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deem necessary to the furtherance of our great and useful 
object. TJiis, and neither adulation nor vituperation, is the 
reviewer’s legitimate vocation ; a vocation in which we hope 
to acquit ourselves in proportion to the purity and consistency 
of the motives with which we are devoted to it. 
ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Council Meeting, January 17. 
Present — The President, Messrs. Braby, Burley, Ernes, 
Goodwin, Mayer, Peech, Sylvester, Turner; 
Professors Spooner, Simonds, and Morton, Treasurer, 
and Mr. Gabriel, Secretary. 
W. Field, Esq., the President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and con- 
firmed. 
Letters were read from Mr. T. W. Rogerson, acknow- 
ledging his election as Vice-President; from Mr. F. King, 
with a donation for the Library ; from Mr. Peech, "with a 
second donation for the Library ; from Mr. G. Austin, with 
specimens for the Museum ; and from Mr. Adlard, on behalf 
of Mrs . Percivall, with a donation of a part of the w r orks of the 
late Mr. Percivall for the Library. 
The President stated that he had, in behalf of the Council, 
though without its sanction, w ritten a letter of condolence 
to Mrs. Percivall. 
The letter was ordered to be entered on the minutes. 
Professor Morton proposed a vote of thanks to the donors 
to the library and museum, and to the President for having 
so promptly written to Mrs. Percivall. 
Mr. Mayer seconded the motion, which passed unani- 
mously. 
An engrossment of the lease of the premises, 10, Red Lion 
Square, was then laid before the Council ; and, on the motion 
of Professor Spooner, seconded by Professor Simonds , it was 
resolved that a Committee, consisting of the President and 
two members of Council should be appointed to examine the 
lease, and attach the seal of the College thereto. 
Professors Spooner and Simonds were appointed members 
of the Committee. 
