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effected that without the chartered College which they have it 
in their power to achieve with it: veterinary science would 
have felt the want of it ; the public and the army could not 
have been so well served with veterinary aid as the present 
improved aspect of affairs affords every assurance of their being 
ere the College has stood many years upon its now promising 
improved foundation. 
With so short and gratifying a report before them, the 
General Meeting had its attention especially drawn to the latter 
part of it, wherein a subject in questionable shape presented 
itself to their notice. This was the subject of registration. A 
new list of the members of the College had been prepared for 
the occasion ; one which, though it must have cost some pains 
and trouble to compile, failed to give universal satisfaction. 
Fault was found with it for containing the names of members 
dead as well as living, notwithstanding the former were contra- 
distinguished by being printed in italics. One member thought 
the dead had no claims for admission into the list at all ; 
while another conceived it would be best to entomb them in a 
separate list by themselves. Wherever they may be, or to 
wheresoever they may be consigned, for our own part, we say, 
Requiescant in pace. 
Unless it be for the sake of swelling the registry, we do not, 
for our own part, see any great good to be derived from retain- 
ing them in the catalogue. 
It is a much easier matter, however, to find fault with a 
registry than to compose one, or even to point out in what way 
the faulty one admits of being amended or improved. For 
registration to exhibit any approach to perfection, the registrar 
must have ample and ready material to work with, and willing 
and effective aid to call in, as occasion may require. How has 
the recent public census been obtained 1 If a great national 
undertaking like this has been year after year accomplished, 
and satisfactorily so, why cannot a comparatively insignificant 
affair like ours be effectively worked out! So it can, and with 
as much ease, give the registrar like powers and facilities! 
The public functionary sends to every house a printed form of 
notice to be filled up according to specified directions by the 
