had been given. 
Professor Morton , under these circumstances, gave notice 
that he should propose Mr. Gowie to fill one of the vacancies. 
That gentleman, he said, had lately read a paper before one of 
the agricultural societies of Scotland on veterinary medicine, 
and stood very high in the profession. 
Mr. A. Cherry (Registrar) handed in the following Report to 
Council for their approval. 
Report from the Registrar to the Council of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
In accordance with the directions of the Council, an adver- 
tisement was inserted in The Veterinarian, calling the at- 
tention of the members of the body corporate to the by-law 
relating to the appending of honorary distinctions in the Re- 
gistry to the names of those entitled thereto. Such adver- 
tisement has, however, been but little responded to, as only 
six communications have been received. Some of these contain 
a claim to which the Registrar begs leave to direct the attention 
of the Council, viz., to be recognised as “ Members of the Ve- 
terinary Medical Association,” a distinction which he considers 
inadmissible, because such association is under the control and 
direction of the London School, instituted for the purpose of 
aiding in the education of the pupils, and over this the Council 
has no direct power or influence. It has also come to the know- 
ledge of the Registrar, that the term or title of “ Member of the 
Veterinary Medical Association” has been, and still is, made 
use of as a cover for the assumption of the name of, and the 
practising as, a “ veterinary surgeon.” 
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