GENERAL MEETING. 357 
It had evidently seen more years than the majority of the others, 
and yet it was looking hearty and fresh, and seemed as though it 
could smile with the best of us. And, moreover, there was about 
the person to which the said face belonged, altogether a gentle- 
manly deportment, as well as venerableness of aspect, which 
prompted our curiosity to make inquiries who the member 
was:— It was Mr. Mills, THE FATHER OF THE VETERINARY 
Profession ! 
The length to which the angry and needless discussion on the 
Report ran compelled the President to defer to too late an hour 
the important question to be considered by the General Meeting, 
of raising funds for the recruitment of the exchequer of the 
Chartered Coliege. Several members had, in consequence, unfor- 
tunately departed before that business came on. By those who 
remained, however, the call was met in a truly manly and 
generous spirit, many names being at once put down as annual 
subscribers of sovereign^ and half-sovereigns ; a list to which we 
hope before long to have to record considerable additions. 
Mr. Baker performed his promise. He brought the Annuity 
Fund question before the meeting ; but he brought it for the 
present simply pro forma. Under the circumstances of the un- 
flourishing state of the finances of the general body, and the late- 
ness of the hour before the question could be broached, it was on 
all hands deemed inadvisable on the present occasion to proceed 
with it. 
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