726 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Mr . Ernes thought the fee should be reduced in favour of 
the London School apart from any other consideration. 
Mr. Hatten believed Professor Dick’s request a reasonable 
one, and that in declining to comply with it, the Council 
would be putting itself in a wrong position. 
Mr. Dickens despaired of any satisfactory arrangement 
being made with Professor Dick, who had taken five weeks 
to answer the Secretary’s letter. 
Mr. Robinson said Professor Dick was indebted to the 
Highland Agricultural Society for his present board, and no 
change could be made without their sanction. 
Professor Simonds thought the Council had committed an 
oversight in not authorising Professor Dick to lay the subject 
before the Society. 
Mr. Stockley urged that the Council ought not to succumb 
to any individual. 
Mr. Gabriel , believing that the reduction of the fee would 
be of little benefit to the pupil, while it would greatly affect 
the income of the College, should strenuously oppose it. 
Professor Morton supported the confirmation of the minutes 
on the ground that there would then be something definite 
to lay before the Highland Agricultural Society. 
The motion for the confirmation of the minutes was then 
put, and the result was : for the motion, 4 ; against, 6 ; 
majority against, 2. 
The motion was consequently lost. 
The Special Meeting then terminated. 
At the Quarterly Meeting — 
Mr. Robinson presented to the Council a portrait of Mr. 
Thomas Turner, the first President of the College. He said he 
was delighted to be a member of the committee appointed to do 
honour to the first President, but he wished the task of pre- 
senting the portrait had devolved on some other member of 
that committee. Mr. Turner’s excellent qualities, however, 
were well known, as were the eminent services which he had 
rendered to the profession in procuring the charter. So highly 
were those services appreciated, that it was resolved to pre- 
sent his portrait to the College, and he had great pleasure in 
offering it to the Council for acceptance. 
The President , in acknowledging the receipt of the portrait, 
fully concurred in the feelings expressed by Mr. Robinson. 
The Treasurer laid before the Council the Quarterly report. 
The balance in hand last quarter, £410 155. 4 d.\ received 
for copies of register, 1 7^- ; total, £411 12 s. Ad. Expenses, 
£42 3s. 7 d. Balance in hand, £369 85. 9 d. 
The Quarterly Balance-sheet was, on the motion of Mr. 
