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selves ; and exclusive enough, we have a notion, give them time , 
they will find such charters turn out to be ; but, for our present 
original Charter, after it has been granted by our most gracious 
Sovereign, at the express recommendation of her Secretary for 
Home Affairs, that must be held sacred from the State pruning- 
knife. 
We quite agree with Mr. W. A. Cherry, that what Mr. Phil- 
lips has asked for should be expressly given him, and that we 
ought to be cautious how we offer him more; and, farther, that, 
supposing it to be advisable to send a “ memorial” to the Home 
Office, praying our Charter may continue intact, such memorial 
should be made a separate proceeding. It would, undoubtedly, 
lessen its weight to send it in the same packet with the let- 
ter, &c. 
We are happy to find steps are being taken to draw up petitions 
to both Houses of Parliament. The recess will afford ample time 
for their judicious concoction. 
There is one other business — and that not the least in import- 
ance — just now engaging the attention of Council; which is the 
REGISTRATION of the names of the members of the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons. It will be remembered that registration 
formed one of the earliest occupations of the Veterinary Com- 
mittee, and that, with the materials they had and were able to 
collect, they drew up a more extensive and correct “ List of 
Veterinary Surgeons” than had before existed. After all, how- 
ever, the list was any thing but perfect. And when there comes 
to be considered the difficulties they encountered in obtaining 
information, and how scanty that information too often proved, 
together with the short time they gave themselves to accomplish 
their work, the Committee will not be blamed for not producing a 
more correct and finished work of registry. 
On the present occasion, however, it is to be hoped, and indeed 
expected, that the labour will be attended with more success. 
The Council are issuing a Circular as extensively as circumstances 
will enable them to do, and they have framed the Circular in such 
a form that every Member to whom it is sent will find no trouble 
