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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE 
reminder from the Home Office to urge them to prompt measures, 
when difficulties were to be overcome or delays became dangerous. 
The Committee that had furnished the first portion of the reply 
was re-elected, with the addition of Mr. Mayhew ; and a counter- 
report, which was unanimously adopted by the Council, was, with- 
out loss of time, dispatched with the following note to Sir G. 
Grey 
To the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, SfC. 
Sir George, — I have the honour of forwarding a more detailed reply from 
the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons to the points con- 
tained in the petition for, and draft of, a Charter presented by the Governors 
of the Royal Veterinary College of London, in full confidence that it will 
be received with the consideration which the advancement of veterinary 
science, and the interests of the veterinary profession, may be deemed worthy 
to require. 
I have the honour to be, 
Sir George, 
Your most obedient and humble servant, 
Thomas Turner, 
311, Regent-street , President of the Royal College 
April 3, 1848. of Veterinary Surgeons. 
To the Right Honourable Sir George Grey , Bart., Her Majesty s 
Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, the 
Memorial of the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons . 
[As published in The Veterinarian for May of the current year, vol. xxi, 
p. 237-250.] 
The results of all this labour are, it is true, as yet but negative ; 
still they are significant. No new grounds have been broken for a 
fresh Charter — no controversion of the statements given in by your 
Council has been attempted — no renewed application has been 
heard of — no new Charter has been granted. 
A subject of scarcely secondary importance to the one we have 
been narrating, namely, the Registration of the Members of the 
body politic and corporate, has continued to receive the attention 
of the Council. The Registration Committee still continue their 
labours ; and too much praise cannot be given to the indefatigable 
Honorary Secretary thereof, Mr. Arthur Cherry, by whom the whole 
of the details have been collected, and through whose continuous 
exertions alone, the result, as far as it goes, is solely to be attri- 
buted : their Second Report — the First having been given last 
year — is as follows : — 
[The First Report will be found in The Veterinarian, vol. xx, p. 270-273.] 
[The Second Report is published in the March No. of The Veterinarian 
for the present year, vol. xxi, p. 173-174.] 
