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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE 
Professor Dick still contended that they ought to act as all 
other deliberative bodies did. They ought to act like men of 
business. Was there, he would ask, any cause for secrecy ? Had 
any thing been done by the Council “ under the rose,” that the 
minutes were not to be read ? 
The motion was then put and carried, and 
Mr. Gabriel , the Secretary, read the minutes of the previous 
meeting. At their conclusion, 
Professor Dick said he humbly considered that there was some- 
thing wanting on the minutes just read. He had at the previous 
meeting moved and carried that a publication of the proceedings 
of the Council during the previous year should be made, and he 
had noticed no mention of it in the proceedings read by the 
Secretary. 
The Secretary re-read that portion of the minutes which related 
to the proceedings of the Council. 
Professor Dick thought there was another report which ought 
also to have been read. 
Mr. Cherry did not see that the reading of that Report was 
necessary. 
Professor Dick considered that it was necessary, as it ought to 
have followed the reading of the minutes. He would therefore 
move that the Report be brought forward and read. 
The President said a copy of the Report alluded to had been 
circulated. 
Cries from several parts of the room, of “ I have not had it — 
“ I have not had it! ” 
The Secretary said it had been published in The VETERINARIAN 
and The VETERINARY Record, the two literary organs of the 
profession. 
Mr. Mayer said the meeting seemed to have forgotten what 
they had met for. They had met for special purposes, viz. the 
election of six members of the Council, in room of the six gentle- 
men going out by rotation. They ought at least to do that first, 
before they entertained the question of receiving the Report of the 
Council. (Hear, hear.) 
Professor Dick was surprised at such an observation. Why, 
then, had they sent for gentlemen from all parts of the country, if 
they were not to be informed how the College was progressing? 
It seemed to him most extraordinary that there should be a Report 
of which they were not to know. (Hear, hear.) 
Mr. Thrnpp thought the reading of the Report was quite unne- 
cessary. The Council had been elected as the representatives of 
the body of members, and ought, therefore, to be trusted. 
Professor Dick contended that the College being, as the Presi- 
