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THE VETERINARIAN, MAY 1, 1846. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
Our professional subscribers will hardly have had time to 
peruse the present number of our Journal ere they will find them- 
selves summoned to attend the Annual General Meeting of the 
Members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, held on 
Monday, the 4th instant, at the Freemasons’ Tavern, whither, we 
hope and trust, as many of them will wend their way as shall not 
through business, illness, or unreasonable distance, be prevented. 
Since the last meeting, matters of great importance to the char- 
tered body have transpired, of which it will be the duty of the 
Council, in their Annual Report, to inform the members. The 
Charter has undergone another year of trial — of, we might say, 
ordeal. Powerful efforts have been made to alter it, to overturn 
it : still it exists — has indeed passed unscathed through the fire, 
and, like so much refined gold, now shines with yet a brighter 
lustre in our eyes than even it possessed before. At its first cre- 
ation, without going the unwise length of pronouncing it faultless, 
we declared the Charter, in our opinion, to be a good one ; since, 
however, we have come to learn the nature and extent of the altera- 
tions proposed to be made in it, and since we have seen what a broil 
and bubble the surgeons have been, and still are in, about their 
charter, we must confess, for our own part, that the goodness we at 
the first conceded to it has increased to excellence. The beauty of 
our Charter consists in its representative character — in its giving 
every member of the profession a voice and a vote in all great 
transactions affecting the general body — and in placing at their entire 
control the election of that council by which all matters of ordinary 
or minor concern are to be regulated. Its ugly features — ugly at 
least to those who so regard them — are such provisions in it as 
deprive the veterinary schools of those privileges of which they 
never ought to have been in the possession, and never would have 
