326 MEETING OF THE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE 
tion was one of much importance. This body had been selected to 
attend to the business of the College ; and in doing so, they had 
looked to the benefit that would accrue to the body of the profession, 
and, without looking to the right or to the left, they had done their 
duty, and the provisions of the Charter had been strictly adhered 
to by their officers. 
He, the President, could not say too much for the attention, care, 
and pains exerted by these gentlemen, who had given up to the 
interests of the College not merely their care but their time, which 
was valuable in the extreme. To have attended as they had done, 
they must have left at home urgent cases, in which they felt the 
greatest anxiety ; they had, nevertheless, always attended when- 
ever they were required to do so for the benefit of the profession. 
A Board of Examiners had been formed, both for London and for 
Scotland. He had the pleasure of knowing the Examiners elected 
for London; he had seen the manner in which they had performed 
their duty both to the profession and the public. As regarded the 
Examining Board for Scotland, he was not so fortunate as to know 
the gentlemen who had been elected ; they had, however, done 
their duty. Mr. Gabriel, who had attended at the last examina- 
tion, would tell them how it had been conducted. 
The Bye-laws were now, he was happy to say, complete, and the 
Council had acted up to them without fear or affection. And on 
the way in which they had been drawn up, he was proud and gra- 
tified to say that they had been complimented, not only by mem- 
bers of their own body, but by members of the sister science. Nor 
did it rest there ; they had had compliments paid them upon the 
subject by ministers of state, and others whose opinion was of the 
utmost value, and who had not hesitated to express, that these laws 
were calculated to do honor to the profession, and to ensure the 
science of its future members. He was quite sure that the meeting 
would be as much gratified to hear this as it was gratifying to him 
to express it. 
They were called together that day to elect six members of the 
Council, in room of those going out. He had already told them his 
feelings as regarded the attention which had been paid to their 
interests by the members of the Council generally. It was their 
duty to elect six members to that body, and he would tell them 
that they had the power to re-elect those who had performed their 
duty so well. It would be but doing an act of justice to convey 
to these gentlemen their acknowledgment of the efficient way in 
which they had performed their duties. Many of them, it was true, 
lived at a distance from London ; and in those instances where 
they had no opportunity of attending personally to matters which 
had been brought under their notice, they had conveyed their sen- 
