ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 305 
The appointment, under the sanction of the Council, of a num- 
ber of Corresponding Members, is a measure which has produced 
the most valuable results ; not only inasmuch as it has spread a very 
considerable esprit de corps among our country brethren, but as 
having produced also a considerable amount of local information 
and personal detail, which could only have been procured on the 
spot, and, even there, by those alone who were well versed in the 
matter, and had ability and inclination to investigate the actual 
state of affairs. 
The Third and last, which has just been delivered, gives the 
result of their labours, and prepares you to receive the first List 
of the Members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 
which is this day laid before you. 
[The Third Report from the Registration Committee was published in our 
No. for last month, vol. xxi, p. 294-295.] 
The veterinary profession is neither a very large nor a very 
influential body ; others much larger and more influential have not 
deemed it unwise to seek the aid of rank, wealth, and science, to 
extend and embellish their achievements ; — why should not we 
follow their example! Your Council, after a deliberate considera- 
tion of the subject, could see no reason to prevent it ; and the fol- 
lowing order in Council was passed : — 
“ That, for the purpose of further raising and extending the welfare and 
dignity of the veterinary profession, it is desirable that certain honorary 
appointments be created in connexion therewith ; such appointments to com- 
prise a Patron, twelve Vice- Patrons, and a proportionate number of Honorary 
Associates; the parties so elected not, however, to be deemed members of 
the body politic and corporate.” 
It is to the aristocracy of the country we look for patronage — 
to the wealth of our princely merchants for remuneration and re- 
ward — to the aid of science to extend our utility — and to literature 
to record our improvements, and to herald forth the fact that we 
have not been idle in our day, nor fallen off in our attainments. 
Why, then, should not one and all be combined amongst us! Why 
should the genial influence of rank, wealth, and talent, be shunned 
by a professional body which despise concealment, even when by 
so doing their errors may be proclaimed, because they feel they 
have endeavoured to do their duty in that station of life in which 
their vocation places them ! and which therefore court, without 
presumption on the one hand or sycophancy on the other, the 
inquiry, the investigation, and, after these, the friendly co-operation 
of those installed above and around them. 
It does occasionally happen in your Council, that, when some 
individual on particular occasions exerts himself more than his 
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