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for his conduct at the Council, by telling him that as a member he 
sat there in two characters ; and he was prepared to contend that 
there were members of the Council who were trying to upset the 
very Charter under which they had been appointed, which he 
called hypocrisy of the blackest dye. 
Mr. Cherry , senior, said the vituperation with which he had 
been assailed by Mr. Mayhew was false, and he should treat it 
with the contempt it deserved. 
Professor Dick moved as an amendment “ that the Report be 
recommitted, and that all the correspondence named in the Report 
be published with it.” 
Mr. Cherry, senior, seconded the amendment. 
Mr. Simonds treated Mr. Mayhew’s violence, which had been 
directed against him, with contempt, and read a letter from that 
gentleman while a pupil of his at the Royal Veterinary College, 
and concluded by calling on the meeting to look at that picture 
and at this. He had received a testimonial from 73 out of the 80 
pupils (a voice cried, No ! no !) attending at the time, and he should 
disgrace the position he held in society if he took personal notice 
of the attacks made on him. 
Mr. A. Cherry , in explaining the proceedings of the Council, 
expressed his regrets that Professor Dick had not entered into the 
explanations he had now done at an earlier period, either last year 
or the year before, which would have prevented much of what had 
taken place that day. The rule was, in selecting Examiners, to 
take those of the same country to which they were appointed ; 
and if the lists contained the names of persons not competent for 
the office, the onus laid on those who had furnished the lists. He 
thought the correspondence ought not to be published, as its pub- 
lication would not tend to the credit of some of the parties who 
had written the communications. 
Mr. Cherry, senior, considered it but fair that the letters of 
Dr. Knox and Mr. Mather ought to be read. All he (Mr. Cherry) 
knew of the Report before it was read that day was, that he heard 
it read by the Secretary at the Council at a meeting that he 
attended, and that it was carried with acclamation, and lie was told 
that he should have a copy, which he had certainly received at 
half past eleven o’clock that day. The Report was, he contended, a 
series of imputations from end to end, while, in fact, the Council 
were only expressing their own opinions. He therefore thought, 
that if the Council could only do away with what they had pre- 
viously done, it would be the greatest boon the profession could 
desire. He wished to know what portion of the examiners’ fees 
had gone amongst the Council, and what had been done by them 
