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formation of Bye-Laws and Regulations for the governance of the 
body politic and corporate. In the consideration of this important 
subject they kept steadily in view two distinct objects; first, 
justice to the present and future pupils of the two veterinary col- 
leges; and, secondly, the well-being and good of the profession. 
After much consideration, the Bye-Laws already before the pro- 
fession were adopted by the Council ; and although these are not 
such as they hope finally to make them, yet the results already 
derived from their adoption, and the manner in which they have 
been received by the profession, have been such as to afford the 
Council unmixed satisfaction. Immediately after the adoption of 
the Bye-Laws, the Council appointed a permanent Board of Ex- 
aminers, a board composed of gentlemen whose names stand high 
in the medical and veterinary professions. E. Stanley, Esq., Chair- 
man, Member of the Board of Examiners of the R. C. S. E. ; Prof. 
Brande, of the Royal Institution ; B. Cooper, Esq., of Guy’s and St. 
Thomas’s ; R. Liston, Esq., of the London University College ; 
Messrs. Percivall, J. Turner, W. Field, W. Goodwin, G. Baker, 
and E. N. Gabriel, for England ; and Drs. Knox and Mercer, of 
Edinburgh ; Drs. McGregor and Lyon, of Glasgow ; and Messrs. 
Williamson, Mather, Edinburgh ; Tindall, Glasgow ; Lyon, Forfar; 
Thomson, Beith ; with the veterinary surgeon of the regiment then 
stationed at Edinburgh, for Scotland. Their anxiety for the good 
of the profession, their labour for the advancement of veterinary 
science, and their desire to render the examinations such as the 
Council wish them to be, have given the greatest satisfaction, and 
the Council cannot refrain from expressing the sense they entertain 
of their valuable services. 
Aware of the great responsibility imposed upon them, and feel- 
ing most anxious to carry out the views of the Council, they have 
again and again deliberated on the best mode of ascertaining the 
extent of information possessed by those candidates who might ap- 
pear before them. Two points have received their especial con- 
sideration — the extent of the pupils’ knowledge of chemistry and 
of cattle pathology ; the first not only as applied to the know- 
ledge of medicines and the principles of veterinary prescriptions, 
but as applicable also to the nature of the various soils and the 
different kinds of manures, as possessing the most fertilizing pro- 
perties in their application to them. The great advantages that 
have already arisen from the combination of chemistry with agri- 
cultural operations are too well known to require further comment. 
The second, the knowledge of cattle pathology, is an object 
also of grave importance, for hitherto the diseases of cattle and 
other domesticated animals have been most lamentably neglected : 
the knowledge of this fact alone would have been sufficient 
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