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ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Mr. Lepper’s appointment, because we believe that there are 
few among us who are better able to practically examine the 
pupils on the Pathology of Cattle, and none who will labour 
more earnestly to fit himself for the responsible duties of 
his position. 
ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
At the Annual General Meeting of the Profession which 
took place on May 5th, at 10, Red Lion Square, there were 
present: — Messrs. Austin, Batt, Bowles, Broad, Brown, 
Burley, Cherry, Cooper, Dickens, Ernes, Field, sen and jun., 
Henderson, Jex, Jones, Legrew, Lowe, Megennis, Moon, 
Morton, Pritchard, senior and junior, Robinson, Silvester, 
Simonds, Stockley, Wallis, Wilkinson, Woodger, sen. and 
jun., and the Secretary. 
W. Field, Esq., President, occupied the Chair. 
The chief business of the day consisted in the election of 
six members of the Council, in the place of James Turner, 
Jno. Legrew, Richard Pritchard, Samuel Peech, George 
Varnell, and William Stockley, who retired by rotation, and 
one in the place of the late Mr. Lacey. The ballot being 
declared, it was found to have resulted in the re-election of 
the above-named as councillors for the ensuing four years, 
and of Mr. Jno. Jones in the place of Mr. Lacey. 
The subjoined report was then read ; and after the usual 
vote of thanks to the President and other officers of the 
College, the meeting broke up, all lamenting the little interest 
which the profession apparently takes in the working of its 
charter. 
In the evening of the same day, a dinner in honour of 
the retiring President, took place at the Freemasons 5 Tavern. 
Mr. W. Robinson, V.S., Tam worth, filled the Chair, and 
Mr. W. Burley, V.S., Leicester, the Vice-chair. The din- 
ner was all that could be desired, everything passing off 
most pleasurably, except that again we had to regret the 
want of a greater number being present, to show our 
unity and our strength. 
We are somewhat at a loss to devise what best to do 
to counteract this increasing declension, if we except the 
measures we have elsewhere alluded to ; for even when 
royalty has mingled amongst us, there has not been that 
