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GENERAL MEETING. 
The faschia transversalis is situated between the peritoneum and 
muscles of the abdomen, the yellow elastic fibrous tissue isYound 
between the skin and abdominal muscles : the latter structure has 
not any thing to do with the formation of the internal abdominal 
ring, but the faschia transversalis materially contributes thereto, 
and forms an infundibuliform process round the spermatic cord, 
being, in fact, one of its coverings. There is a total difference be- 
tween the two, both in tissue, relation, and attachments. Mr. 
Percivall and I cannot be speaking of corresponding structures ; 
nor do I find in Mr. Percivall’s work any description which will 
apply to the yellow elastic fibrous tissue I casually mentioned in 
my paper last month. 
I am, gentlemen, your’s sincerely, 
John Barlow, V. S. 
Edinburgh Vet. College, 
May 18, 1846. 
*** By this letter, Mr. Barlow has made that perfectly clear 
which did not appear so to us in his original paper. The tissue he 
describes we consider to belong to the aponeurosis of the external 
oblique muscle. — Edit. Vet. 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF 
VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
On Monday the 4th instant, the third annual meeting of the Mem- 
bers of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons was held, in 
accordance with their charter, at the Freemasons’ Tavern, Great 
Queen-street, Lincoln’s Inn-fields. 
At half-past one o’clock the chair was taken by the President, 
Mr. Thomas Turner, of Regent-street, about sixty of the members 
being then present. 
The President, in opening the business of the day, said that was 
the third occasion he had had the honour to meet the members 
of the College, and had to congratulate them on having obtained a 
Charter of Incorporation, the objects of which were to further the 
interests of the veterinary profession. He felt that they ought to 
be most grateful to their Sovereign for having granted them such 
a boon. He could assure the meeting that the Council that had 
been appointed by the body of members had been most persevering 
in the performance of the arduous duties of their office ; and sure 
he was that any other body of men would have found much 
difficulty in displaying greater talent than had been shewn by 
them in their exertions for the solid and enduring welfare of the- 
