352 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
H. Withers, Joseph Woodger, Edward Woodger, and Henry 
Wragge. 
In opening the proceedings, The President , after calling 
the attention of the meeting to the chief business of the 
day, directed the notice of the members to a handsome Por- 
trait (suspended in the room, and subscribed for by many of 
the profession) of Mr. Thomas Turner, the first President of 
the College. 
The minutes of the previous annual meeting were read 
and confirmed. 
The Secretary then read the following abstract of the proceed- 
ings of the Council during the past year, and likewise the 
Treasurer’s report. 
Abstract of the Proceedings of the Council of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons, during the Year 1854-5. 
The current of events connected with the proceedings 
of the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 
has flowed on, during the past year, with little or no inter- 
ruption, and although it may not have been swollen by 
events of great importance or marked by extraordinary success, 
still its progress has not been impeded by any untoward 
circumstance, or diverted from its legitimate course — the 
diffusion and advancement of Veterinary Science. 
The residence selected by the Council has been found 
fully to answer all the purposes required. The deliberations 
of the Council and the examinations by the Board, together 
with the perhaps less important but still essential inquiries 
of the various Committees, have been carried out by the 
accommodation now afforded not only without “let or 
hindrance/’ but with a degree of comfort and convenience 
very different from that found in those places wdiich the 
College had hitherto been obliged to have recourse to. Nor 
is this the limit of the advantages of the body corporate 
possessing a “ home” as well as a “ name,” for the Annual 
General Meetings of the profession are held within its walls, 
and the most gratifying proof of its capabilities for all 
required purposes w^as evinced on the occasion of a most 
liberal and spirited Soiree given by our esteemed President, 
Mr. W. Field, at w r hich 150 gentlemen w^ere present, con- 
stituting a reunion of a considerable portion of all that is 
eminent in the medical and collateral sciences. 
The Library and Museum are increasing in value : the 
former contains between 300 and 400 volumes, and the 
latter above 200 specimens, many of them being rare and 
valuable. The list of donors, however, to these collections 
is at present by no means so extensive as could be wished. 
