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NOTICE OF MEETINGS 
The “ reply” the projected charter has called forth from our 
council, couched as it is in the form of a “ memorial” to the Home 
Secretary, is a temperate, firm, veracious document. It has met 
allegations and assertions in the charter as they presented them- 
selves ; nor has it needed, in refutation of such as have not been 
“ explained and refuted” over and over again before, any weapons 
save those of plain fact and simple truth. Every point in the 
charter has been turned by the reply. It has not left a single 
plea — no, not even the plea of expediency , for granting a veteri- 
nary charter in addition to, or as a substitute for, the one already 
vouchsafed us by our Most Gracious Majesty. And therefore, 
if perchance it should so turn out that, through some strange 
official inconsonancy, another charter be conceded, it will be to 
serve the purposes of the private schools miscalled “ colleges.” It 
can have — after what has been stated in the present reply to the 
proposed charter, and in the former reply of the Council to the 
“ objections” to our charter — no pretensions whatever to serving 
either the cause of the profession of veterinary surgeons or that of 
veterinary medicine in Britain : both these great ends being al- 
ready served, so far as, in the present condition of affairs, they can 
be served, through the approved Royal Charter of Incorporation 
now in operation amongst us. 
Notice of Professional Meetings for 1848. 
The Quarterly Council Meetings are fixed for March 29th, 
June 28th, October 4th, December 27th. 
The General Meeting will take place on the first Monday in 
May. 
*** Members of the profession are admitted to all meetings of 
Council by sending to the President for the time being, at the time 
of sitting, their names and addresses. As visitors, however, they 
can take no part in the discussions. 
