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THR ANNUAL MEETING. 
the past year 200 convictions have been obtained for acts of 
wan on cruelty to animals. Mr. G. Wilks, Mr. G. A. Warre, 
Mr. R. E. Broughton (magistrate of Marylebone Police Court), 
Lord Dudley Stuart, Dr. Carpenter, Mr. G. Raymond, Mr. S. 
Buckingham, and Mr. Mackinnon severally addressed the meet- 
ing in support of the usual resolutions ; which having been una- 
nimously adopted, the proceedings terminated. — The Times, 
May 22 d. 
THE VETERINARIAN, JUNE 1, 1848. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
It gratified us, as they say in Lancashire, “ above a bit,” to 
behold our professional brethren assembled at their anniversary 
meeting in undiminished numbers; it gratified us yet more to find 
ourselves confronted there with such an array of old and esteemed 
friends as we do not remember to have seen since the days when 
Coleman or Cooper annually presided at the “ pupils’ anniversary 
dinner men whose heads had grown hoary in the profession, and 
whose hearts, like the needle, ever true to the north pole, still vibrat- 
ed for the welfare and promotion of veterinary science. The very 
presence of such men was enough to bespeak the feeling of the 
profession ; the circumstance of several of them having travelled 
scores of miles to be present at the meeting must have told daggers 
to the breasts of those who would have been well pleased had the 
general meeting proved a failure, and ended, as it did last year, in 
turbulence, declamation, and quarrelling. But, to the credit and 
honour of the great majority present, there was a totally different 
feeling abroad, — a feeling of unanimity and amity, and a determina- 
tion to put down any attempt at interruption and clamour. There 
might, to be sure, have been picked Out half-a-dozen discontents ; 
but the opposition set up by them proved of so feeble and pithless 
a character, that, seemingly out of consideration for the weakness of 
their cause, reply was mercifully withheld. 
