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ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
REPORT of the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Sur- 
geons to the Members of the Profession, published in accord- 
ance with Minute of Council , dated 5th June, 1845, and being as 
follows : — “ That the Report now read be adopted, and that the 
Editors of 1 The Veterinarian and 1 Veterinary Record ’ be 
requested to insert the same in their respective Journals.” 
E. N. Gabriel, Secretary. 
The Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Sur- 
geons have great pleasure in presenting to the members of the 
profession the first Report of their proceedings, a measure they 
have been induced to adopt, in order that the utmost publicity may 
be given to the arrangements they have thought it essential to 
make for the advancement and good government of the body of 
which they are the representatives, and for maturing the liberal 
and enlightened views contained in the Charter of the infant Insti- 
tution. 
It has been a subject of sincere congratulation to the Council 
that the Charter itself has met with the unqualified approbation of 
nearly every member of the profession, and not from them only, 
but from the members of the medical profession also, as well as 
from the heads of departments well qualified to form an opinion on 
the subject, but who could scarcely have been expected to have 
had either inclination or leisure to examine its merits. By some 
of its own members proofs have been given of the sincerity of 
their approbation too significant to be mistaken : we allude to the 
loans so handsomely made when pecuniary resources were indis- 
pensable, and to the liberal donations with which those loans were 
followed up by various practitioners ; and it is a pleasure as well 
as a duty of the Council to return their sincere thanks to those 
gentlemen who so liberally came forward, and they doubt not they 
shall ultimately have to do the same to every member of the pro- 
fession, although, as yet, there are some whose names they regret 
not seeing in the list of contributors. 
On entering on the duties of their office, your Council felt that 
two points required their immediate attention : the first was, the 
making such temporary arrangements and appointing such Offi- 
cers as were essential to the working out of the Charter. The 
arrangements made, may or may not have been the best that could 
have been adopted; for, in carrying out any new and important 
measure, without any precedent to work by or time to give mature 
