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kinds existing separately in the same animal, as in Thibet 
shawl wool goats and sheep. 
Permanent hair or wool is oftener gelatinous. Though the 
other is sometimes permanent also, as well as deciduous. Fine 
hair or wool is always most abundant and most albuminous as 
animals are exposed to cold. Wools, the greater bulk of which 
is gelatinous, become similar in texture to finer wools when 
deprived by chemical processes of part of the gelatine, not only 
in the raw state, but when made up into yarn or cloth, &c. ; and 
this in as many days as it would take years to effect the same 
alterations in the qualities of wools by breeding. For obvious 
reasons, however, the processes were not given into the Exhi- 
bition along with the samples. Fine wools are now so abundant 
that this process is, perhaps, hardly desirable. We refer, only 
as physiologists, to the facts here brought forward : we, as ve- 
terinarians, being practically acquainted with the summer and 
winter coats of asses, horses, and cattle : a subject that has 
always been of great interest to horsemen, and which, in these 
experiments, is chemically demonstrated to arise from difference 
in the component parts of hair or wool at different seasons. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL 
COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Sitting of October 8th, 1851. 
Quarterly Meeting. 
Present — The PRESIDENT (in the Chair); Messrs. Braby, 
Cherry, A. Cherry, Dickens (Kimbolton), Ernes, 
Henderson, Stockley (Royal Artillery), James Turner, 
Wilkinson, Professor Spooner; and the Secretary. 
Mr. A. Cherry read the following report from the Exemption 
Bill Committee : — 
(REPORT). 
Report from the Committee for obtaining an Act for Exemp- 
tions and Privileges for Veterinary Surgeons. 
The Committee, under the direction of Mr. Jagoe, placed in 
the hands of Lord Beaumont the Bill as assented to in Council. 
Petitions were also prepared and sent to different members of 
