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timents by writing, and the epistolary correspondence, including 
advice he had received from them, he could never forget. It was 
only an act of justice to these gentlemen to say so much; it was 
due to them, and he, the President, felt bound to express it. 
Professor Dick then stated that he should repeat the protest 
which he had offered last year ; and having done that, he would 
inquire whether there were any reports of the proceedings of the 
Council to be produced] As this was the first General Meeting 
of the body under the Charter, he considered that they ought to 
know something of the proceedings that had been going on in the 
interval. 
Mr . Mayer wished to know whether Mr, Dick was desirous of 
having every Minute read of what had taken place since the last 
time they had met ] If so, he doubted whether there would be time 
for the Secretary to read them. He would, however, offer a sug- 
gestion to the meeting, which was, that the minutes of the Council 
should be published in The VETERINARIAN. He, Mr. Mayer, was 
sorry that this had not been done before. As a representative body, 
they were bound to make known their proceedings in such a way 
as would be most accessible to the profession. He hoped that this 
would be borne in mind in future. 
Professor Dick would be most happy to second a motion to that 
effect. If the Council agreed to send an account of their proceed- 
ings to The Veterinarian he should be quite satisfied. 
Mr. Vines begged to propose that each individual in the profes- 
sion should have the printed copy of the Bye-laws sent to him. 
Though an old subscriber, no such copy had ever been sent to him, 
while they had been sent to the members of agricultural and other 
societies. There had not even been a list of the Council sent to 
the members ; and he did consider that the members ought not to 
be slighted in that way. He felt himself personally slighted in 
having no copy. 
The President. — If I understand Mr. Vines, he complains that 
the Bye-laws have not been sent to him. It has not been a rule to 
send the Bye-laws to every person. 
Mr. Vines. — Why, then, should they be sent to some and not 
to others ] 
A Member. — The Bye-laws are only sent to members of the 
Council. 
Mr. Vines. — They ought to be sent to the members as well as 
to the Council. They should be published in a journal*, as there 
were men in the country who knew nothing of the Bye-laws. He 
was himself an old member of the profession, and had always en- 
They were published in our last Number. — E d. 
