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The President then put the motion, when sixteen hands were 
held up for it, and none against it. 
Mr. Field proposed a vote of thanks to the President for his able 
conduct in the chair during the business of the day. 
Mr. Cherry seconded it, although there were parts of the day’s 
proceedings that he had been opposed to and disapproved. The 
motion having been carried, 
The President briefly returned thanks, and at half-past 6 o’clock 
the meeting broke up. 
SECOND REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL 
COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS 
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE PROFESSION. 
The Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Sur- 
geons have the honour of presenting this their second nnual 
Report to the members of the profession assembled this day under 
their Royal Charter of Incorporation, a Charter granted by the 
gracious condescension of Her Majesty, which has emancipated 
us from the grade of a nameless and unrecognised avocation, and 
enabled us to take a position among not only the useful and re- 
cognised, but also the liberal and scientific professions of the age ; 
which has given us a name — may it soon be said both “ a local 
habitation and a name” — and contains in its provisions such sim- 
plicity of arrangement and liberality of views that it extracts from 
every thinking mind the highest commendation. 
Your Council, impressed with the correctness of these views, 
conceive they are acting most cordially up to their spirit by pre- 
senting, on this the day of our annual general meeting, a Report 
of their proceedings to their professional brethren and consti- 
tuents. 
Your Secretary states, that he has been indirectly informed — 
for he has received no official communication to that effect — that 
an error of a single word was made by him in his Report to the 
Council of the proceedings of the Board of Examiners in Edin- 
burgh in 1845, and embodied in the first annual Report : that 
error is stated to have been the misplacement of the word “ taught” 
instead of “ examined,” in a protest made by Professor Dick 
during those proceedings : he, the Secretary, adds, that it is just 
possible such a mistake might have been made, and, if so, regrets 
the fact. This statement is received without further remark by 
your Council. 
