SITTINGS OF THE COUNCIL. 
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Pending this state of uncertainty as regards the immediate effects 
and prospective utility of aetherization we are forced to confess 
ourselves yet to be in, veterinarians cannot but feel themselves 
under no slight obligations to any of their professional brothers 
who will be at the trouble and cost — for experiments of the kind 
are not made without both labour and expense — of a course of 
direct experimentation. And we are happy to have it in our 
power to point to two individuals — Messrs. Henderson and Cherry — 
who are thus at present commendably engaged, and upon whom, no 
less on account of their standing and experience as veterinary 
surgeons than their known expertness and perseverance in mat- 
ters of an experimental nature, the profession can safely rely. And 
from the steady, unprejudiced manner in which these gentlemen are 
pursuing their investigations, there can be little doubt but that in 
their hands the subject will, in the end, be reduced to its practical 
applicability. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL 
COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Sitting of March 31, 1847. 
Present — the President, the Secretary, Messrs. Arthur 
Cherry, James Turner, Goodwin, Ernes, Field, Hen- 
derson, Cherry, Sen. 
The Minutes having been read and confirmed, 
Mr. Arthur Cherry , as the Hon. Sec. to the Committee, read 
the Report from the Registration Committee, and entered into a 
statement in detail explanatory of the proceedings, and the grounds 
on which the data contained in the Report were founded. 
A discussion ensued on these statements, embracing the general 
nature of registration, and the statistics of the body corporate, in 
so far as they could, at present, be ascertained; the members 
present, with a single exception, expressing their gratification at 
the results which had emanated from the labours of the Committee, 
though still far from complete, as shewing matter of an entirely 
new character. 
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