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THE VETERINARIAN, JUNE 1, 1846. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ue quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
The unprecedented length to which the Report of the General 
Meeting — as received from our own reporter — has run, together 
with the publication in full of the Annual Report of the Council, 
has occupied so large a portion of our present number, that but 
little space is left for other matters. The General Meeting was 
better attended than that of last year : there were sixty mem- 
bers present. At the conclusion of his opening address, the Pre- 
sident was reminded, that it would be expedient, conformably 
with custom on such occasions, to have read the minutes of the 
last General Meeting; and this was succeeded by a call for the 
reading of the Report of Council, a proceeding which seemed like 
taking up the time of the assembled members rather unnecessarily, 
seeing that it was the intention of the Council to publish their 
Report. No sooner, however, was the reading concluded than it 
became obvious the motion had been enforced to afford an oppor- 
tunity for making an attack — a plan of which had been got up, 
already cut and cried, upon paper — upon every thing and every 
person mentioned in the Report. Such sweeping indiscriminate 
censure, while it was certain to fail in its object, was equally 
certain to meet its reward in the shape of rebuke ; and rebuke it 
got, and of a character that will not readily pass away from the 
minds of those who were present to hear it. The result was, that 
the Report was carried by a glorious majority. 
Among the members assembled there were to us several strange 
faces. There was one in particular which attracted our attention. 
