ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 303 
The labours of the professional reporter are submitted to the 
supervision of a committee, specifically appointed at each meet- 
ing; and thus is secured a fair and unbiassed statement, which 
may, consequently, be considered as authentic. 
“ Several resignations having taken place in the section of 
the Board of Examiners acting for Scotland ; and some altera- 
tions of it being deemed desirable to secure its more efficient 
operation — as, from the report of the deputation to Edinburgh, a 
considerable degree of laxity and irregularity had crept in — it 
has been re-organized. Professor Lizars of Edinburgh, Dr. 
Easton of Glasgow, and Mr. Robb, veterinary surgeon, of the 
same place, have been elected to the vacant chairs ; and your 
Council cannot doubt that the addition of gentlemen so well 
known to science will materially tend to enhance the Board in 
the estimation of the public. 
“Your Council have also to announce that Mr. Field, after 
rendering considerable service to the College in his official 
capacity as Treasurer, and after having had the gratification of 
seeing the original debt liquidated, resigned his appointment. 
His resignation was received with regret; but still your Council 
felt that they could not urge his remaining in office, knowing 
that his time is so fully occupied by his professional avocations 
as to leave but little for the transaction of other matter; nothing 
remained, therefore, but to tender him their thanks, and to ap- 
point his successor : this was done, and Mr. Henderson was 
unanimously elected to the office, a gentleman whose name is 
a sufficient guarantee that its obligations will be faithfully 
performed. 
“ The important question of Finance will, it is trusted, be found 
in a very satisfactory condition. A balance of £220.. 6s.. 3c?. 
remains in hand, notwithstanding the heavy demands made on 
the funds during the past year for legal opinions, a new form 
of diploma, printing the Charter and Bye-laws, with other 
necessary expenses connected with the meetings of the Council 
and the examinations of the pupils. 
“ The first official Register of the members of the College 
was issued in 1848, and in the following year this was added to 
and corrected by the publication of an Addendum. A new 
List is this day laid on the table by the Registrar, in which all 
honorary distinctions to which members are entitled, as commu- 
nicated to that officer, are inserted. It is scarcely necessary to 
add, all inaccuracies or omissions will be corrected as early as 
possible ; it being a matter of no small importance to the pro- 
fession that the public should be informed as to who is and who 
is not a graduated member of the College. 
“ Forty-one gentlemen have received the Diploma of the 
