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THE VETERINARIAN, JUNE 1, 1855. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — 
Cicero. 
THE ANNIVERSARY MEETINGS OE THE ROYAL COLLEGE 
OE VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
We believe that a long time will elapse ere the events con- 
nected with the Anniversary Meetings of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons, held on the 7th of May last, will be 
effaced from the memories of those who were present and 
took part therein. 
The business meeting in the morning, held at the College, 
although not so numerously attended as we hope to see 
succeeding ones, was, nevertheless, among the best that have 
taken place, and during it the utmost cordiality of feeling and 
unity of sentiment prevailed. 
The Report for the past year, which we give in another place, 
will, probably, be read with satisfaction as far as it goes, by 
many of the profession, although there may be few or no 
salient points in it. We regret to see it so meagre, and espe- 
cially as such ample materials for a full and complete report 
were at the disposal of the committee appointed to prepare it. 
The system of crowding the entire proceedings of the Council 
for the year into five or six short paragraphs, is one which has 
been often complained of, and justly so in our opinion, for it 
doubtless tends to the continuance of that apathy which the 
profession, as a body, has evinced in the general concerns of 
the College. Nevertheless, the appeal made to the members, 
with reference to the state of the Library and the Museum, 
will, we doubt not, be liberally responded to, since it is in every 
sense desirable that these departments should be made 
perfectly efficient for their intended purposes. 
In the council-room was hung an admirable likeness, here- 
after to be presented to him, of T. Turner, Esq., first pre- 
