ROYAL COLLEGE OP VETERINARY SURGEONS. 353 
Amongst the contributors to the Library are Messrs. Ernes, 
Field, Goodwin, Gabriel, King, Lee, Morton, Peech, Per- 
civall, Simonds, and Solly ; and to the Museum, Messrs. 
Austin, Braby, Dickens, Goodwin, Gabriel, Henderson, 
Lepper, Percivall, and Woodger. May these lists be more 
than quadrupled during the ensuing year, and the collec- 
tions so enriched that they may be worthy of belonging to 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
Eleven deaths have been reported during the year. 
Among them we find the late Principal Veterinary Surgeon 
to the Army, Mr. F. C. Cherry, one of the oldest members 
of the profession, he having passed in 1803. Our late uni- 
versally esteemed and respected Treasurer, Mr. Henderson, 
is another. He was a member of the Committee appointed 
to obtain the Charter, and one of the original Members of 
Council ; the duties of which he most constantly and con- 
scientiously discharged. He was a Vice-President in 1847, 
and for the last four years of his life he filled the respon- 
sible office of Treasurer. The arrangements and fittings up 
of the College were to him subjects of untiring care and 
interest, and since his death his valuable collection of speci- 
mens in Natural History and Pathology has enriched the 
Museum of the College. 
A loss still more generally felt by the profession has been 
the death of Mr. W. Percivall — he also was one of the Com- 
mittee, and an original Member of the Council, as well as of 
the Board of Examiners. The zeal and energy he displayed 
in the earlier progress of the chartered body will not be for- 
gotten by those with whom he co-operated ; nor was it till 
ill health had seriously undermined his constitution that he 
retired from unremitting attention to his duties. It is, how- 
ever, more especially as a Member of the Board of Examiners 
that the want of his valuable assistance will be more seriously 
felt. He filled at that Board the Chair of Equine Anatomy 
and Physiology, the important duties of which he was most 
fully qualified to discharge. Not only had he to make his 
own investigations, but he was constantly appealed to by the 
Medical Examiners at the same table as to the correctness 
of the answers given to their questions on descriptive ana- 
tomy. As an author he is too well known, and his value is 
too generally recognized, to require any eulogium here ; 
suffice it to say, his works comprise the most scientific and 
complete resume of Veterinary Science of the day. The 
vacant seat in the Board of Examiners occasioned by the 
death of Mr. W. Percivall, has been filled up by the election 
of Mr. W. Field. 
