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ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
The Annual Meeting of the members of the Veterinary- 
profession was held on Monday, the 4th ult., at the insti- 
tution, 10, Red Lion Square, London. 
W. Stockley, Esq., President in the Chair. 
The following were present : Messrs. Bailey sen. and 
jun., Batt, Braby, Broad, Burley, Cartledge, Cherry, 
Dickens, Field, Hall, Helmore, Henderson, Jones, Lepper, 
Lines, Lowe, Magennis, Mayer, Moon, Morton, Nice, 
Pritchard, Robinson, Silvester, Spooner, Turner, Vines, 
Wilkinson, Withers, Woodger, and the Secretary. 
The Secretary, Mr. E. W. Gabriel , read the advertisement 
convening the meeting, and also the minutes of the previous 
meeting, which were confirmed. 
He then read the following Abstract of the Proceedings 
of the Council for the past year. • 
Abstract of the Proceedings of the Council of the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons during the Year 1856-7. 
The ordinary routine of business, uninterrupted by any 
events of an exciting character, supplies but few data on 
which the Annual Report can enlarge. To say that the 
quarterly meetings have been duly attended — that the in- 
comings and outgoings of the College have been closely in- 
quired into — that the reports of the admission of new mem- 
bers into the profession, and the deaths of a few of the older 
practitioners have been regularly made — that donations to 
the Library and Museum have been received and acknow- 
ledged — that cheques have been drawn, leaving still a balance 
in hand — and that the arrangement of business at these 
meetings has been followed by pleasant professional gossips 
over the beverage “ which exhilarates but not inebriates,” — is 
all that the general summary of the year has to embrace. 
From the Registrar’s Report we learn that twelve deaths 
have occurred during the past year, being less than half 
the number reported in the preceding one. Among them 
we have to regret the loss of Samuel Peech, one of the 
oldest and most respected members of the profession, and 
one of the most indefatigable members of the Council ; he 
obtained his diploma in 1805, from which period, up to 
within a twelvemonth of his death, he was most actively 
engaged in his profession — commanding a practice of first 
