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THE VETERINARIAN, JULY 1, 1845. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
The appearance of the First Report of the Council of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons will be hailed with delight 
by every well-wisher to the cause and interests of veterinary 
science. Now that we have become a chartered body — a repre- 
sentative body — a body that has, through virtue of its charter, de- 
puted and empowered certain of its members to conduct its affairs, 
we have a right to ask and to be informed in what manner and to 
what end our concerns have been managed by the said deputies. 
The Report is intended to convey this information ; and it does so 
in a straight-forward, business-like, and, we may add, satisfactory 
manner. In short, the Report is — what it ought to be — simply a 
narrative of the proceedings of the Council from their first down 
to their last sitting ; and it is drawn up in a form and style which 
convey to us good earnest for there being no lack of talent and 
ability in the Secretary department of the Royal College of Veteri- 
nary Surgeons. 
Two subjects stand out in bold relief in the Report : one is, the 
By-laws; the other, the Examinations. The By-laws were 
published at length in our last number ; and we can only, in regard 
to them, repeat now what we said before, which was, that to our 
own knowledge no pains have been spared in their concoction ; and 
that, supposing they do not turn out all that the profession could 
wish or desire, or all that those who framed them meant them to be, 
blame the inexperience , not the intentions of the Council. “Rome 
was not built in a day;” neither can “the infant institution” be 
expected to rise all at once into absolute perfection. 
Respecting the Examinations, inviting as the subject has been 
to us, we have on principle held our peace on it, so long as we 
knew experiments were making for working out the most desirable 
plan of conducting them. Now, however, that publicity has been 
given to a plan of late adopted, with which we hear every member 
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