354 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
who composed the Council such intelligence could not be received 
but with unfeigned pleasure : at the same time, let the by-laws 
have met with what reception they might, for our own part we 
feel no hesitation whatever in saying, the several members of the 
Council conscientiously did their best to render them, in confor- 
mity with the Charter of Incorporation, of the greatest service and 
efficiency to the profession at large. They had no sinister — no 
personal interests to serve : they had a duty entrusted to them by 
the general body of the profession, and they exerted themselves 
to perform that duty in a manner the most satisfactory to all parties 
concerned. 
Professor Dick very properly required to have produced minutes 
of the proceedings of the Council. We say “very properly,” 
because no reasonable objection could have been raised to such 
a motion : at the same time, it ought to be remembered, that the 
Council have not, as yet, any salaried secretary : the gentleman 
who has officiated as secretary, and who has — it must on all hands 
be allowed — conducted the duties thereof in a manner no less 
creditable to himself than profitable to the cause he has engaged 
himself in, must not be pressed too hard, so long as he continues 
virtually to be an honorary officer. However, it was suggested 
that, in future, some account of these proceedings should be pub- 
lished in The Veterinarian : should which suggestion be ap- 
proved by the Council, for our own part, all we can say, is, that 
we shall at all times feel happy in appropriating a place to them. 
Reports continue to reach us, that influential persons connected 
with our veterinary schools are still at work, and have — vis unita 
fortior — been working in combination, endeavouring to obtain some 
fresh charter. Whatsoever they may succeed in obtaining cannot 
be intended for the members of the profession : they are already 
in possession of their Charter, and are so far satisfied with it, inas- 
much as it holds out fair promise that every thing they may require 
further, can, and in the course of time will, arise out of it. The 
charter or charters, therefore, the schools are longing for must be 
one for their own especial use : that it can be for the benefit of 
the professional body is quite impossible, seeing it is on all sides 
allowed that they have got, or shall get, all they require out of 
the present Charter. 
