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also received with regret, and his services specially remembered. 
The necessity of a perfectly competent substitute to fill his seat 
was duly considered by your Council, and the result of that con- 
sideration was the unanimous election of Mr. Mayer, of Newcastle, 
in his place. It is most gratifying, however, to your Council, as 
they are sure it will be to yourselves, that both these gentlemen 
stated they were ready at all times, both personally and pecu- 
niarily, to forward the views of the College, and that the highest 
pleasure and gratification they could receive would be in so doing. 
Mr. Liston, another highly valued member of the Board, resigned 
in consequence of his evenings being so fully occupied by his elec- 
tion as a member of the Board of Examiners to the College of 
Surgeons : he has been replaced by Mr. Solly, of St. Thomas’s. 
The attention of your Council has never been withdrawn from 
those privileges and immunities so anxiously looked for by, and of 
so much importance to, our professional body : true it is they have 
not as yet been obtained, and, unfortunately, equally true is it that 
the cause of their non-obtainment is not an extrinsic one, but one 
engendered and kept up among ourselves. So long as there are 
parties who will seek for exclusive and partial privileges, which 
not only cannot benefit, but in which the profession at large can- 
not even participate, — so long is there a groundwork left by the 
cupidity of the few for the refusal of great and permanent advan- 
tages to the many. The time, however, is near at hand when this 
state of suspense and indecision will be terminated ; and then your 
Council are equally sanguine of obtaining the objects of your wishes, 
as they will be prepared to adopt every measure for their speedy 
realization. 
Your Council cannot, if they would, forget — for every meeting 
but too painfully reminds them of the fact — that the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons is still a houseless body. No local habita- 
tion has yet been found in which your elected representatives can 
assemble to ameliorate your condition and forward your interests. 
Nor is this the only evil ; for libraries and museums, which have 
already been offered for your acceptance, they have been com- 
pelled to decline, solely for want of accommodation. Can a cause 
of regret, so incompatible with the convenience and so derogatory 
to the dignity of the body corporate, be much longer tolerated I 
Your Council would fain hope not ; but rather trust that, while we 
are one and all actively pressing forward in the cause of science and 
