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PROCEEDINGS IN COUNCIL. 
Members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, in con- 
tradistinction to those who had no chartered right to call them- 
selves veterinary surgeons. 
Mr. Mayer’s observations, concluding our account of the 
General Meeting — suggesting “ that in future the interval be- 
tween the conclusion of the meeting and the dinner in the 
evening should be occupied by a conversazione, in which some 
member should read a short paper for discussion among the 
members” — remind us strongly of some remarks to the same 
purport we made in our Leader for February last. T-hey were 
thus : — “ Nothing would please us more than to see such a 
President (of our College) as would assemble our scattered flock 
around him, and, ere his year of office run out” — at the General 
Meeting we me£n — “in imitation of the President of the College 
of Surgeons, in the delivery of his Hunterian oration — give a 
COLEMANIAN ORATION !” This would not only fill up any 
time that might be left to spare after the transaction of the 
ordinary business of the meeting, but would, there is little 
reason to doubt, prove an inducement for many members who 
have never yet been present, or at all events are by no means 
regular attendants, at the general and only annual meeting of 
the profession, to give us the pleasure and advantage of their 
appearance thereat. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL 
COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS, 
Freemasons’ Tavern, May 13th, 1831. 
Present — Messrs. HENDERSON in the Chair), Braby, Cherry, 
A. Cherry, Dickens, F. King, Peech, Robinson, Sil- 
vester, J. Turner, Wilkinson; Professors Morton and 
Spooner; and the Secretary. 
The Chairman stated the first business to be the election of 
a President for the ensuing year. 
Mr. Cherry proposed the election of Mr. Robinson. 
Mr. Peech seconded the motion. 
Prof. Morton had no doubt that the Council would be unani- 
