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ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 
The minutes of the last council meeting having been read 
and confirmed, the accounts were audited and found correct. 
The balance in favour of the association was <£41 9<s. 10^., 
and all outstanding debts disbursed. 
Presentations to the library of the works of Mr. Bracy 
Clarke, through Professor Spooner, and of a f Handbook of 
Veterinary Operations/ by Professor Hering, of Stuttgart, 
through Professor Simonds, were announced from their 
respective authors. 
Resolved l — That the thanks of the association be presented 
to these gentlemen for their donations. Still further addi- 
tions were directed to be made to the library. 
The prize essays having been read by a committee appointed 
for the purpose, it was resolved unanimously that the one 
bearing the motto 
ee SAUVITER SED FORTITER-” 
merits the silver medal. 
The author, on opening the envelope that accompanied 
it, was ascertained to be, Mr. James Irvine Lupton. 
Resolved — That to Mr. F. J. B. Jones be awarded a silver 
medal for the best anatomical preparation. 
The essays discussed during the past session having been 
examined by a committee, it was resolved that to Messrs. 
W. Burt, A. E. Clarke, W. A. Cox, H. Cutting, C. Dayus 
and H. Flower, be awarded the especial thanks of the asso- 
ciation, by which they rank as Honorary Fellows. 
Resolved — That the subject of the prize essay for the 
coming session be ; The general and descriptive anatomy, with 
the physiology, of the skin and its appendages, of the horse. 
Resolved — that the anatomical preparation be : The injected 
blood-vessels of the genital organs of the male horse, in situ. 
One third of the council having retired, in accordance 
with the law, they were unanimously re-elected, as were the 
other officers; and thanks being given to the president, and 
honorary secretary, the meeting broke up. 
W. J. T. Morton, Ron. Sec. 
ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 
War Office, Pall Mall; Oct. 2, 1857. 
7 tk Dragoon Guards. — Vet. Surg. William Varley, from the 
Military Train, to be Vet. Surg. vice Poett, who exchanges. 
Oct. 20, 1857. 
Royal Artillery. — Vet. Surg. Joseph Ball, to be Vet. Surg, 
vice J. D. Harrison, resigned. 
