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Professor Dick and Professor Sewell, it was impossible that 
a satisfactory list could be obtained. 
Mr. Cherry said, there were lists published by authority as 
far back as 1803, which would much facilitate the labours of 
the Registrar. He thought it most unsatisfactory to take the 
members’ own account of themselves; they should only be 
invited to supply deficiencies, or correct any erroneous entries 
that might come under their observation. 
Professor Simonds wished to say a word as to the part he 
had taken in reference to the list. He had always desired that 
there should be as correct a list as possible of the members of 
the profession, and that information should be furnished as to 
whether they were living or dead. He had procured Mr. 
Mayer’s register, which he had bound and interleaved ; and he 
had himself been in the habit of entering the names of members 
according to the date of their passing, taking care to indicate 
any death of which he was satisfactorily assured. This list he 
continued up to 1819, and the Registrar had availed himself of 
it, having printed in italics the names of those whom he had 
marked as dead. 
The Registrar said, he had embodied in his present register 
all the names published in Mr. Mayer’s list, unless he knew 
personally that the entries were incorrect ; and in the last issue, 
all the names of those who had passed were given, even up to 
the last examination. Whether there was any source from 
which further information could be obtained must remain a 
question of time; at present he was not aware of any. As to 
“ mixing up the dead and the living,” that was simply a matter 
of opinion. 
Mr. Cherry thought the present list calculated to excite an 
erroneous impression on the part of the members generally, an 
impression which might be removed by a reference to the early 
lists published by the Veterinary College, of which he (Mr. 
Cherry) had a great number in his possession. Members would 
now imagine (as there was no explanation to correct the im- 
pression) that those only in the list were dead whose names 
were printed in italics, and that the others were a complete list 
of all the members of the profession ; while it was clear that 
there were very many others whose existence might have been 
ascertained by a reference to the documents he had alluded to. 
Professor Spooner would prefer seeing the living and the 
dead members forming separate lists ; he also thought that it 
would have been advisable to have made a distinct list of those 
who died before the Charter was obtained, for up to that time 
they were not legally a profession. 
The Chairman stated that the Charter gave the title of 
