ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 305 
Sir, 311, Regent Street, September 7, 1846. 
I have the honour of forwarding to you the four accompanying documents — 
The Report of the interview with Mr. Manners Sutton — The Report of the 
interview of the Deputation with the Governors of the Royal Veterinary Col- 
lege — The Charter, with the alterations proposed to be made therein by the 
Governors, and — The Reply of the Council to those proposed alterations ; 
and in them will be found the information you did me the honour to require 
from me. 
I have to honour to be, 
Sir, 
Your most obedient servant, 
To S. M. Phillips , Esq., Thos. Turner. 
The report of the interview with Mr. Manners Sutton has 
already been laid before you, but may be here repeated, to com- 
plete the account : it took place the 24th of November, 1845 
Your President has to report, that an interview has taken place with Mr. 
Manners Sutton, who at the commencement remarked, that he had requested 
it upon the understanding that the Council had agreed to certain alterations 
being made in the Charter. The President, however, begged to remind Mr. 
Manners Sutton that no such acquiescence had been given. Upon which that 
gentleman declined entering into any particulars of the views of Sir James 
Graham, and the interview closed. 
Thos. Turner, President, 
on behalf of the Deputation. 
The other documents alluded to will be found under their respec- 
tive headings. 
Your Council did not lose sight of a topic of great importance — 
the revenue of the College — touched on but lightly from the late- 
ness of the hour at the last Annual General Meeting ; and during 
the ensuing month seven hundred circulars were issued, stating 
the depressed state of the funds, and soliciting an annual subscrip- 
tion of not less than ten shillings for their improvement. The 
result of that application will be given you by the Treasurer; and 
it is to be hoped that the list of subscriptions for this year will 
more than compensate for the deficiency of that of the last. 
Early, also, last year your Council unanimously decided that 
their meetings should be thrown open to all members of the pro- 
fession. A full report of their proceedings had been laid before 
you in the first and second annual reports for the two previous 
years ; but in order to do away with every idea of secresy, to ex- 
terminate every ground of suspicion, as well as to silence the charges 
of neglect and misconduct, and prove at once to the body corporate 
and politic that every member honoured by the election of that 
