EDITORIAL REMARKS. 
479 
The reports of the Sittings of the Council of the Veterinary 
Profession will be read with interest. The passing of Mr. W. 
Arthur Cherry’s motion, that every member of our Royal College 
have the privilege of being present during the discussions of the 
Council , is one we feel assured that will give complete satisfac- 
tion to the profession at large. There could be — there ever has 
been — but one feeling prevalent among the members of Council 
on the question : — it was, and has all along been, their wish, their 
earnest desire, that their words and works should become uni- 
versally known. At the same time there was no occasion to 
express this in their by-laws ; indeed, such would not have been 
correct : it comes forth as an act of Council granting a favour or 
privilege to the members of the general body to which they (the 
latter) possess no claim or right through virtue of their charter. 
We congratulate our worthy Secretary on having managed to 
put into circulation seven hundred solicitations for subscriptions. 
We must beg and entreat those receiving them to remember that the 
affairs of the veterinary profession, no more than those of the na- 
tion, can be conducted without supplies. Were the House of 
Commons to withhold its pecuniary grants, the wheels of govern- 
ment must come to a stand-still; neither can the wheels of our 
professional machinery keep on turning unless the body supply 
the wherewithal. The Members of Council are doing their work 
assiduously, and without remuneration ; the Committees without 
pay have enacted their part ; the President, at great sacrifice of 
time and at no little cost of mental and corporal exertion, has like- 
wise gratuitously done his ; will, then, the members of the pro- 
fession refuse an annual tribute ] Will they see their chartered 
body wither for want of aliment] We will answer for them — 
THEY WILL NOT. 
We have received at a late hour the Finance Report of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, by which it appears that 
there is a considerable deficit against the College ; but we hope 
that the profession at large will not let this remain as a reproach 
upon them ; but that they are willing to defray expenses incurred 
in carrying out that which is for the mutual benefit of every mem- 
ber of the body corporate. 
