288 TRANSACTIONS AT THE GENERAL MEETING. 
fear but little — or absolutely less than little — nothing — remains in 
the hands of the Treasurer. What we should propose is, that 
an annual subscription be forthwith entered into by the members 
of the College — say a guinea or half-a-guinea per annum — or 
make one the maximum , the other the minimum subscription : an 
arrangement which, it is hoped, every member, feeling a pride for 
his name and standing in society, will joyfully enter into. Surely, 
out of pretty nearly a thousand members, a sufficient yearly sum 
might be raised to take a house, or part of a house, somewhere in 
the metropolis, wherein the members might hold their meetings 
and have their examinations, and*to which, in the course of time, 
might be appended museum, library, &c. Formerly the College 
of Surgeons, now so proudly rearing its head in Lincoln’s-Inn 
Fields, was represented by an inferior building in the Old Bailey. 
And the College of Physicians, the present stately pile in Pall 
Mall East, was once but a mean«looking house in Warwick Lane. 
Why, then, should not the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 
one day experience similar aggrandisement 1 It needs but for the 
profession to lay the first brick ; time and perseverance will achieve 
the rest. Let us then, sinking all vain, puerile, and futile bicker- 
ings, as members of one common profession, unite together in one 
common cause, and raise a structure in representation and honour 
of our infant Charter of Incorporation ; — let us shew those from 
whose hands we received the Charter that, at least, we are not 
unworthy of the boon; — let us, in fine, look forward to the day 
when we shall lift up our heads as we pass to view a fabric not 
unworthy the name of THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETE- 
RINARY SURGEONS! 
One other important question, we repeat, will engage the atten- 
tion of the General Meeting ; and that is, The PROFESSIONAL 
ANNUITY Fund. To what has been said — and so energetically 
and appealingly said — on this subject by Mr. Baker and others, 
we can have nothing to add, save the hope that the members pre- 
sent at the meeting will be prepared to lend a favourable ear to an 
address which — we have reason for believing — Mr. Baker is pre- 
pared to make to them on Monday next. 
