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PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL 
COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Council Meeting, May 27th, 1851. 
Present — The PRESIDENT (in the Chair), Professors SPOONER, 
Simonds, and Morton ; Messrs. Braby, Burley, Cherry, 
A. Cherry, Ernes, Godwin, Henderson, Jas. Turner, 
Wilkinson, Withers; and the Secretary. 
The minutes of the last meeting having been read and 
confirmed, 
Mr. Godwin proposed, and Mr. James Turner seconded, the 
re-appointment of Mr. A. Cherry as Registrar. 
Professor Simonds referred to the incompleteness of the Re- 
gister, and to the difficulties in the way of compiling a complete 
list of the members of the profession — difficulties which he con- 
sidered no one individual could surmount. He therefore pro- 
posed the appointment of a Committee of Registration, of which 
Mr. A. Cherry should be a member, for the purpose of laying 
before the Council as complete a list of members as they could 
compile. The Registrar had not at present sufficient materials ; 
and it was not right that he should be placed in the unpleasant 
position of being obliged to send out so imperfect a list as that 
which had been published. 
Mr. A. Cherry said, there was an admission in the Register 
that it was only correct up to the year 1809. He adverted to 
the many difficulties which had been thrown in his way by the 
apathy evinced by the great body of the profession ; and ex- 
pressed a hope, after the remarks which had been made upon the 
incorrectness and incompleteness of the Register, that he should 
have time allowed him to make good its deficiencies : when that 
was done he should willingly resign his office into the hands of 
a committee. 
Mr. Cherry , and several other members, drew attention to 
the lists which had been published from time to time by the 
College, and expressed their surprise that the Registrar should 
not have availed himself of them, as they would have supplied 
many omissions in the list he had prepared. 
Mr. A. Cherry said, he doubted the correctness of these lists, 
and did not, therefore, embody the names contained in them 
unless they were supported by collateral evidence. 
After some further discussion on the subject, during which 
Mr. A. Cherry stated that the present list was withheld, that 
gentleman was re-appointed as Registrar. He then applied for 
a committee, consisting of Professors Simonds and Morton, and 
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