368 ROYAL COLLEGE OP VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
October, and the Committee will be obliged by all subscrip- 
tions being forwarded to them before that time. 
“ E. N. Gabriel, 
Honorary Secretary 
From the produce of this subscription a first-class por- 
trait in oil, by H. W. Pickersgill, R.A., was obtained ; and 
at the request of the Committee, Mr. Robinson, at the 
Quarterly Meeting in October last, undertook the gratifying 
task of presenting it to the profession, through the President 
and Council, to be placed in the Board-Room of the College. 
It was accepted, on behalf of the Council, by the President, 
in a manner that showed how fully he participated in the 
feelings which originated it. 
From the reports of the Registrar, we find that twenty- 
seven deaths have occurred during the past year. Among 
them is Mr. William Lacey, of Adbolton, one of the oldest 
members of the profession, and who at the time of his death 
was a Member of the Council; another is Mr. Robert Thom- 
son, of Beith, a Member of the portion of the Board of 
Examiners acting for Scotland ; and the third, in official 
connection with the College, is Mr. R. Taylor, of Bury St. 
Edmunds, who was a Vice-President in 1851. The number 
of pupils who have received their Diplomas during the 
year is fifty, making 562 who have passed the Board of 
Examiners since the obtainment of the Charter. The changes 
in the Register published in 1854 are already very consider- 
able, having been augmented to no small extent by the 
great demand for Veterinary Surgeons in the army occasioned 
by the war, which demand it will be found has been most 
satisfactorily met, most of the appointments made having 
given general satisfaction. The number at present on the 
Register is 1412. 
The Board of Examiners has met with its share of vicissi- 
tudes, death has not been sparing of its Members, for 
Bransby Cooper, Liston, McGregor, and Mercer, among the 
Medical Members ; Mayer, Sen., W. Percivall, Thomson, 
and Tindall, among the Veterinary, have been taken hence; 
and when to these w T e add the resignation of Stanley, Lizars, 
and Mayer, Jun., it will be apparent that no little care and 
selection w^ere required to preserve that degree of efficiency 
and weight so essential to the continued advancement of 
veterinary science. The more recent elections have been 
those of Messrs. Field and Lepper to the English; and 
Professor Miller, Drs. Dunsmore and Mori, and Messrs. 
