354 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
By the Register it will be found that 32 pupils have re- 
ceived their diplomas during the year, making the total 
number who have passed the Board of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons, since the obtainment of the Charter, 
512. A new register has been issued during the year, cor- 
rected up to the 1st of June, and which w 7 ill, it is believed, 
be found to be as correct as the ever varying circumstances 
connected with fresh admissions, deaths, and changes of 
residences render possible. The Registrar has still to beg 
the favour of any error or change being notified to him, in 
order to its immediate correction. 
The finance department, if not flourishing, is at least 
satisfactory. The balance in hand of last year is increased, 
although but slightly, and this, considering that the extra 
expenses of completing the lease, the disbursement of the 
lawyer’s accounts, and the cost of the reissue of the Register, 
amounting together to between £70 and £80, had to be 
met, and the current expenses of the year up to the present 
date to be liquidated, will not be considered as unpromising 
for the future. The balance in hand, as shown by the an- 
nexed balance sheet, is £150 7 s. 5d. 
No further steps have been taken during the past year as 
to the obtaining of a bill of exemptions or prohibitions. 
But the appointments to Her Majesty’s and the Honorable 
East India Company’s Services have been watched with 
unremitting care, and it is still hoped that the boon so 
justly contended for by the profession, of having none but 
members of the body corporate appointed to those important 
positions, will ultimately be obtained. 
In conclusion, your Council have to state that if their pro- 
ceedings lack that spirit of novelty and excitement which at 
one period distinguished them, the want is more than 
compensated for by the cause producing it, namely, that 
unanimity of feeling and singleness of purpose which recog- 
nize no other object than the advancement of the profession. 
Should the list of contributors to the Library and Museum 
increase ; should the contents of these departments be found 
worthy of the approval and support of the profession, and 
should the attention of the members, through their media, 
be more directed to investigation and research, no trifling 
good will have been accomplished ; and the u local habita- 
tion ” so long desired being now 7 established, may it be so 
freely and unreservedly made use of by every individual 
member of the profession, that its absence would be felt to 
be a blank in the Veterinary commonwealth. 
E. N. Gabriel, Secretary . 
